Azure updates

Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage

Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0.

• Managed Disks
• Azure Disk Storage
• Virtual Machines
• Windows Virtual Machines
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Features

Generally Available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 now supported on Azure Virtual Machines

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.9 is the latest minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, which provides stability and security for production environments along with bug fixes and enhancements for improved performance and reliability. It also includes more features and capabilities to help customers customize their operating environment while maintaining the consistency needed for more efficient management and deployment across varied infrastructures.

• Linux Virtual Machines
• Red Hat Linux
• Operating System
• Open Source

Generally Available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 now supported on Azure Virtual Machines

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3, the latest version of RHEL 9 from Red Hat is now generally available on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Availability of RHEL 9.3 for VMs on Azure is a step forward towards offering a more scalable, flexible Linux platform that pairs container innovation with a strong security posture.

• Linux Virtual Machines
• Red Hat Linux
• Operating System
• Open Source

Generally Available: Azure Monitor VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent

VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent provides various benefits like cost savings, simplified management experience and enhanced security & performance.

• Azure Monitor
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Windows Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Services
• Features

Public Preview : Crash Consistent VM Restore points

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

Generally Available: Azure Linux support in AKS

Deploy Azure Linux as the node pool host OS in the AKS cluster and build apps on top of the preferred container.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Microsoft Build
• Features

Automatic VM guest patching is now generally available

Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance.

• Virtual Machines
• Windows Virtual Machines
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Security
• Microsoft Ignite
• Features

Public preview: Azure Automanage now supports Arc enabled servers

Now you can automatically onboard your Arc enabled servers to best practice Azure management services using Azure Automanage, saving time and manual management effort.

• Virtual Machines
• Windows Virtual Machines
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Services
• Management
• Features

Automatic VM guest patching is now in public preview for Linux VMs

Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance.

• Virtual Machines
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Security
• Features

Selective disks backup for Azure Virtual Machines

Using the Selective disks backup feature, you get an option to backup subset of the data disks in an Azure Virtual Machine.

• Azure Backup
• Virtual Machines
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Features

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bring-Your-Own-Subscription Gold Images now Generally Available in Azure

Target availability: Q1 2020

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) bring-your-own-subscription (BYOS) images, also referred to as RHEL Gold images, are now generally available in Azure with a simple automated sign-up process. This new automated sign-up process provides faster and simpler access to the gold images.

• Virtual Machines
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Red Hat Linux
• Services
• Pricing & Offerings
• Operating System
• Gallery
• Open Source

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.

• Virtual Machines
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Windows Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Services
• Regions & Datacenters
• Management
• Operating System
• Features
• Open Source

Azure Virtual Machine PowerOff now available with fast shutdown

You can now quickly and forcefully power off (stop) your Azure VM with the new skipShutdown flag.

• Virtual Machines
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Windows Virtual Machines
• SDK and Tools

Feature update: Serial console for Azure Virtual Machines

Target availability: Q1 2019

The serial console for Azure Virtual Machines has been updated to add VM reboot and additional fonts to choose from.

• Virtual Machines
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Windows Virtual Machines
• Services
• Management
• Operating System
• Features
• Open Source

General availability: Serial console for Azure VMs

Serial console for Azure VMs is generally available with new features and many bug fixes and improvements.

• Virtual Machines
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Windows Virtual Machines
• Services
• Operating System
• Features
• Open Source