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

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Azure Container Storage enabled by Azure Arc Edge Volumes, a versatile new addition to our Azure storage solutions designed to enhance data handling at the edge. Edge Volumes offers two key capabilities: Local Shared Volume and Cloud Ingest Volume. The Local Shared Volume provides high-availability, failover-capable storage that remains online and accessible despite lack of network connectivity to cloud infrastructure, ideal for persistent scratch space, temporary storage, and local application-state data. The Cloud Ingest Volume facilitates application-transparent limitless data ingestion of file data from edge to Blob storage, including ADLSgen2 and OneLake. The ingest storage capacity is user-defined to ensure continuous space availability during disconnection, and later purging local copies after confirmed uploads to blob. Both solutions build upon foundational data integrity capabilities to support data integrity in disconnected environments, while optimizing local resource utilization which is ideal for IoT applications. Using Edge Volumes, you can write to a local file system using standard file I/O APIs, and benefit from simplifying your application codebase. We invite you to explore these capabilities in this Public Preview and experience the benefits of advanced edge storage solutions firsthand.

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