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Monthly updates for Virtual Machines: February 2020
Migrate your IaaS resources to Azure Resource Manager by 1 March 2023
Target retirement date: March 01, 2023
We encourage you to make the switch to Azure Resource Manager to take advantage of the many feature enhancements in ARM.
A8-A11 Azure Virtual Machine sizes will be retired on 1 March 2021
Target retirement date: March 01, 2021
We recommend moving your high-performance computing (HPC) workloads to another HPC Virtual Machine size.
Virtual Machines NVv4 series meter name changes
Effective 1 April 2020, the meter names of Virtual Machines NVv4 series will change because they will become generally available in West Europe and South Central and East US regions.
New AMD-based Dav4 and Eav4 Azure VMs are available in additional regions
New Azure Dav4-series and Eav4-series virtual machines based on the latest AMD EPYC™ 7452 processor are now available in East US, East US2, West US2, Southeast Asia, North and West Europe regions.
HBv2-Series VMs are now generally available
We are announcing general availability of HBv2 Virtual Machines for high-performance computing. HBv2 VMs are designed to provide supercomputing levels of performance and MPI scalability at on-premises competitive economics.
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