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2025 (11)

October (3)

azure: [Launched] Generally Avaialbe: Azure NetApp Files short-term clones

Azure Updates

2025-10-07

Azure NetApp Files short-term clones are now generally available. They create temporary thin clones from existing volume snapshots to provide space-efficient, instant read/write access without making full data copies, reducing capacity usage and speeding workflows.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Cross-tenant customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption

Azure Updates

2025-10-03

Azure NetApp Files now generally supports cross-tenant customer-managed keys (CMK) for volume encryption, letting customers use and control their own encryption keys across different Azure tenancies to increase control and flexibility.

azure: Retirement: General Purpose v1 (GPv1) and legacy blob storage accounts

Azure Updates

2025-10-03

Microsoft announced the retirement of all General purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts — including legacy blob storage accounts — as part of efforts to streamline the Azure Storage portfolio and improve performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

September (6)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files Flexible service level

Azure Updates

2025-09-25

Azure NetApp Files Flexible service level is now generally available. It lets you independently configure storage capacity and throughput so you can right-size performance and cost, avoiding overprovisioning by using customizable throughput settings separate from capacity.

k8s: Announcing Changed Block Tracking API support (alpha)

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-09-25

Kubernetes announces alpha support for a Changed Block Tracking API that lets CSI drivers report allocated and changed blocks between snapshots to enable faster, incremental backups for block volumes. The feature requires a SnapshotMetadataService CRD, an external-snapshot-metadata sidecar, and CSI SnapshotMetadata gRPC RPCs (GetMetadataAllocated and GetMetadataDelta) with streaming responses.

k8s: Kubernetes v1.34: Recovery From Volume Expansion Failure (GA)

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-09-19

Kubernetes v1.34 graduates automated recovery from failed persistent volume expansions to GA. Users can correct an over-sized PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) by reducing the requested size (as long as the new request is still larger than the PV's original capacity) without cluster-admin intervention; consumed quota from a failed expansion is returned automatically. The release also introduces improved observability and error reporting for expansion operations, retries with reduced request rates, and several resizing workflow bug fixes.

k8s: Kubernetes v1.34: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to v1beta2

Kubernetes Official Blog

2025-09-16

Kubernetes v1.34 advances Volume Group Snapshots to v1beta2. The update adds a VolumeSnapshotInfo type and replaces VolumeSnapshotHandlePairList with VolumeSnapshotInfoList to fix restoreSize handling when CSI drivers do not implement ListSnapshots; objects are migrated from v1beta1 via a conversion webhook and the feature remains CSI-only with GA planned later.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in West US 2

Azure Updates

2025-09-02

Azure has launched a generally available price reduction for Ultra Disks in the West US 2 region. Ultra Disks are Azure's highest-performance block storage offering, providing consistent sub-millisecond latency and very high throughput/IOPS, and the price cut lowers storage costs for demanding enterprise workloads in that region.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Ultra Disk Price Reduction in Central US

Azure Updates

2025-09-02

Azure has made a price reduction for Ultra Disks in the Central US region generally available. Ultra Disks provide extremely high performance and sub-millisecond latency for demanding VM workloads, and the price cut reduces costs for those workloads in that region.

August (2)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Flexible service level now supports cool access

Azure Updates

2025-08-20

Azure NetApp Files' Flexible service level now supports cool access, enabling customers to configure storage capacity and throughput independently for workloads with specific performance and sizing needs.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Storage Discovery

Azure Updates

2025-08-06

Azure Storage Discovery is now in public preview, offering enterprise-wide visibility into Azure Storage data. It enables deep analysis of capacity and activity to optimize costs, enhance security, and improve operations.