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

Windows Server customers can now centralize their file share management and keep spare copies on Microsoft's cloud.

The Azure File Sync service, which Microsoft first unveiled at last year's Ignite conference and is designed to enable centralized file shares, is now generally available.

Azure File Sync will replicate data from Windows Server to Azure and also to other servers around an organisation's fleet.

A few months after the preview of large file shares in Azure Files, the feature is now generally available. A bunch of new capabilities have been added to it during this time period.