Azure Elastic SAN Roadmap

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Azure Elastic SAN is an Azure-hosted storage area network (SAN) service that provides managed storage volumes accessible via iSCSI for Azure VMs and container-based workloads.

Product: Azure Elastic SAN

Near Term (2025–2026)

Since its introduction in Feb. 2024, the most notable enhancement to Elastic SAN is support for Azure Backup. The feature was first announced in July 2024 but was not in public preview until May 2025, making it difficult to estimate when it will be generally available.

Elastic SAN is a relatively recent addition to Azure and has yet to be rolled out to all regions. In addition, some regions support both zone redundant storage (ZRS) and locally redundant storage (LRS) while others support LRS only.

Long Term (Beyond 2026)

Many organizations rely on SANs as part of their on-premises infrastructure, so having a cloud native offering is important part of Microsoft’s efforts to enable lift-and-shift of large-scale workloads.

Microsoft will almost certainly continue to make Elastic SAN available with both redundancy options in more regions.

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