Updates Archives
Monthly updates for November 2019
Azure generation 2 virtual machines (VMs) are now generally available
Generation 2 VMs are now generally available in Azure. New available features include Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX), support for large VMs (up to 12 TB) and the ability to provision OS Disk sizes that exceed 2 TB.
New Azure Dav4-series and Eav4-series virtual machines are now available.
New Azure Dav4-series and Eav4-series virtual machines (VMs) based on AMD EPYC™ are now available. They are ideal for general purpose and memory-intensive workloads.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift hourly prices
Announcing the possibility to use hourly pay-as-you-go prices straight away for Azure Red Hat OpenShift without the need to pre-purchase reserved instances.
Support for multiple-node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service is now available
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) support for multiple-node pools, now generally available, allows you to use different virtual machine sizes in each pool to run various workloads in a single AKS cluster.
New virtual machine scale sets capabilities are now in preview
New virtual machine scale sets features simplify the management of virtual machines while improving their runtime and performance capabilities.
Azure Bastion is now generally available
At Ignite 2019, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Bastion, a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) service that provides more secure and seamless RDP and SSH access to virtual machines directly through the Azure portal.
Azure Functions Premium plan is now generally available
Announcing the general availability of the Azure Functions Premium plan. It brings together dynamic, serverless scale with all the benefits of our dedicated hosting plans. Your functions run with no cold start, can run for up to an hour, can connect to virtual networks, and can run on customisable, more powerful resources.
Simplify ML workloads with Azure Machine Learning events now in Event Grid
Azure Machine Learning becomes a first-party event publisher for Azure Event Grid, publishing events about model training, model registration, model deployment and data drift detection
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