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Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in generally available in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China.
Generally available: Service Level Agreements on Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier has published Service Level Agreements.
February 2024
Public Preview: Azure Storage Actions — Serverless storage data management
Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management tasks for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage.
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Change Feed and Object Replication
Azure Blob Change Feed and Object Replication now support Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier.
Azure Elastic SAN is now generally available
Azure Elastic SAN is now generally available, the industry’s first fully managed and cloud-native SAN offering that simplifies deploying, scaling, managing, and configuring a SAN in the cloud.
October 2023
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Blob Batch operations
Azure Blob Batch operations now support Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier.
September 2023
Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage Java client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Target retirement date: September 13, 2024
Upgrade to the latest version of the libraries before the Legacy Azure Storage Java client libraries are retired on 13 September 2024.
Retirement notice: The Azure Storage Android client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Target retirement date: September 13, 2024
Azure Storage Android client libraries is being retired on 13 September 2024 - Transition to calling the Azure Storage REST API directly from your Android applications.
Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage Python client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Target retirement date: September 13, 2024
Upgrade to the latest version of the libraries before the Legacy Azure Storage Python client libraries are retired on 13 September 2024.
Retirement notice: The Azure Storage Ruby client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Target retirement date: September 13, 2024
Azure Storage Ruby client libraries are being retired on 13 September 2024 - Transition to calling the Azure Storage REST API directly from your Ruby applications
Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage Go client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Target retirement date: September 13, 2024
Upgrade to the latest version of the libraries before the Legacy Azure Storage Go client libraries are retired on 13 September 2024.
August 2023
Quick create Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts
Azure Storage is announcing native integration with Azure Front Door for content delivery with blob storage as your origin
Public Preview: Azure Elastic SAN Updates: Private endpoints & shared volumes
Introducing the latest updates to Azure Elastic SAN (in preview), private endpoint support and volume sharing support via SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) Persistent Reservation.
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions
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.
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier is an online tier specifically designed for efficiently storing data that is infrequently accessed or modified, all while ensuring immediate availability.
Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in East Asia
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in East Asia
July 2023
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions.
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.
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Sweden Central
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
June 2023
Preview Updates: Azure Elastic SAN Public Preview improvements
Introducing the latest update to Azure Elastic SAN (in preview), which now offers expanded range of regions, increased support for diverse workloads, and an array of new features.
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in Southeast Asia, UK South, South Central US and West US 3
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.
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