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February 2024

Feb 20

General Availability: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes GA

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Feb 20

Public Preview: Azure Storage Actions — Serverless storage data management

IN PREVIEW

Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management tasks for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Premium Blob Storage
  • Management
  • Features
Feb 19

Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features
Feb 19

Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features
Feb 14

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Change Feed and Object Replication

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Blob Change Feed and Object Replication now support Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier.

  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Features
Feb 13

Azure Elastic SAN is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Elastic SAN is now generally available, the industry’s first fully managed and cloud-native SAN offering that simplifies deploying, scaling, managing, and configuring a SAN in the cloud.

  • Azure Elastic SAN
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Feb 12

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in Canada Central

NOW AVAILABLE

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in the Canada Central region.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Feb 6

Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes in US Gov Regions

IN PREVIEW

Azure NetApp Files in US Gov region now supports ability to edit existing ANF volumes and upgrading Basic network features to Standard network features.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Feb 5

Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Canada East

NOW AVAILABLE

Now available in Canada East region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.

  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

January 2024

Jan 31

Generally Available: Support for Cross Region Restore for PostgreSQL backups

Cross region for Backup vault using Azure Backup is now generally available.

  • Azure Backup
  • Management
  • Features
Jan 30

Public Preview: Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions

IN PREVIEW

Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions

  • Azure Backup
  • Management
Jan 11

General Availability: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure NetApp Files volumes supports encryption with customer-managed keys (CMK), using Azure Key Vault for key storage, to enable an extra layer of security for data at rest.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Jan 10

General Availability: Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks support with Trusted launch

NOW AVAILABLE

Trusted launch VMs now support Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks storage.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features
Jan 8

Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in UK West and Poland Central

NOW AVAILABLE

Now available in the UK West and Poland Central regions, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.

  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Jan 8

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in the West US3 and Germany West Central regions.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

December 2023

Dec 18

Generally available: Crash Consistent VM Restore points

NOW AVAILABLE

For Azure partners and customers seeking to develop business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, crash-consistent VM restore points serve as feature-rich building blocks, offering an agentless solution available natively on the Azure platform.

  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

November 2023

Nov 29

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools

IN PREVIEW

Azure NetApp Files 1 TiB capacity pool sizes, when used with volumes using standard network features is now in preview.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
Nov 29

General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 2 TiB capacity pools

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 2 TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 4 TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
Nov 22

General Availability - Azure Backup for AKS

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Backup is announcing General Availability of Azure Backup for AKS allowing customers to protect their applications by providing ability to backup and restore AKS clusters.

  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Nov 21

General Availability: User and group quota management in Azure NetApp Files

NOW AVAILABLE

Default and individual user/group quotas allows you to stay in control of capacity consumption on volumes; the feature is now Generally Available (GA)

  • Azure NetApp Files
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

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