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November 2023

Nov 6

Latency metrics for disks and performance metrics for temporary disks on Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

New latency metrics on OS, data and temporary disks are now available in preview, allowing you to see how long it takes to complete input/output (IO) requests to Azure Disks . In addition, new performance metrics for temporary disks are generally available now and allow users to see the IOPS, throughput and queue depth for virtual machines with temporary disks.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Virtual Machines
  • Features
Nov 6

General Availability: Azure Advisor recommendation improves the reliability of Azure Disks with Zone Redundant Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

Enable disks to tolerate zonal failures without causing disruptions to your application. To learn more, visit Reliability recommendations - Azure Advisor | Microsoft Learn

  • Azure Advisor
  • Management
  • Features
Nov 2

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

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

October 2023

Oct 25

GA: Bring our own keys (BYOK) on Ephemeral OS Disk

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now encrypt OS and Data disks of your AKS nodes in production with your own managed keys.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Security
  • Features
Oct 25

General availability: Storage auto-grow & online disk scaling for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q4 2023

With auto-grow enabled, Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server will automatically increase the size of your provisioned storage.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Features
Oct 19

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Norway East and UAE North regions.

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

September 2023

Sep 29

Azure CycleCloud support for automatic configuration of LVM for Azure CycleCloud volume mounts will be retired on 30 September 2024

Target retirement date: October 01, 2024

Community support for Automatic configuration of LVM for Azure CycleCloud volume mounts is ending on 30 September 2024

  • Azure CycleCloud
  • Features
  • Retirements
Sep 28

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in China North 3, India Central, Switzerland North, South Africa North and Sweden Central regions..

  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Sep 14

General availability: Selective Disk Backup and Restore in Enhanced Policy for Azure VM Backup

NOW AVAILABLE

We are adding the “Selective Disk Backup and Restore” capability in Enhanced Policy of Azure VM Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Virtual Machines
  • Features
Sep 7

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
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Sep 7

Public Preview: Azure Container Storage Updates: Expanded regions and performance options

IN PREVIEW

Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest updates you can now deploy in 26 regions, use volume resize & cloning and choose from an expanded list of Disk SKUs.

  • Azure Container Storage
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Azure Elastic SAN
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features

August 2023

Aug 29

Generally available: Azure Site Recovery Higher Churn Support

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Site Recovery High Churn Support

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Features
Aug 22

Generally available: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Cross Subscription Restore support for Azure VM is generally available.

  • Services
Aug 16

Public Preview: Storage auto-grow & online disk scaling for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

With auto-grow enabled, Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server will automatically increase the size of your provisioned storage.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible servers
  • Features
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 15

Public preview: Azure Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines

IN PREVIEW

Get improved performance and higher reliability for your memory-optimized workloads with the public preview of the new generation Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • 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 3

Private Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2023

Now you can protect, monitor, and recover your WSFC-clusters as a single unit across its DR Lifecycle, while also generating cluster-consistent recovery points – which are consistent across all the disks (including the Shared Disk) of the cluster.

  • Services
  • 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
Aug 2

General availability: PostgreSQL 15 support in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server now provides support for PostgreSQL 15 across all Azure regions.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible servers
  • Features

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