Azure Files: More performance, more control, more value for your file dataÂ
We’re excited to share a wave of exciting new enhancements to Azure Files and Azure File Sync, designed to simplify how you manage and access your file data.
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Learn more about what’s new with Microsoft Azure Storage at KubeCon Europe 2025
Wow, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London was a fantastic time! Our Azure Storage team was thrilled to exchange insights and success stories at this vibrant community event. If you missed it, don’t worry!
Azure Storage—A look back and a look forward
Microsoft has been at the forefront of groundbreaking AI solutions, empowering end customers, developers and IT Professionals in the cloud while accelerating enterprise migrations to Azure.
Maximize your business potential: Migrate your Windows Server to Azure with expert resources
Learn what’s coming next in Windows Server 2025, get best practices for security and identity, and hear tips for cloud migration and hybrid cloud management.
Reflecting on 2023—Azure Storage
2023 was an emblematic year of growth for storage and data services with AI at the top of mind for many customers. Azure customers’ overall data estate continued to grow, powered by the emergence of new workloads and access patterns.
What’s new with Azure Files
In this blog we will talk about how SAP ECS uses Azure Files NFS shares as part of their default deployment and we’ll also announce some of the big NFS feature we’ve been working over the past year including: new 99.
Migrating your files to Azure has never been easier
Today we are announcing the Azure File Migration Program which gives customers and partners in our Solution Integrator and Service Provider ecosystem, access to industry-leading file migration solutions from Komprise and Data Dynamics—at no cost.
Updates to Azure Files: NFS v4.1, higher performance limits, and reserved instance pricing
Azure Files offers fully managed, simple, secure, and serverless enterprise-grade cloud file shares. On the Azure Files team, our mission is to expand Azure Files to more platforms and workloads.
Premium files redefine limits for Azure Files
Today, we are excited to share that Azure Premium Files preview is now available to everyone! Premium files is a new performance tier that unlocks the next level of performance for fully managed file services in the cloud, while also empowering developers and IT pros.
A new era for Azure Files: Bigger, faster, better!
Azure Files is the only public cloud file storage that delivers secure, Server Message Block (SMB) based, fully managed cloud file shares that can also be cached on-premises for performance and compatibility.
Score one for the IT Pro: Azure File Sync is now generally available!
Azure File Sync replicates files from your on-premises Windows Server to an Azure file share.
Announcing the general availability of Azure Files share snapshot
It has been an exciting last few months since we announced the public preview of Azure Files share snapshot as we see our customers experiencing out-of-the-box snapshot capabilities for their Azure file shares.