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Public preview: Change performance tiers for Premium SSD managed disks with no downtime
Premium SSD managed disks now enables you change performance tiers without any downtime to your applications.
Public preview: Automatic key rotation of customer-managed keys for encrypting Azure managed disks
Azure Disk Storage now enables you to automatically update keys for encryption of your data.
General availability: Encrypted customer managed keys policy for AKS
Setup policy to audit usage of customer managed keys on OS and data disks.
On-demand disk bursting for Premium SSDs now in public preview
On-demand disk bursting is available in preview for Premium SSDs, allowing you to scale performance to meet demand whenever needed and optimize costs.
Azure Monitor Alerts for Azure Backup is in public preview
Manage your backup-related alert lifecycles in a manner that is consistent with native Azure management principles
January 2021
General availability: Azure HDInsight extends capabilities for encryption of data in transit and at rest
Azure HDInsight Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) encryption in transit is now generally available. HDInsight also supports version-less keys for customer-managed key (CMK) encryption at rest.
Backup for Azure Managed Disk is in limited preview
Target availability: Q1 2021
Azure Backup offers snapshot lifecycle management to Azure Managed Disk by automating periodic creation of snapshot and retain it for configured duration using Backup policy.
November 2020
Azure Shared Image Gallery--New features are now generally available
Shared Image Gallery introduces new features to copy image versions, use disks or VMs to create image versions, and export a managed from an image version.
Azure Site Recovery - Support for increased disk size in Azure VM disaster recovery
Protect Azure VMs with increased disk sizes.
HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes with Premium Data Lake Storage Gen2 is now generally available
With Premium Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 support for accelerated writes HDInsight HBase cluster, customers can now have increased read performance compared to standard storage and also take advantage of Hierarchical namespace feature of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
October 2020
New Azure Batch capabilities available in preview
A number of new security-related features are now available in preview.
Public preview: Service Fabric managed clusters
Service Fabric managed clusters reduce complexity and issues associated with managing a cluster made up of multiple resources.
September 2020
Azure DevTest Labs: Encrypt OS disks in your lab
Protect your labs data and data stored on managed disks while resting assured that you are hitting your organization's security and compliance benchmarks with Server-Side Encryption.
New performance recommendations now available in Azure Advisor
Review new Azure Advisor recommendations to help you achieve better performance.
Azure Backup support for up to 32 disks is now generally available
Azure Backup now supports Azure Virtual Machines with up to 32 attached managed disks.
Export and import securely to Azure Disk Storage with Azure Private Links integration (GA)
Azure Disk Storage now enables enhanced security options for export and import via integration with Azure Private Links
August 2020
Public preview: CSI storage driver support in Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Container Storage Interface (CSI), a standard for exposing arbitrary block and file storage systems to containerised workloads on Kubernetes. This offers more flexibility in exposing storage systems in Kubernetes.
Azure Data Box Disk is now generally available in South Africa and China
The Microsoft Azure Data Box Disk solution lets you send terabytes of on-premises data to Azure in a quick, inexpensive and reliable way.
Improvements to Azure VM backups are now available
Azure Backup now supports restoring unmanaged VMs/Disks as Managed Disks, backup for Virtual Machine Scale Sets, and allows replacing existing disks for VMs with Managed Service Identity
July 2020
SR-IOV availability on InfiniBand-equipped Virtual Machines
We will be enabling support for all MPI implementations and RDMA verbs for InfiniBand-equipped virtual machines. This greatly increases ability and options for leveraging InfiniBand for your workloads.
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