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August 2023

Aug 16

General Availability: Incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 Disk and Ultra Disk Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

Incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk Storage with instant restore capability are now generally available (GA)

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Features
Aug 10

Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Storage Accounts
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Aug 2

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in East Asia

NOW AVAILABLE

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in East Asia

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Storage Accounts
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

July 2023

Jul 18

Public Preview : Crash Consistent VM Restore points

IN PREVIEW

For Azure partners and customers seeking to develop business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, crash-consistent VM restore points serve as feature-rich building blocks, offering an agentless solution available natively on the Azure platform.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

March 2023

Mar 13

General availability: Ephemeral OS disks supports encryption at host using customer managed keys

NOW AVAILABLE

Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for encryption at host.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

November 2022

Nov 2

General availability: Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

August 2022

Aug 30

Public preview: Ephemeral OS disks supports host-based encryption using customer managed key

IN PREVIEW

Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for host-based encryption.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

July 2022

Jul 5

Public preview: Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines

IN PREVIEW

Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

June 2022

Jun 7

General availability: Trusted launch support for virtual machines using Ephemeral OS disks

NOW AVAILABLE

Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

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 15

Public preview: Trusted launch support for Virtual Machines using Ephemeral OS disks

IN PREVIEW

Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Managed Disks
  • 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
Dec 7

Public preview availability of Virtual Machine restore points

IN PREVIEW

Take multi-disk consistent point in time snapshots of all the disks attached to a VM for backup and disaster recovery purposes.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Snapshot Execution
  • Services
  • Features

November 2021

Nov 2

General availability: Provisioned throughput increase for Azure Ultra Disk Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

The provisioned throughput for Azure Ultra Disk Storage has been increased to 4,000 MB/s per disk.

  • Managed Disks
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 2

General availability: Centralized management of keys for encrypting Azure disks

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Managed Disks
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 2

New capabilities introduced for disk pool (public preview) for Azure VMware Solution

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Managed Disks
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 2

Public preview: Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage

IN PREVIEW

Cross-region snapshot copy is now in preview, allowing you to copy disk snapshots to any region for disaster recovery scenarios.

  • Managed Disks
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 2

Live resize of Azure Disk Storage in public preview

IN PREVIEW

With live resize of Azure Disk Storage in preview, you can dynamically increase your disk size without any downtime to your application.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Nov 2

On-demand disk bursting for Azure Premium SSDs now generally available

NOW 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.

  • Managed Disks
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2021

Oct 28

General availability: Ephemeral OS disks for Azure VMs support additional VM sizes

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

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