Public Preview of Azure Container Storage enabled by Azure Arc Edge Volumes

Release Summary

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Azure Container Storage supported by Azure Arc Edge Volumes. This is a groundbreaking addition to Azure storage solutions, designed to transform data processing at the edge. Explore the capabilities of Edge Volumes in this Public Preview and experience the benefits of an advanced edge storage solution first-hand.

Key competencies

Local Edge Volume: Shared read-write storage without cloud dependency

• High availability storage: Provides resilient, failover-capable storage that remains online and accessible even when not networked to cloud infrastructure.
• Various use cases: Ideal for persistent scratch space, temporary storage, and local application state data, ensuring continuous operation and data accessibility at the edge.

Cloud Edge Volumes: Collect data in the cloud while allowing network disconnections

• Data collection: Ingest file data from the edge into Azure storage, including Blob, ADLSgen2, and OneLake/Fabric, in a seamless, application-transparent manner.

• Custom capacity: After the upload to the cloud is confirmed, the local copy is removed to ensure continued space availability.

• Network outage resilience: Even if your network connection is lost, your data is preserved and stored in an upload queue, so there is no data loss.

profit

• Enhanced data integrity: Based on basic data integrity features, it ensures stable data processing even in environments with occasional disconnections.

• Optimized local resource utilization: Ideal for IoT and retail applications, Edge Volumes optimize local resources while maintaining robust data management.

• Simplified application development: Take advantage of cloud data targets while writing to local file systems using standard file I/O APIs, and streamline your application codebase and development process.

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