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May 2024

May 8

Public Preview: SQL Server on Azure VM storage configuration deployment experience with support for Premium SSD v2

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

Customers can now choose Premium SSD v2 for the Ebdsv5 and Ebsv5 virtual machine series with the additional ability to opt-in for NVMe support.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Features
May 7

Public preview: Standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration

IN PREVIEW

Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration provides the ability to reduce scale out latency and increase scale out performance.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Virtual Machines
  • Features
May 7

Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Italy North

NOW AVAILABLE

Now available in Italy North region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.

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

April 2024

Apr 29

Public Preview: Azure Dedicated Host - Redeploy

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

Introducing redeploying capability for Azure dedicated hosts

  • Azure Dedicated Host
  • Features
Apr 19

Public Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2024

Now you can use the benefits of Shared Disk for your mission-critical applications such as SQL FCI, SAP ASCS, Scale-out File Servers, etc., while ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery.

  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
  • Compliance
Apr 18

Azure Data Box Disk is now available with hardware encryption

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2024

Azure Data Box Disk is now Generally Available with hardware encryption.

  • Storage Explorer
  • Data Box
  • Data Box Disk
  • Azure Data Box
  • Features
Apr 15

GA: New Property for Disks-LastOwnershipUpdateTime

NOW AVAILABLE

Introducing LastOwnershipUpdateTime for Disks in Azure Portal, PowerShell, and CLI. It indicates the last state change time for the Disk, useful for tracking its current state and when it was last updated.

  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Features
Apr 8

Public preview: Backup and restore of virtual machines with private endpoint enabled disks

IN PREVIEW

Azure Backup can now help you back up virtual machines using private endpoint-enabled disks. You can now also specify network settings to be used by the restored disks while initiating the restore process.

  • Azure Backup
  • Security
  • Management
  • Features

March 2024

Mar 28

GA: Improved throughput performance on Azure Disks’ Standard SSD

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Disks Standard SSD throughput limits are now 100 MB/s on disks sized 8191 GBs and lower.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Services
  • Features
Mar 25

Preview: New Features in Azure Container Storage

IN PREVIEW

Azure Container Storage is a fully managed volume orchestration service built natively for containers. New capabilities include support for Temp SSD, simplified installation via AKS CLI, and scalable storage for cost-efficient workload management.

  • Azure Container Storage
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Features
Mar 25

Public Preview: Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backup by Azure Backup for VM

IN PREVIEW

Azure VM backup now supports agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups in public preview.

  • Azure Backup
  • Compliance
Mar 22

Announcing Azure HPC Cache Retirement

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

Azure HPC Cache is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025.

  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Retirements
Mar 22

Announcing Avere vFXT for Azure Retirement

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

Avere vFXT for Azure is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025.

  • Avere vFXT for Azure
  • Retirements
Mar 21

Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage

IN DEVELOPMENT

Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0.

  • Managed Disks
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Features
Mar 5

Public preview: New Generation AMD VMs - Dasv6/Easv6/Fasv6

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2024

Azure introduces the latest AMD-based VMs in public preview for the D, E, and F series VMs, built on the 4th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Genoa) CPU.

  • Pricing & Offerings

February 2024

Feb 29

General Availability: Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in more regions.

NOW AVAILABLE

Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in Canada East, West Europe, South Central US and West US 3.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
Feb 27

Enable replication for added VMware VM data disks

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Site Recovery now supports enabling replication for data disks that you add to a VMware VM that's already enabled for disaster recovery.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Management
  • Features
Feb 19

Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Management
  • Features
  • Compliance
Feb 19

Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Management
  • Features
  • Compliance
Feb 14

General availability: Customer managed key encryption for Enterprise tier caches

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2024

Encrypt Redis persistence files using customer managed keys.

  • Azure Cache for Redis
  • Features

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