Azure updates

Generally available: Simpler way to renaming Network Interface (NIC) and Disks for protected VMs in Azure Site Recovery

This article describes a new feature update for Azure Site Recovery. 

• Management
• Features

Public Preview: Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage

Boost Azure Disk Storage IOPS and throughput with Performance Plus

• Azure Disk Storage
• Features

Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Brazil Southeast, South Africa North and UAE North

Now available in Brazil Southeast, South Africa North and UAE North region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most demanding workloads

• Azure Disk Storage
• Regions & Datacenters

Public Preview: Selective Disk Backup and Restore in Enhanced Policy for Azure VM Backup

Target availability: Q1 2023

We are adding the “Selective Disk Backup and Restore” capability in Enhanced Policy of Azure VM Backup.

• Azure Backup
• Virtual Machines
• Features

General availability: Ephemeral OS disks supports encryption at host using customer managed keys

Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for encryption at host.

• Virtual Machines
• Managed Disks
• Features

Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in the China North 3 Azure region

Now available in the China North 3 Azure region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most demanding workloads.

• Azure Disk Storage
• Regions & Datacenters

More transactions at no additional cost for Azure Standard SSD

Save money on billable transactions as we waive transaction fees for Azure Standard SSD customers that exceed the maximum hourly limit.

• Pricing & Offerings
• Features

Disclosure: In-tree disk and file drivers will no longer be supported starting in Kubernetes v1.26

Migrate your existing in-tree disk and file volumes to CSI drivers using provided guidance.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

Generally available: 4 TiB, 8 TiB, and 16 TiB storage per node for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Onboard even larger distributed Postgres workloads to Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL with fewer nodes using 4 TiB, 8 TiB, or 16 TiB storage per node.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

GA: Online live resize of persistent volumes

Scale up persistent volumes without taking the application offline.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features

GA: Create disks from CMK-encrypted snapshots across subscriptions and in the same tenant

To ease manageability, we are making disks encrypted with customer-managed keys (CMK) more flexible by allowing creation of disks and snapshots from CMK-encrypted source across subscriptions. 

• Security
• Features

Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre

Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system

• Azure HPC Cache
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Machine Learning
• Azure Blob Storage
• Pricing & Offerings

Read-write premium caching now in public preview

Now you can do more with Azure HPC Cache at the same cost you’ve come to expect.

• Azure HPC Cache
• Pricing & Offerings

General availability: Encryption using CMK for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Use infrastructure encryption to add an additional layer of encryption for data at rest using customer-managed keys.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Regions & Datacenters
• Open Source
• Features

Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Switzerland North and Korea South

Now available in Korea South and Switzerland North region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most demanding workloads.

• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

General Availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for exporting and importing Managed Disks

New integration with Azure Active Directory (AD) to export and import data to Azure Managed Disks improves security

• Features

General availability: Encryption using CMK for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

Use infrastructure encryption to add an additional layer of encryption for data at rest using customer-managed keys.

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Features