Lower costs and boost flexibility with Azure Files provisioned v2

For enterprise IT professionals or startup developers alike, cost efficiency for file storage is top of mind. Whether you’re running mission-critical databases, production scale applications like SAP, or cloud native applications using file storage on AKS, your storage infrastructure should adapt to your workload – not the other way around.…

14/08/2025Azure Storage Blog

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