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August 2020

Aug 18

Azure Blob – Soft Delete for Containers public preview

IN PREVIEW

Soft delete for containers expands upon Azure Blob Storage’s existing capabilities such as soft delete for blobs, account delete locking, and immutable blobs, making our data protection and restore capabilities even better.

  • Premium Blob Storage
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Archive Storage
  • Features

July 2020

Jul 31

Azure Data Lake Storage lifecycle management is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Lifecycle management for Azure Data Lake Storage provides an automated solution for tiering down infrequently used data to cooler tiers, allowing you to easily optimize your data for both performance and cost.

  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Management
  • Features

June 2020

Jun 30

Azure Data Lake Storage archive tier is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

The archive tier for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available. The archive tier provides an ultra-low cost tier for long term retention of data while keeping your data available for future analytics needs.

  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Features

May 2020

May 15

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 PowerShell and CLI are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Use PowerShell and Azure CLI filesystem semantics for operations on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 filesystems, directories and files.

  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • SDK and Tools
May 14

Azure Private Link is now generally available in US Government regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in GA.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Virtual Network
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Database for MariaDB
  • Key Vault
  • Backup Server
  • Azure AI Search
  • Event Hubs
  • Service Bus
  • Event Grid
  • Azure Container Registry
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Security
  • Services
  • Compliance
May 11

Premium tier for Azure Data Lake Storage now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Data Lake Storage has a new tier called Premium, offering significantly lower latencies, and cost savings for transaction heavy workloads.

  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Services
  • Features

April 2020

Apr 29

Query Acceleration for Azure Data Lake Storage now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Date Lake Storage (ADLS) now supports Query acceleration, which optimizes cost and performance for your big data applications.

  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Features
Apr 24

Query Acceleration for Azure Data Lake Storage now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Date Lake Storage (ADLS) now supports Query acceleration, which optimizes cost and performance for your big data applications.

  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Features
Apr 7

Storage Analytics logs for Azure Data Lake Storage are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Diagnosing Azure Data Lake Storage just got easier with Storage Analytics logs.

  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Features

March 2020

Mar 27

Filesystem SDKs for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Python, .NET, Java, and JS filesystem SDKs are now generally available in all Azure regions.

  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • SDK and Tools
Mar 16

Announcing Azure Private Link GA for Azure Services

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in Preview and GA.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Virtual Network
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Storage Accounts
  • Key Vault
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Database for MariaDB
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Event Hubs
  • Service Bus
  • App Service
  • Event Grid
  • Azure Container Registry
  • App Configuration
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Azure AI Search
  • Security
  • Services
  • Compliance

December 2019

Dec 12

Azure Data Factory supports preserving metadata during file copy

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory copy activity now supports preserving metadata during file copy among Amazon S3, Azure Blob, and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Features

November 2019

Nov 4

Azure Private Link is now available in all regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Private Link, which provides private connectivity to Azure services, is now available in all regions.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Virtual Network
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Security
  • Regions & Datacenters
Nov 4

Streamline data analytics processes with ADLS Gen2 events in Azure Event Grid

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 can now publish events about individual changes to files and directories to Azure Event Grid.

  • Event Grid
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Services
  • Features

September 2019

Sep 16

Azure Private Link is now available in preview

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2019

Connect to services in your Azure virtual networks more securely and privately with Azure Private Link, now available in preview.

  • Virtual Network
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Security
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features
  • Compliance

July 2019

Jul 17

Stream Analytics supports output to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2

IN PREVIEW

Azure Stream Analytics now offers output adapter for egress to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2.

  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Features
Jul 17

Stream Analytics offers native support for Parquet format

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Stream Analytics now offers native support for Apache Parquet format when writing to Azure Blob storage or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2.

  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Features
Jul 15

Multi-protocol Data Access for Azure Data Lake Storage is now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

New functionality that will enable you to manage the same data using either Blob APIs or Data Lake Storage Gen2 APIs is now available in preview.

  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Storage Accounts
  • Features

June 2019

Jun 26

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 support for Event Grid Notifications is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Event Grid provides reliable event delivery at massive scale. Event Grid integration brings change notifications for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

  • Event Grid
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Features
Jun 25

Preserve ACLs when upgrading from ADLS Gen1 to Gen2 using Azure Data Factory

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory empowers you to copy data from Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen1 to Gen2 easily and performantly. Furthermore, now you can choose to preserve the access control lists (ACLs) set on the files/directories along with data.

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Features

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