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RSS feedFebruary 2020
Azure Key Vault—Private endpoints now available in preview
Target availability: Q1 2020
Establish a private connection between Azure Key Vault and other Azure services by using Azure Private Link, now available in preview for all public regions.
November 2019
New Azure policies to manage certificates across your organization, currently in preview
Large organizations have thousands of certificates in key vaults distributed across thousands of applications and subscriptions.
Azure Key Vault Virtual Machine extension now generally available
The Azure Key Vault Virtual Machine extension makes it easier for apps running on virtual machines to use certificates from a key vault, by abstracting the common tasks as well as best practices.
Event-driven secrets management with Azure Key Vault events now in Event Grid
Azure Key Vault becomes a first party event publisher for Azure Event Grid, publishing events about keys and secrets management.
October 2019
Key Vault references in App Service and Azure Functions are now available
Introduce secrets management into your apps without code changes using Key Vault references.
July 2019
A new set of Azure SDKs is now available in preview
A new set of libraries for working with Azure Storage, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, and Event Hubs in Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and C# is now available in preview.
November 2018
Azure Functions—Key Vault integration
Azure Key Vault integration with Azure Functions lets you build more secure serverless applications out of the box, taking advantage of secrets management to get the benefits of rotation policies and centralized access control.
September 2018
Azure Key Vault support with Azure Databricks
Azure Databricks now supports Azure Key Vault backed secret scope. With this, Azure Databricks now supports two types of secret scopes—Azure Key Vault-backed and Databricks-backed.
General availability: Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Key Vault
Virtual network service endpoints are generally available for Azure Key Vault in all public Azure regions.
September 2016
Generally available: Azure Disk Encryption for Windows and Linux for Standard and Premium IaaS virtual machines
Azure Disk Encryption for Linux IaaS virtual machines and support for virtual machines with Premium storage is generally available in all Azure public regions.
Azure Key Vault Certificates helps simplify and automate tasks for SSL/TLS certificates
Azure Key Vault is introducing Key Vault Certificates to simplify tasks related to SSL/TLS certificates from supported third-party CAs.
November 2015
Public preview: Azure Disk Encryption
Azure Disk Encryption for virtual machines addresses organizational security and compliance requirements by encrypting virtual machine disks.
June 2015
General availability: Azure Key Vault
Key Vault is generally available to help cloud application developers safeguard keys and other secrets.
January 2015
Public Preview: Azure Key Vault
Azure Key Vault offers an easy, cost-effective way to safeguard keys and other sensitive data that is used by cloud applications and services.
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