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Monthly updates for Virtual Machines: December 2019
Serial console for Azure Virual Machines now available in US Government Cloud
Serial console is now available in preview in the Azure US Government Cloud, allowing customers in the government-only clouds to access the serial console of their VMs or virtual machine scale set instances.
Azure Monitor for VMs now stores data in dedicated data types
Azure Monitor for virtual machines (VMs) now stores computer-related and process-related data in dedicated data types, making it simpler to query against as well as offering quicker data ingestion.
Azure Service Map now stores data in dedicated data types
Service Map now stores computer-related and process-related data in dedicated data types, making it simpler to query against as well as offering quicker data ingestion.
Proximity placement groups are now available
Proximity placement groups – an Azure Virtual Machine logical grouping capability to decrease inter-VM network latency – is now available.
HC-Series High Performance Computing VMs now available in South Central US
HC-Series VMs are now available in South Central US
Azure Spot VMs now in preview
Buy unused compute capacity at deep discounts and run interruptible workloads at scale with Azure Spot VMs now in Preview.
Azure Dedicated Hosts now generally available
A new Azure service that provides physical servers capable of hosting one or more Azure virtual machines. The server is dedicated to your organisation and workloads.
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