Storage Accounts

At times like this, chatting about cool new features in Azure is a lot less important than what’s surrounding us all, and impacting some of us either directly or indirectly, now. But you know what? A distraction from the fear, worry, or self-imposed incarceration can be a good thing. So let’s crack on with it, and let’s talk about the cool new IaaS features that Azure launched during the last month.

As we head towards Ignite, October had a bunch of Azure announcements but there will be even more next month.

The half-year point has passed meaning that Azure (and Windows/Windows Server) are into a new planning & development cycle.

Aidan Finn reviews his highlights in the last year of Azure infrastructure improvements. Please share your highlights too.

Aidan Finn explains what Microsoft’s General Purpose v2 (GPv2) storage account is and how this is related to the general availability of tiered blob storage.

Aidan Finn explains the new mechanism that Microsoft has just introduced for providing virtual machine storage in Azure, called Managed Disks.