News Summary

• Azure Container Storage with NVMe striping now provides approximately seven times higher IOPS and four times lower latency compared to the previous version.
• Postgres deployments show 60% higher transactions per second and over 30% reduction in latency when tested against Microsoft's own Postgres for AKS deployment guide.
• The architecture itself has been streamlined from multiple controllers and node daemons to a single lightweight operator plus CSI driver components.
• Microsoft has eliminated the per-gigabyte monthly fee previously charged for storage pools exceeding 5 TiB.