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February 2024

Feb 12

General availability: Improvements in Azure Key Vault

NOW AVAILABLE

Improvements in Azure Key Vault: FIPS 140-2 Level 3, PCI DSS and PCI 3DS certified for all customers.

  • Key Vault
  • Azure Key Vault Managed HSM
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features

November 2022

Nov 30

General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers

NOW AVAILABLE

With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.

  • Media Services
  • Azure Container Registry
  • Service Bus
  • Load Balancer
  • Virtual Machines
  • Key Vault
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Files
  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Security

April 2022

Apr 28

Generally available: Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault

NOW AVAILABLE

Key Vault now enables you to automatically rotate keys for encryption of your data.

  • Key Vault
  • Storage Accounts
  • Managed Disks
  • Security
  • Features

March 2022

Mar 9

Public preview: Azure Chaos Studio Key Vault and Classic Cloud Services faults

IN PREVIEW

Azure Chaos Studio has new faults available for denying access to a Key Vault and shutting down a Classic Cloud Service.

  • Azure Chaos Studio
  • Key Vault
  • Cloud Services
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features

January 2022

Jan 27

General availability: Azure Key Vault increased service limits for all its customers

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Key Vault service throughput limits have been increased for each vault, driving higher performance for your applications.

  • Key Vault
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Security
  • Features

December 2021

Dec 15

Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault is now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Automated key rotation in Key Vault allows security officers to improve data security.

  • Key Vault
  • Storage Accounts
  • Managed Disks
  • Security
  • Features

October 2021

Oct 26

General availability: Azure governance policy for Azure Key Vault

NOW AVAILABLE

Integration of Azure Key Vault with Azure Policy has reached general availability and is now ready for production use. Azure Policy provides the ability to place guardrails on Key Vault and its objects to ensure they are compliant with your organizations security recommendations and compliance regulations. It allows you to perform real time policy-based enforcement and on-demand compliance assessment of existing secrets in your Azure environment.

  • Key Vault
  • Azure Policy
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features

June 2021

Jun 21

Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (hardware security module) is now generally available. Managed HSM offers a fully managed, highly available, single-tenant, high-throughput, standards-compliant cloud service to safeguard cryptographic keys for your cloud applications, using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated HSMs.

  • Key Vault
  • Azure Key Vault Managed HSM
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features

May 2021

May 17

General availability: Azure Key Vault SLA raised to 99.99%

NOW AVAILABLE

Key Vault is now being offered at a 99.99% availability SLA, an improvement over our previous 99.9% SLA. 

  • Key Vault
  • Services
  • Security

February 2021

Feb 16

Azure role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Achieve unified management and access control across Azure resources, Azure Key Vault and keys, certificates, and secrets.

  • Key Vault
  • Security
  • Features

October 2020

Oct 21

Azure Policy for Key Vault now supports keys, secrets, and certificates

IN PREVIEW

Get a deeper view into your organization's security posture, configure daily automated audits, and start enforcing best practices in under 5 minutes.

  • Key Vault
  • Azure Policy
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features
Oct 19

Azure Key Vault Event Grid integration is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Key Vault is now an events publisher with Azure Event Grid, enabling developers to subscribe to events about keys, certificates, and secrets changes.

  • Key Vault
  • Event Grid
  • Security
  • Features

September 2020

Sep 22

Azure Key Vault Managed HSM available in public preview

NOW AVAILABLE

A new key management offering is now available in public preview: Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (hardware security model). Azure Key Vault Managed HSM offers a fully managed, highly available, single-tenant, standards-compliant cloud service that enables you to safeguards cryptographic keys for your cloud applications, using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated HSMs.

  • Key Vault
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features
Sep 22

General availability of Azure Monitor for Key Vault and Azure Cache for Redis

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor for Key Vault and Azure Monitor for Azure Cache for Redis provide out of the box insights for these resources using platform telemetry.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Key Vault
  • Security
  • Features

June 2020

Jun 24

Azure Monitor for Key Vault is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor for Key Vault Preview provides comprehensive monitoring of your key vaults by delivering a unified view of your Key Vault requests, performance, failures, and latency.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Key Vault
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features

May 2020

May 29

Key Vault bring your own key (BYOK) is now generally available

A new bring your own key (BYOK) method to import keys securely from on-premises HSMs into Azure Key Vault is now generally available. This BYOK method can be used to import keys from any supported on-premises HSM.

  • Key Vault
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features
May 19

Azure Key Vault service enhancements now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Key Vault safeguards data in the cloud with enhancements for Azure Private Link, bring your own key (BYOK), and Key Vault secrets.

  • Key Vault
  • Services
  • Security
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
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Security

March 2020

Mar 26

Azure SDKs General Availability - March 2020

NOW AVAILABLE

Additional libraries for working with Azure services are now generally available.

  • Event Hubs
  • Key Vault
  • App Configuration
  • Security
  • 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
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Security

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