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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.
November 2023
TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage
Target availability: Q4 2024
TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage
August 2023
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier is an online tier specifically designed for efficiently storing data that is infrequently accessed or modified, all while ensuring immediate availability.
July 2023
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Sweden Central
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
May 2023
Public preview: Azure Cold Storage
Target availability: Q2 2023
Azure Cold Storage, as the most cost-effective access tier with near real-time read latency for infrequently accessed unstructured data is available for public preview.
April 2023
Generally available: Cross-region service endpoints for Azure Storage
You can now connect Storage Accounts to Virtual Networks in all regions using global service endpoints (cross-region service endpoints).
March 2023
Generally available: Encryption scopes on hierarchical namespace enabled storage accounts
You can now use separate encryption keys for each customer in a single hierarchical namespace enabled storage account.
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in West US 3
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
September 2022
Generally available: Resource instance rules for access to Azure Storage
Resource instance rules enable secure connectivity to Azure Storage by only allowing access from specific resources of select Azure services.
July 2022
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in South Africa North
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
May 2022
General availability: Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 using Azure Portal
Migrate your data from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 to speed up your time to insights
April 2022
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Switzerland North
Reduce spending by storing cold data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
March 2022
Generally available: Access time-based lifecycle management rules for Data Lake Storage Gen2
Access time tracking for objects and lifecycle management policies based on last accessed time in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
December 2021
Soft delete for blobs capability for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available
If you have processes or tools to detect accidental deletion of files and directories for your Azure Data Lake Storage accounts, you can now also restore the deleted objects using soft delete for blobs capability. During the retention period that you specify, you can now restore a soft-deleted object to its state at the time it was deleted.
Azure Storage: Secure access to storage account from a virtual network/subnet in any region now in public preview
This preview enables secure access to your storage account by configuring virtual network rules in the storage firewall that allow access from subnets in any Azure region of your choice.
Azure Storage: Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) conditions with principal attributes now in public preview
Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) is an authorization mechanism that defines access levels based on attributes associated with security principals, resources, requests or the environment. You can now use Azure AD custom security attributes for principals in role assignment conditions for Azure Storage, along with resource and request attributes.
November 2021
SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage - now in public preview
Azure Blob Storage is the only storage platform that supports SFTP over object storage natively in a serverless fashion, enabling you leverage object storage economics and features with legacy workloads that use SFTP.
September 2021
General availability: Enable hierarchical namespace for existing Azure Storage accounts
Target availability: Q4 2021
Accelerating value through data analytics by enabling the Azure Data Lake Storage hierarchical namespace for existing Azure Storage accounts is now generally available. The benefits of the ADLS hierarchical namespace in providing enhanced performance and features that are dedicated to maximizing the value of data analytics is well established. You can now get this benefit for existing accounts and data by enabling the hierarchical namespace in place.
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in three new regions: Norway East, UAE North, and Germany West Central
Reduce spending by storing cold data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
August 2021
General availability: Azure Archive Storage events for easy rehydration of archived blobs
React to rehydration events on Azure Archive Storage with Azure Event Grid.
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