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

Release Summary

We are thrilled to announce the Public Preview of Azure Container Storage enabled by Azure Arc Edge Volumes, a groundbreaking addition to our Azure storage solutions, designed to revolutionize data handling at the edge. We invite you to explore the capabilities of Edge Volumes in this Public Preview and experience the benefits of advanced edge storage solutions firsthand.

Key Capabilities

Local Edge Volume: Shared ReadWriteMany storage with no cloud dependencies

High-Availability Storage: Provides resilient, failover-capable storage that remains online and accessible even without network connectivity to cloud infrastructure.
Versatile 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 Volume: Ingest data to cloud while tolerating network disconnections

Data Ingestion: Enables seamless, application-transparent ingestion of file data from the edge to Azure storage, including Blob, ADLSgen2, and OneLake/Fabric.

User-Defined Capacity: Ensures continuous space availability by purging local copies after confirmed uploads to the cloud.

Network Outage Flexibility: Data is retained and queued for upload during network disconnections, so your data is never lost.

Benefits

Enhanced Data Integrity: Built upon foundational data integrity capabilities, ensuring reliable data handling in intermittently disconnected environments.

Optimized Local Resource Utilization: Perfect for IoT and Retail applications, Edge Volumes optimize local resources while maintaining robust data management.

Simplified Application Development: Write to a local file system using standard file I/O APIs, but still get the benefits of cloud data destinations, simplifying your application codebase and development process.