Azure-updates

Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Azure Backup now supports transferring Azure Files backups to the vault for comprehensive protection against severe data loss scenarios like ransomware attack.

• Security
• Features

General Availability: Azure Files geo-redundancy for standard large file shares

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Azure Files geo-redundancy for 100TiB standard SMB file shares is now generally available.

• Azure Files
• Opslagaccounts
• Features

Mount Azure Storage as a local share in App Service Linux Now supports NFS

NFS support is now available for App Service Linux code and container when mounting a Azure File share as a local share for the web app. 

• App Service
• Features

Improved exports experience

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q1 2024

Introducing an improved exports experience that makes FinOps easier and more efficient with access to additional datasets and optimized for handling large data. You can also create and manage your exports with a few clicks, download your cost data in FOCUS format, and maintain compatibility with previous schema versions, enhance your security and compliance while saving time and money.

• Management
• Features

General Availability: User and group quota management in Azure NetApp Files

Default and individual user/group quotas allows you to stay in control of capacity consumption on volumes; the feature is now Generally Available (GA)

• Azure NetApp Files
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files standard storage with cool access

Azure NetApp Files standard storage with cool access is now in public preview. With the new cool access feature, you can enable standard volumes with the ability to transparently store data more cost-effectively on Azure storage accounts based on its access pattern.

• Azure NetApp Files
• Pricing & Offerings
• Features

Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage Java client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024

Streefdatum afschaffing: 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.

• SDK's
• Opslagaccounts
• Retirements
• SDK and Tools

General availability: Terraform support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

Doelbeschikbaarheid: Q3 2023

Now you can use Terraform for unified inventory and management operations for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters.

• Azure Cosmos DB voor PostgreSQL
• Features

Azure Managed Lustre now generally available

Reduce infrastructure setup with a managed file system optimized for HPC and AI workloads.

• Azure Managed Lustre
• Services
• Pricing & Offerings

Public Preview: Azure AD Support for Azure Files SMB shares REST API

With this announcement, cloud native and modern applications that use REST APIs to access Azure SMB shares can utilize identity-based authentication and authorization to access file shares.

• Azure Files
• SDK's
• Opslagaccounts
• SDK and Tools
• Features