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March 2024

Mar 1

Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024.

  • Cloud Services
  • Retirements

January 2024

Jan 26

Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Migrate your cloud services to a new deployment model before 31 August 2024.

  • Cloud Services
  • Retirements

October 2022

Oct 21

Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Migrate your cloud services to a new deployment model before 31 August 2024.

  • Cloud Services
  • Retirements

April 2022

Apr 11

Generally available: DNS reservations to prevent subdomain takeover in Cloud Services deployments

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2022

As a preventive measure, DNS record is reserved for seven days to allow clean-up of dangling DNS domains or reclaim from same Azure Active Directory tenant only.

  • Cloud Services
  • Features
  • Security

March 2022

Mar 9

Public preview: Azure Chaos Studio Key Vault and Classic Cloud Services faults

IN PREVIEW

Azure Chaos Studio has new faults available for denying access to a Key Vault and shutting down a Classic Cloud Service.

  • Azure Chaos Studio
  • Key Vault
  • Cloud Services
  • Management
  • Features
  • Security

August 2021

Aug 24

Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: August 31, 2024

Migrate your cloud services to a new deployment model before 31 August 2024.

  • Cloud Services
  • Retirements

July 2021

Jul 7

General availability: Transition to Cloud Services (extended support) with new migration tool

NOW AVAILABLE

Accelerate your transition to Cloud Services (extended support) in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) using the new tool that provides a seamless and fully orchestrated migration of your Cloud Services (classic) deployments.

  • Cloud Services
  • Features

April 2021

Apr 5

Public preview: Announcing platform support migration of Azure Cloud Services (classic) to Azure Resource Manager

IN PREVIEW

Seamless, fully orchestrated, no downtime for most scenarios and minimal effort migration path for your existing Cloud Services (classic) deployments.

  • Cloud Services
  • Features

June 2020

Jun 16

Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines is now in preview in US Gov Arizona

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines is now available in preview in US Gov Arizona. It's also available in an additional eighteen public regions around the world.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Cloud Services
  • Regions & Datacenters

May 2020

May 26

Azure Monitor for VMs is now in preview in US Gov Virginia

IN PREVIEW

Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines is now available in US Gov Virginia. It's also available in an additional eighteen public regions around the world.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Cloud Services
  • Regions & Datacenters

December 2019

Dec 17

Azure Monitor for VMs now stores data in dedicated data types

NOW AVAILABLE

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 Monitor
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Cloud Services
  • Features
Dec 17

Azure Service Map now stores data in dedicated data types

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Cloud Services
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Features

October 2019

Oct 28

Azure Monitor's Service Map is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia, and Central India

NOW AVAILABLE

The Service Map feature of Azure Monitor is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia, and Central India, so it's now available in eighteen public regions around the world.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Cloud Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
Oct 28

Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia, and Central India regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia, and Central India. It's available around the world in eighteen public regions.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Cloud Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
Oct 15

Updates to Azure Monitor for virtual machines (preview) before general availability release

IN PREVIEW

Updates to Azure Monitor for virtual machines (preview) will be launched in mid-November, 2019, ahead of the general availability (GA) release.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Cloud Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
Oct 14

Upcoming changes for Service Map data stored in Log Analytics

NOW AVAILABLE

Updates for Service Map are coming that will change where we store some of our data in Log Analytics. These updates should be completed sometime in November, 2019.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Cloud Services
  • Azure Monitor
  • Features

April 2019

Apr 18

Azure Traffic Manager will stop automatically enabling, disabling, or deleting endpoints for Azure Cloud Services on May 1, 2019

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: May 01, 2019

Currently, Azure Traffic Manager can automatically enable, disable, or delete endpoints when starting, stopping, or deleting the corresponding cloud service. However, this option will be retired on May 1, 2019, and you’ll need to manually enable, disable, or delete profile endpoints in Traffic Manager when starting, stopping, or deleting a cloud service. You’ll continue to be billed for the endpoints unless they are manually disabled or deleted.

  • Traffic Manager
  • Cloud Services
  • Services
  • Retirements

March 2018

Mar 6

Name changes: Virtual Machines B-series US Gov

NOW AVAILABLE

Virtual Machines B-series naming will change on May 1, 2018, in all Azure Government regions.

  • Cloud Services

November 2017

Nov 13

Retiring Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services from the classic portal

Starting November 15, 2017, Virtual Machines and Cloud Services will be available only in the Azure portal.

  • Cloud Services
  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features

August 2017

Aug 23

Azure Cloud Shell: Generate scripts by using mssql-scripter

Use mssql-scripter, an open-source command-line interface, to generate database scripts in Azure Cloud Shell.

  • Cloud Shell
  • Cloud Services
  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Management

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