{"id":39473,"date":"2025-04-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-08T08:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:27:04","slug":"learn-more-about-whats-new-with-microsoft-azure-storage-at-kubecon-europe-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/learn-more-about-whats-new-with-microsoft-azure-storage-at-kubecon-europe-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn more about what’s new with Microsoft Azure Storage at KubeCon Europe 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\u2019t worry! We are here to share what we showed off at the con: how we are enhancing performance, cost-efficiency, and AI capabilities for your<\/em> workloads on Azure<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Optimize your open-source databases with Azure Disks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Open-source databases such as PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and MySQL are among the most commonly deployed stateful workloads on Kubernetes. For scenarios that demand extremely low latency and high input\/output operations per second (IOPS)\u2014such as running these databases for transactional workloads\u2014Azure Container Storage<\/a> enables you to tap into local ephemeral non-volative memory express (NVMe) drives<\/a> within your node pool. This provides sub-millisecond latency and up to half a million IOPS, making it a strong fit for performance-critical use cases. In our upcoming v1.3.0 update, we have made significant optimizations specifically for databases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compared to the previous v1.2.0 version, you can expect up to a 5 times increase in transactions per second (TPS) for PostgreSQL and MySQL deployments. If you\u2019re looking for the best balance of durability, performance, and cost for storage, Premium SSD v2 disks<\/a> remains our recommended default for database workloads. Premium SSD v2 offers a flexible pricing model that charges per gigabyte and includes generous baseline IOPS and throughput for free out of the box. You can dynamically scale IOPS and throughput as needed, allowing you to fine-tune performance while optimizing for price-efficiency.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At KubeCon, we demonstrated how developers could readily take advantage of local NVMe and Premium SSD v2 Disks to build their highly available and performant PostgreSQL deployments. If you want to follow along yourself, check out the newly republished PostgreSQL on AKS documentation below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Deploy PostgreSQL on AKS<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Accelerate your AI workflows with Azure Blob Storage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Building an AI workflow demands scalable storage to host massive amounts of data\u2014whether it\u2019s raw sensor logs, high-resolution images, or multi-terabyte model checkpoints. Azure Blob Storage<\/a> and BlobFuse2 with the Container Storage Interface<\/a> (CSI) driver provide a seamless way to store and retrieve this data at scale. With BlobFuse2<\/a>, you access blob storage just as a persistent volume, treating it like a local file system. With the latest version of Blobfuse2 – 2.4.1<\/strong>, you can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n