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General Availability: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes
Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes GA
Public Preview: Azure Storage Actions — Serverless storage data management
Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management tasks for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage.
Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup
General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.
Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup
General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Change Feed and Object Replication
Azure Blob Change Feed and Object Replication now support Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier.
Azure Elastic SAN is now generally 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.
Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in Canada Central
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in the Canada Central region.
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features - Edit Volumes in US Gov Regions
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 Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Canada East
Now available in Canada East region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.
January 2024
Generally Available: Support for Cross Region Restore for PostgreSQL backups
Cross region for Backup vault using Azure Backup is now generally available.
Public Preview: Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions
Azure Business Continuity Center is now available in all regions
General Availability: Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption
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.
General Availability: Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks support with Trusted launch
Trusted launch VMs now support Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks storage.
Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in UK West and Poland Central
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.
Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions
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.
December 2023
Generally available: Crash Consistent VM Restore points
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.
November 2023
Public preview: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools
Azure NetApp Files 1 TiB capacity pool sizes, when used with volumes using standard network features is now in preview.
General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 2 TiB capacity pools
Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 2 TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 4 TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.
General Availability - Azure Backup for AKS
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.
General Availability: User and group quota management in Azure NetApp Files
Default and individual user/group quotas allows you to stay in control of capacity consumption on volumes; the feature is now Generally Available (GA)
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