- Application Layer Encryption
- Encrypt storage data in your apps – auto encrypt and decrypt prior to receiving and after receiving storage. Key vault service is integrated for users to send their keys.
- Seamless integration – blobs (full blob upload)
- Direct Data Access (enables clients to access storage directly) using delegated AuthZ
- Shared access signature – Isolate containers, blobs, storage to set read/write permissions and set a time period for access, IP (address or range), Protocol (http or https)
- Large Scale Append
- New blob type called AppendBlob – Optimized for large scale logging scenarios
- High Availability Apps
Read only access to secondary delivers 99.99% on reads (code needs to support a read only mode)
Premium Storage is available now
Coming Soon
- Tech support now available for Azure Files
- Storage support for new resource manager
- Client Side encryption library
- iOS Client Library