Azure Container Storage enabled by Azure Arc [Previously named “Edge Storage Accelerator”] – 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 and experience the benefits of advanced edge storage solutions firsthand.
At the edge, customers have many struggles with data: sharing, resiliency, storage capacity, space management, and cloud connection, among others. We are proud to announce Azure Container Storage enabled by Azure Arc, a first-party Arc Extension designed to solve these customer Kubernetes storage challenges.
ACSA offers a fault tolerant, highly available, persistent ReadWriteMany file system using Kubernetes native PVCs. Simply write to an ACSA PVC as if it were your local file system.
ACSA offers two main storage configuration options. The Local Shared Edge Volume allows for shared ReadWriteMany storage that remains local to your Kubernetes cluster. This configuration is ideal for persistent application storage, such as databases, data historians, and other data processing scenarios.
The Ingest Cloud Edge Volume, ACSA’s second configuration option, uploads data written by applications to Azure storage destinations, such as Blob, ADLSgen2, and OneLake Fabric. Ingest volumes also have user configurable policies for flexibility of data upload throughput and ordering. ACSA follows security best practices by leveraging Managed Identity capabilities and always implementing the latest version of the Blob SDK. Cloud Edge Volumes are disconnection tolerant to losses in network connectivity: ACSA will continue to accept application writes and will automatically upload that data once the connection is reestablished.
ACSA accepts all file data you create at the edge, whether it be parquet files, time series data, photos, video, etc. With the option to keep it local to your Kubernetes cluster or send it to a cloud destination, ACSA can handle it for you.
ACSA is available as a standard component of the Azure IoT Operations GA release and is suitable for production workloads.
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