Windows Azure has added eight new features, including new mobile services, website scaling, and data sync. Vice President Scott Guthrie detailed the new features on his blog.

Cloud Sync supports many public cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, AWS S3, GCP Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.

Microsoft this week announced that its Azure File Sync service, used for enabling centralized file shares, has reached 'general availability' status.

Azure File Sync also doesn't work with servers that use the NTFS Encrypted File System. The maximum size of a file share of Azure Files is 5TiB, but Microsoft is working to increase it to 100 TiB, ...