Azure roadmap
As Azure continues to grow, we want to keep you informed—so that we can plan for the future together. This product roadmap is the place to find out what’s new and what’s coming next. Let us know what you think by providing feedback and voting on items. You can also subscribe to notifications, so you’ll always be the in the know.
Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Storage and Azure SQL
Date updated: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Virtual network service endpoints will allow you to secure Azure Storage accounts and Azure SQL DBs to your virtual network, fully removing public internet access to these resources.
Azure SQL Database new performance levels and storage add-ons
Date updated: Tuesday, September 19, 2017
New performance levels and storage add-ons in Azure SQL Database are now in preview.
Azure archive blob storage and blob-level tiering
Date updated: Thursday, August 24, 2017
Azure Archive Blob storage provides a cold storage option for customers interested in lowering their storage costs for rarely accessed data. Archive Blob storage exists alongside the Hot and Cool Storage tiers and provides 256-bit at rest Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption for archived data.
Storage Service Encryption for Azure File Storage
Date updated: Thursday, May 18, 2017
Azure File Storage now offers encryption at rest, allowing you to reduce costs and increase security.
Azure Archive Storage—a low-cost cloud storage option
Date updated: Monday, May 15, 2017
Azure Archive Storage will be a low-cost cloud storage option for data that's archived and rarely accessed.
L-Series storage-optimized virtual machines
Date updated: Wednesday, May 31, 2017
L-Series virtual machines will be optimized for storage-intensive workloads and offer four new virtual machine sizes. These range from 4-cores, 32-GiB of memory, and 678-GB of fast local SSD, scaling up to 32-cores with 256-GiB of memory and more than 5.6-TB of local SSD.
Azure Storage—larger block blobs
Date updated: Monday, May 15, 2017
Larger block blobs will soon be generally available, increasing the maximum file size from 195-GB to 4.77-TB.
Azure Storage Service Encryption (SSE) support for Managed Disks
Date updated: Thursday, June 15, 2017
Azure Storage Service Encryption (SSE) is now supported for Managed Disks. SSE provides encryption-at-rest and safeguards your data to meet your organizational security and compliance commitments.
Load files from Azure Blob storage into Azure SQL Database
Date updated: Monday, May 15, 2017
Azure SQL Database will enable you to directly load files stored in Azure Blob storage by using specific SQL statements.
Azure SQL DB—More storage for Premium elastic pools
Date updated: Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Storage limits for the largest Premium elastic pools in Azure SQL Database will soon increase from 750-gigabytes (GB) to as much as 4-terabytes (TB).