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July 2023

18 Jul

Public Preview : Crash Consistent VM Restore points

IN PREVIEW

For Azure partners and customers seeking to develop business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, crash-consistent VM restore points serve as feature-rich building blocks, offering an agentless solution available natively on the Azure platform.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

June 2023

13 Jun

General availability: Azure HX Virtual Machines for HPC

NOW AVAILABLE

HX-series VMs for HPC are now generally available in the Azure East US region.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build
13 Jun

General availability: Azure HBv4 Virtual Machines for HPC

NOW AVAILABLE

HBv4-series VMs for HPC are now generally available in the Azure East US region.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build
13 Jun

Public preview: Introducing NGads V620 Series VMs optimized for cloud gaming

IN PREVIEW

VGads V620 series virtual machines (VMs), now in public preview in the East US2, Europe west, and West US3 regions, enable service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
1 Jun

Public preview: Introducing NGads V620-series VMs optimized for cloud gaming

IN PREVIEW

VGads V620-series virtual machines (VMs), now in public preview in the East US2, Europe west, and West US3 regions, enable service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings

May 2023

23 May

Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2 support for AMD confidential VMs

IN PREVIEW

User of AMD-based confidential VMs can now select the RHEL 9.2 technical preview as their guest OS.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build
  • Security
  • Operating System
  • Features
  • Open Source
3 May

Generally Available: Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 NVMe-enabled VM sizes

NOW AVAILABLE

The new NVMe-enabled VM sizes of the Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VM offer the highest remote storage IOPS and throughput performance of any Azure VMs to date. 

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings

April 2023

3 Apr

General Availability: New General-Purpose VMs - Dlsv5 and Dldsv5

NOW AVAILABLE

The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services

March 2023

15 Mar

Public Preview: Selective Disk Backup and Restore in Enhanced Policy for Azure VM Backup

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q1 2023

We are adding the “Selective Disk Backup and Restore” capability in Enhanced Policy of Azure VM Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Virtual Machines
  • Features
13 Mar

General availability: Ephemeral OS disks supports encryption at host using customer managed keys

NOW AVAILABLE

Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for encryption at host.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

February 2023

20 Feb

Public preview: New General-Purpose VMs - Dlsv5 and Dldsv5

IN PREVIEW

The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
1 Feb

General availability: Trusted launch for Azure VMs in Azure for US Government regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Allows you to enable secure boot, vTPM, virtualisation-based security and Microsoft Defender for Cloud integration, providing additional layers of defence against sophisticated threats.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Security
  • Features

November 2022

30 Nov

General availability: 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers

NOW AVAILABLE

With an Azure free account, you can explore with free amounts of 55+ always free services.

  • Media Services
  • Container Registry
  • Service Bus
  • Load Balancer
  • Virtual Machines
  • Key Vault
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Files
  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Security
30 Nov

Public preview: Azure HX series and HBv4 series virtual machines

IN PREVIEW

Perfect for a range of HPC workloads, these new virtual machines series can give you a significant performance boost over our previous HB generation series.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
16 Nov

General availability: Arm-based VMs now available in four additional Azure regions

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Arm-based VMs are now available in four more regions.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Regions & Datacenters
2 Nov

General availability: Ephemeral OS disk support for confidential virtual machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Create confidential VMs using Ephemeral OS disks for your stateless workloads.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

October 2022

18 Oct

General availability: Azure savings plan for compute

NOW AVAILABLE

Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Azure savings plan for compute.

  • App Service
  • Container Instances
  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Azure Dedicated Host
  • Azure functions
  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
12 Oct

Public preview: New Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Spot Virtual Machines capabilities

IN PREVIEW

You can now include standard VMs and Spot VMs in the same Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set. New VM-series are now supported with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
12 Oct

General availability: AMD confidential VM guest attestation

NOW AVAILABLE

Guest attestation enables verifying the trustworthiness (good state) of the trusted execution environment on which the guest VM is executing.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
10 Oct

General availability: New Azure proximity placement groups feature

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now use the new optional parameter “intent” to specify the VM sizes and zone intended for the proximity placement group.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

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