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RSS feedJuly 2022
Public preview: Azure Synapse Analytics Spark elastic pool storage
Reduce job failures by using elastic pool storage.
Generally available: Virtual machine restore points
For customers and Azure partners who are looking to build business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, VM restore points provide a feature rich building blocks available natively on Azure platform.
Public preview: Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
Premium SSD v2 is the next generation Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. Provision the IOPS and throughput you need without necessarily purchasing additional storage capacity.
Public preview: Azure Active Directory authentication for exporting and importing Managed Disks
Improve security with the new integration to Azure Active Directory (AD) used to export and import data to Azure Managed Disks.
Public preview: Container Insights now supports Windows Server 2022
Container Insights now supports the Windows Server 2022 operating system.
Public preview: Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines
Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads.
June 2022
Public preview: SMB Continuous Availability shares for Citrix App Layering
New feature added to Azure NetApp Files.
Public preview: Network Watcher packet capture support for virtual machine scale sets
Azure Network Watcher packet capture announces support for virtual machines scale sets. This is as an out of the box, on-demand capability, enabling faster diagnostics and troubleshooting of networking issues.
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution
Optimise and scale storage for Azure VMware Solution environments.
General availability: Trusted launch support for virtual machines using Ephemeral OS disks
Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure.
General availability: Storage optimized Azure VMs deliver higher performance for data analytics
The new Lasv3 and Lsv3 VM series are well suited for high throughput and high IOPS workloads including big data applications, SQL and NoSQL databases, data intensive applications and more.
May 2022
Generally available Azure Ebsv5 now available in 13 additional regions
Azure Virtual Machines Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 are now available in 13 additional regions.
General availability: Azure Backup supports backup of Write Accelerator enabled disks
Target availability: Q2 2022
Azure Virtual Machine backup protects Write Accelerator enabled disks
Public preview: Azure Disk CSI driver v2 in AKS
Improve scalability and reduce pod failover latency by using Azure Disk CSI driver v2 in AKS.
Public preview: Container Storage Interface extensible API for AKS
You can now disable and enable any of the AKS supported CSI drivers using this API.
April 2022
Generally available: Azure Virtual Machines increase storage throughput by up to 300%
Microsoft is announcing the general availability of the Ebs/Ebds v5 memory optimized Azure VM series, that deliver up to 300% increase in remote storage performance compared to prior generation VMs.
March 2022
Generally available: Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage
Cross-region snapshot copy allows you to copy disk snapshots to any region for disaster recovery.
General availability: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Sweden Central
Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.
Public preview: Trusted launch support for Virtual Machines using Ephemeral OS disks
Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure.
February 2022
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files - application consistent snapshot tool v5.1
Application consistent snapshot tool is a command-line tool for simplifying data protection for third-party databases in Linux environments.
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