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Generally available: Resource instance rules for access to Azure Storage
Resource instance rules enable secure connectivity to Azure Storage by only allowing access from specific resources of select Azure services.
Public preview: Encrypt storage account with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
Azure Storage now supports customer-managed keys using a key vault on a different Azure Active Directory tenant.
August 2022
Generally available: US West 3 price adjustment
Pricing adjustment to bring value to our Azure customers in western US regions.
July 2022
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in South Africa North
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
May 2022
General availability: Object replication on premium blob storage and rule limit increased
You can now replicate your block blobs to region of your choice with object replication for premium block blobs and rule limit is increased to 1000 containers per replication policy.
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.
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Switzerland North
Reduce spending by storing cold data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
March 2022
Generally available: Access time-based lifecycle management rules for Data Lake Storage Gen2
Access time tracking for objects and lifecycle management policies based on last accessed time in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
December 2021
Soft delete for blobs capability for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available
If you have processes or tools to detect accidental deletion of files and directories for your Azure Data Lake Storage accounts, you can now also restore the deleted objects using soft delete for blobs capability. During the retention period that you specify, you can now restore a soft-deleted object to its state at the time it was deleted.
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.
Azure Storage: Secure access to storage account from a virtual network/subnet in any region now in public preview
This preview enables secure access to your storage account by configuring virtual network rules in the storage firewall that allow access from subnets in any Azure region of your choice.
Azure Storage: Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) conditions with principal attributes now in public preview
Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) is an authorization mechanism that defines access levels based on attributes associated with security principals, resources, requests or the environment. You can now use Azure AD custom security attributes for principals in role assignment conditions for Azure Storage, along with resource and request attributes.
November 2021
SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage - now in public preview
Azure Blob Storage is the only storage platform that supports SFTP over object storage natively in a serverless fashion, enabling you leverage object storage economics and features with legacy workloads that use SFTP.
General availability: NFSv4.1 support on Azure Files
With NFS (Network File Share) on Azure Files, you can now deploy fully managed, POSIX compliant, distributed NFS file shares in your production environments for a wide variety of workloads.
General availability: Azure Archive rehydration priority update
Reduce high-priority retrieval costs for Archive Storage by deferring the decision to rehydrate with high priority, then updating the priority while the operation is pending.
October 2021
General availability: Cross region replication for Azure NetApp Files
Azure NetApp Files supports cross region replication for disaster-recovery (DR) purposes and provides frequent, efficient and cost-effective volume and snapshot replication between Azure standard and non-standard region pairs.
General availability: Azure NetApp Files waitlist removal
Azure NetApp Files, one of the fastest growing bare-metal Azure services is now available to Azure customers directly from the Azure portal, CLI, API or with SDK – without having to go through waitlist approval process.
September 2021
Object replication in public preview for Premium Block Blob Storage
Object replication allows you to replicate your premium block blob data at the blob level from one storage account to another anywhere in the Azure.
August 2021
Azure Blob storage - Last access time tracking now generally available
This feature helps administrators control costs through the automatic tiering and deletion of blobs via tiering including when the data was last read.
Azure Blob storage - Inventory generally availability
Administrators can enable a daily or weekly inventory to be created to gain understanding of their blobs and containers.
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