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RSS feedMay 2024
Public Preview: Azure Storage Actions is now available in 14 more regions
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.
March 2024
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier in generally available in Poland Central, Qatar Central and Azure China.
Generally available: Service Level Agreements on Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier has published Service Level Agreements.
February 2024
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Change Feed and Object Replication
Azure Blob Change Feed and Object Replication now support Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier.
November 2023
TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage
Target availability: Q4 2024
TLS 1.2 to become the minimum TLS version for Azure Storage
October 2023
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier support on Blob Batch operations
Azure Blob Batch operations now support Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier.
August 2023
Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
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.
July 2023
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Sweden Central
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
June 2023
General availability: Azure Blob Storage SDK for Go
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.
May 2023
Public preview: Azure Cold Storage
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.
April 2023
Generally available: Cross-region service endpoints for Azure Storage
You can now connect Storage Accounts to Virtual Networks in all regions using global service endpoints (cross-region service endpoints).
March 2023
Generally available: Encryption scopes on hierarchical namespace enabled storage accounts
You can now use separate encryption keys for each customer in a single hierarchical namespace enabled storage account.
General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in West US 3
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions.
February 2023
Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre
Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system
November 2022
General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers
With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.
September 2022
Public preview: Encryption scopes on hierarchical namespace enabled storage accounts
You can now use separate encryption keys for each customer in a single hierarchical namespace enabled storage account.
August 2022
Generally available: Prevent a lifecycle management policy from archiving recently rehydrated blobs
Use daysAfterLastTierChangeGreaterThan condition in lifecycle management policy to prevent unintended archiving.
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: Rehydrate an archived blob to a different storage account
Segregate your backup data in different storage accounts with Archive across-accounts copy.
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