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Preview: New Features in Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage is a fully managed volume orchestration service built natively for containers. New capabilities include support for Temp SSD, simplified installation via AKS CLI, and scalable storage for cost-efficient workload management.
Announcing Avere vFXT for Azure Retirement
Target retirement date: October 01, 2025
Avere vFXT for Azure is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025.
Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage
Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0.
February 2024
General availability: Customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches
Target availability: Q1 2024
Encrypt Redis persistence files using customer managed keys.
January 2024
General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Customer-managed keys (CMK)
Target availability: Q1 2024
Customer-managed keys allow you to use your own key for cluster data encryption at rest.
December 2023
Generally available: Crash Consistent VM Restore points
For Azure partners and customers seeking to develop business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, crash-consistent VM restore points serve as feature-rich building blocks, offering an agentless solution available natively on the Azure platform.
November 2023
General Availability - Azure Backup for AKS
Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of Azure Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.
GA: Ultra Disk performance updates
Azure Ultra Disk Storage now provides maximum throughput of up to 10 GBps and IOPS of up to 400K IOPS per disk.
Public preview: Confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs
Confidential temp disk encryption is now available for all confidential VMs.
Announcing the public preview of Azure confidential VMs with Intel TDX
Microsoft is excited to announce the public preview of DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential VMs. These VMs are powered by 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). They enable organizations to bring confidential workloads to the cloud without code changes to applications and will be available starting December 1st.
Public Preview: Enhanced performance and scalability in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Target availability: Q4 2023
Benefit from the enhanced performance and scalability of Azure Database for PostgreSQL to improve mission-critical workloads.
General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Target availability: Q4 2023
Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore offers a fully-managed database for your MongoDB workloads and AI applications, backed by native Azure integrations, flexible pricing, and seamless migration capabilities.
Preview: Azure Container Storage in AKS
You can now easily deploy and use Azure Container Storage (in preview) seamlessly via the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) preview CLI experience.
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance
October 2023
GA: Bring our own keys (BYOK) on Ephemeral OS Disk
You can now encrypt OS and Data disks of your AKS nodes in production with your own managed keys.
September 2023
Azure CycleCloud support for automatic configuration of LVM for Azure CycleCloud volume mounts will be retired on 30 September 2024
Target retirement date: October 01, 2024
Community support for Automatic configuration of LVM for Azure CycleCloud volume mounts is ending on 30 September 2024
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance
August 2023
Generally available: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines
Cross Subscription Restore support for Azure VM is generally available.
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance.
July 2023
Public preview: Bring your own key on Ephemeral OS disk for AKS
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now use your own keys to encrypt your ephemeral OS disks.
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