Azure Blob Storage

I am happy to announce that High-Throughput Block Blob (HTBB) is globally enabled in Azure Blob Storage.

Data sets have unique lifecycles. Some data is accessed often early in the lifecycle, but the need for access drops drastically as the data ages.

As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption and increasingly deploy performance sensitive cloud-native applications, we are excited to announce general availability of Azure Premium Blob Storage.

Scaling out read workloads in Azure Database for MySQL; Secure server access with VNet service endpoints for Azure Database for MariaDB; Announcing new capabilities in Azure Firewall; and much more.

Today we are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Premium Blob Storage. Premium Block Blob is a new performance tier in Azure Blob Storage, complimenting the existing Hot, Cool, and Archive tiers.

Analytics in Azure is up to 14x faster and costs 94% less than other cloud providers; Announcing updates to 3 great Azure Data services; Azure Cost Management now GA for EA customers; and more.

Today we are excited to share the preview for account failover for customers with geo-redundant storage (GRS) enabled storage accounts.

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of static websites on Azure Storage, which is now available in all public cloud regions.

Premium Blob Storage, which is currently in limited public preview, unlocks a new level of performance in public cloud object storage. It uses a combination of solid-state drives in our storage clusters and enhancements to our blob storage software to provide very fast response times.

We are very excited to announce the general availability of Avere vFXT for Azure. This culminates months of effort beginning when Microsoft welcomed Avere to the Azure family earlier this year.

In this blog, we introduce how to post Azure Storage analytics logs to Azure Log Analytics workspace, thus you can use these great features to operate Azure Storage resources better.

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