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General availability: Ephemeral OS disks supports encryption at host using customer managed keys
Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for encryption at host.
November 2022
General availability: Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines
Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads.
August 2022
Public preview: Ephemeral OS disks supports host-based encryption using customer managed key
Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for host-based encryption.
July 2022
Public preview: Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines
Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads.
June 2022
General availability: Trusted launch support for virtual machines using Ephemeral OS disks
Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure.
April 2022
Generally available: Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault
Key Vault now enables you to automatically rotate keys for encryption of your data.
March 2022
Public preview: Trusted launch support for Virtual Machines using Ephemeral OS disks
Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure.
December 2021
Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault is now in public preview
Automated key rotation in Key Vault allows security officers to improve data security.
Public preview availability of Virtual Machine restore points
Take multi-disk consistent point in time snapshots of all the disks attached to a VM for backup and disaster recovery purposes.
November 2021
General availability: Provisioned throughput increase for Azure Ultra Disk Storage
The provisioned throughput for Azure Ultra Disk Storage has been increased to 4,000 MB/s per disk.
General availability: Centralized management of keys for encrypting Azure disks
Centralized management of keys for encrypting Azure disks is now generally available, allowing you to manage encryption keys centrally in a subscription and encrypt disks and snapshots in other subscriptions in your organization.
New capabilities introduced for disk pool (public preview) for Azure VMware Solution
Disk pool enables you to access Azure Disk Storage for high-performance, durable block storage for your Azure VMware Solution workloads. We are introducing new enhancements to disk pool to improve availability, cost-efficiency, and management.
Public preview: Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage
Cross-region snapshot copy is now in preview, allowing you to copy disk snapshots to any region for disaster recovery scenarios.
Live resize of Azure Disk Storage in public preview
With live resize of Azure Disk Storage in preview, you can dynamically increase your disk size without any downtime to your application.
On-demand disk bursting for Azure Premium SSDs now generally available
On-demand disk bursting is now generally available for Premium SSDs, allowing you to scale performance to meet demand whenever needed and optimize costs.
October 2021
General availability: Ephemeral OS disks for Azure VMs support additional VM sizes
You now can choose where to store Ephemeral OS disks, either in VM temp disk or on VM cache. This enables Ephemeral OS disks to be created on more VM sizes that have sufficient temp disks.
September 2021
Zone redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure Disk Storage now generally available
Now generally available in West Europe, North Europe, West US 2, and France Central, Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure Disk Storage protects disks from zonal failures which may occur due to natural disasters or hardware issues.
General availability: Change performance tiers for Azure Premium SSDs with no downtime
Azure Premium SSDs now enables you to change performance tiers without any downtime to your applications.
July 2021
Shared disks on Azure Disk Storage are now generally available on all Premium SSD and Standard SSD sizes
Shared disks can now be leveraged on smaller Premium SSDs from 4GiB to 128 GiB and all Standard SSDs from 4 GiB to 32 TiB. This expands shared disk support to Ultra Disk, Premium SSD, and Standard SSD enabling you to optimize for different price and performance options based on your workload needs.
Disk pool for Azure VMware Solution now in public preview
With disk pool, Azure VMware Solution customers can now access Azure Disk Storage for high-performance, durable block storage. Customer can scale their storage independent of compute and handle their growing data needs more cost-effectively.
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