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May 2024

May 7

Public Preview: Azure Storage Actions is now available in 14 more regions

IN PREVIEW

Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform that helps you automate data management operations for object storage and data lakes. The preview is now available in 14 more regions.

  • Azure Storage Actions
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Database for MariaDB
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

March 2024

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 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

November 2023

Nov 1

TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage

IN DEVELOPMENT

Target availability: Q4 2024

TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Compliance
  • Security

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

August 2023

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

July 2023

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

June 2023

Jun 14

General availability: Azure Blob Storage SDK for Go

NOW AVAILABLE

The new Azure Blob Storage SDK is now generally available for Go, allowing developers to build Go apps that interact with objects in Azure Blob Storage.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools

May 2023

May 4

Public preview: Azure Cold Storage

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2023

Azure Cold Storage, as the most cost-effective access tier with near real-time read latency for infrequently accessed unstructured data is available for public preview.

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

April 2023

Apr 24

Generally available: Cross-region service endpoints for Azure Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now connect Storage Accounts to Virtual Networks in all regions using global service endpoints (cross-region service endpoints).

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Virtual Network
  • Features

March 2023

Mar 20

Generally available: Encryption scopes on hierarchical namespace enabled storage accounts

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now use separate encryption keys for each customer in a single hierarchical namespace enabled storage account.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Services
Mar 1

General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in West US 3

NOW AVAILABLE

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

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

February 2023

Feb 22

Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre

IN PREVIEW

Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system

  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Pricing & Offerings

November 2022

Nov 30

General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers

NOW AVAILABLE

With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.

  • Media Services
  • Azure Container Registry
  • Service Bus
  • Load Balancer
  • Virtual Machines
  • Key Vault
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Files
  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Security
  • Services

September 2022

Sep 21

Public preview: Encryption scopes on hierarchical namespace enabled storage accounts

IN PREVIEW

You can now use separate encryption keys for each customer in a single hierarchical namespace enabled storage account.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Services

August 2022

Aug 29

Generally available: Prevent a lifecycle management policy from archiving recently rehydrated blobs

NOW AVAILABLE

Use daysAfterLastTierChangeGreaterThan condition in lifecycle management policy to prevent unintended archiving.

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Archive Storage
  • Features

July 2022

Jul 6

General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in South Africa North

NOW AVAILABLE

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

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

May 2022

May 2

General availability: Object replication on premium blob storage and rule limit increased

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Storage Accounts
  • Services
  • Features

April 2022

Apr 20

Generally available: Rehydrate an archived blob to a different storage account

NOW AVAILABLE

Segregate your backup data in different storage accounts with Archive across-accounts copy.

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Archive Storage
  • Features

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