Tag: Azure Updates

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Microsoft Azure now allows free egress of data transfer out to the internet when leaving Azure

Unknown's avatar on March 15, 2024

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it would follow suit with Google and Amazon in eliminating Azure egress fees. The following outlines Azure’s commitment to customer choice and details the process for transferring data out of Azure with financial incentives.

Free Egress Offer

Azure now provides free data egress for customers leaving Azure, allowing them to transfer their data to another cloud provider or on-premises data center without incurring internet fees.

Eligibility and Process

The first 100GB/month is free globally. For additional data transfer, customers must contact Azure Support and follow specific instructions to be eligible for the credit.

Data Transfer Credit

Once the data transfer is complete and all associated Azure subscriptions are cancelled, Azure Support will apply the credit.

Compliance with Data Act

This policy aligns with the European Data Act and is available to all Azure customers worldwide.

Reference

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/now-available-free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-leaving-azure

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Microsoft Azure Roadmap and Updates

Unknown's avatar on January 15, 2018

Azure has three areas online where you can go to keep up to date with Azure updates and what the roadmap is for certain products within Azure.

Microsoft Cloud Platform Roadmap

The Microsoft Cloud Platform Roadmap provides a snapshot of what Microsoft is working on in their cloud platform business. From here you can use the roadmap to find out what they’re recently made generally available, released to public preview, are still developing and testing, or what’s no longer being developed. You can search by Product Category and/or Status.

For Product Category you have the following categories:

  • Application development
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • Data management and analytics
  • Enterprise Mobility + Security
  • Internet of Things

For Status type you can search by the following types:

  • All
  • In Development
  • In Preview
  • Now Available

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For each result there is a date of when it was last updated and then a status of either In Development, In Preview, and Now Available.

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Finally you can can click the Learn more link for further details about this update.

Azure Roadmap

The Azure Roadmap page shows you where they’re heading and any upcoming changes to Azure products. This is the place to find out what’s new

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Azure Updates

The Azure Updates page allows you to see all the updates in one place. You can filter by product, update type and even platform.

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Enjoy!

References

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/roadmap/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/roadmap/