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March 2024

Mar 29

Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage C++ client libraries will be retired on 29 March 2025

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: March 29, 2024

Legacy Azure Storage C++ client libraries will be retired on 29 March 2025. Before that date, you’ll need to transition to the latest version of the Azure Storage C++ client libraries.

  • SDKs
  • Storage Accounts
  • Retirements
Mar 27

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

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

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

  • Azure Files
  • Storage Accounts
  • Features
Mar 11

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in generally available in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Features
Mar 7

Generally available: Service Level Agreements on Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier has published Service Level Agreements.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Features

February 2024

Feb 20

Public Preview: Azure Storage Actions — Serverless storage data management

IN PREVIEW

Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management tasks for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Premium Blob Storage
  • Management
  • Features
Feb 14

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Change Feed and Object Replication

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Blob Change Feed and Object Replication now support Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier.

  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Features
Feb 13

Azure Elastic SAN is now generally available

NOW 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.

  • Azure Elastic SAN
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

October 2023

Oct 30

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Blob Batch operations

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Blob Batch operations now support Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier.

  • Hot/Cool/Cold Blob Storage Tiers
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Storage Accounts
  • Features

September 2023

Sep 29

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.

  • SDKs
  • Storage Accounts
  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
Sep 29

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.

  • SDKs
  • Storage Accounts
  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
Sep 22

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.

  • SDKs
  • Storage Accounts
  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
Sep 22

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

  • SDKs
  • Storage Accounts
  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
Sep 22

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.

  • Storage Accounts
  • SDKs
  • Retirements

August 2023

Aug 24

Quick create Azure Front Door endpoints for Azure Storage accounts

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Storage is announcing native integration with Azure Front Door for content delivery with blob storage as your origin

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Front Door
  • Security
  • Features
Aug 16

Public Preview: Azure Elastic SAN Updates: Private endpoints & shared volumes

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Elastic SAN
  • Storage Accounts
  • Managed Disks
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • 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 10

Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Storage Accounts
  • 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 5

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.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Jul 3

General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Sweden Central

NOW AVAILABLE

Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.

  • Archive Storage
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Features

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