Azure Files

Simple, secure and serverless enterprise-grade cloud file shares.

Overview

Azure Files offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, Network File System (NFS) protocol, and Azure Files REST API. Azure file shares can be mounted concurrently by cloud or on-premises deployments. SMB Azure file shares are accessible from Windows, Linux, and macOS clients. NFS Azure file shares are accessible from Linux or macOS clients. Additionally, SMB Azure file shares can be cached on Windows servers with Azure File Sync for fast access near where the data is being used.

Key Resources

Homepage: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/
Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/files/
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News

Date News
9/14/2023
Azure Backup now supports Azure Files in China North2, China East 2, China North 3, and China East 3
8/8/2023
Migrate your SMB shares to Azure file shares with Azure Storage Mover.
6/26/2023
Introduction JupyterLab is a web-based interactive development environment for working with data, code, and visualization. Azure App Service is a platform for hosting web applications in the...
6/15/2023
    Introduction In a previous blob post we showed how to deploy an optimal NDm_v4 AKS cluster, i.e. all 8 InfiniBand and GPU drivers on each NDm_v4 are installed correctly. We then verified...
6/6/2023
With this announcement, cloud native and modern applications that use REST APIs to access Azure SMB shares can utilize identity-based authentication and authorization to access file shares.
5/31/2023
Azure Files has increased the root directory handle limit per share from 2,000 to 10,000 for standard and premium file shares.
5/24/2023
Azure Files geo-redundancy for large file shares is now in public preview for standard SMB file shares.
5/24/2023
Az-HOP in the Azure Marketplace   Introduction   Azure HPC On-Demand Platform, or Az-HOP, provides an end-to-end deployment mechanism for a base HPC infrastructure on Azure. The platform includes...
5/12/2023
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5/10/2023
In this blog we will talk about how SAP ECS uses Azure Files NFS shares as part of their default deployment and we’ll also announce some of the big NFS feature we’ve been working over the past...
4/25/2023
Azure App Service Web Apps has been around for many years now and has for a long time been  a very reliable and performant product for running highly utilized workloads.  One of the...
4/19/2023
Linux SMB clients can now use Azure Files identity based authentication and authorization. This capability is available to devices that are domain joined to either customer-managed Microsoft AD...
4/12/2023
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3/29/2023
Persist data in Azure Container Apps via mounted volumes.
3/27/2023
Azure Files NFS v4.1 share now support nconnect option.
3/9/2023
You can now transfer the backups of Azure Files to the vault to get complete protection against various data loss scenarios.
11/21/2022
Hugo Meiland (hugo.meiland@microsoft.com) Gareth O’Brien (o.gareth@microsoft.com)   With this blog / paper we demonstrate using object storage as the direct back end for running HPC applications...
11/10/2022
  When deploying an HPC Pack workload to the Azure public cloud, until recently, it could be challenging to deploy a highly available, Active Directory-integrated file share to host your SMB...
9/25/2022
Azure Cloud Shell automatically has the latest version of Terraform installed. Also, as Terraform is run from the cloud it automatically uses information from the current Azure subscription and...