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Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent Upload to Storage and Event Hubs
Azure Monitor Agent can now upload to Azure Storage and Event Hubs.
Azure Advisor will no longer display aggregated potential yearly savings beginning 30 September 2024
Target retirement date: April 19, 2024
Learn how to continue calculating aggregated potential yearly savings.
General availability: HBv4-series & HX-series VMs are now available in Sweden Central.
HBv4 virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for various HPC workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, frontend and backend EDA, rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, and financial risk analysis. HX-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are optimized for large memory HPC workloads such as backend EDA, finite element analysis, computational geoscience, and big data analytics.
General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption availability in all regions
Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines.
GA: New Property for Disks-LastOwnershipUpdateTime
Introducing LastOwnershipUpdateTime for Disks in Azure Portal, PowerShell, and CLI. It indicates the last state change time for the Disk, useful for tracking its current state and when it was last updated.
Public preview: Backup and restore of virtual machines with private endpoint enabled disks
Azure Backup can now help you back up virtual machines using private endpoint-enabled disks. You can now also specify network settings to be used by the restored disks while initiating the restore process.
March 2024
Standard_NC24rs_v3 virtual machines will be retired on March 31st, 2025
Target retirement date: March 31, 2025
Standard_NC24rs_v3 virtual machines will be retired on March 31st, 2025
Standard_NC6s_v3, Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30, 2025
Standard_NC6s_v3, Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30, 2025
GA: Improved throughput performance on Azure Disks’ Standard SSD
Azure Disks Standard SSD throughput limits are now 100 MB/s on disks sized 8191 GBs and lower.
Public Preview: On-demand capacity reservations for Specialty SKUs
Target availability: Q2 2024
You can now reserve capacity with SLA for following Specialty VM sizes, Mv3 series, NC-series (v3 and newer), NV-series (v2 and newer), and Lsv2 series
General Availability: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature.
Support for Standard_M192idms_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027
Target retirement date: March 14, 2027
Community support for Standard_M192idms_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
Community support for Standard_M192ids_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
Target retirement date: March 18, 2027
Support for Standard_M192ids_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027
Community support for Standard_M192is_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
Support for Standard_M192is_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.
Community support for Standard_M192ims_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
Target retirement date: March 19, 2027
Support for Standard_M192ims_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.
Generally Available: Windows Gen 2 VM support in AKS
YOu can now use Gen 2 VM SKUs for Windows nodepools in AKS.
Public preview: Trusted launch support in AKS
Administrators can now deploy AKS nodes with verified and signed bootloaders, OS kernels, and drivers.
General availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption now in additional regions
Azure Virtual Network encryption is a feature of Azure Virtual Networks. Virtual network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines. Now available in additional regions.
February 2024
General Availability: Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in more regions.
Encryption at host for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks is now available in Canada East, West Europe, South Central US and West US 3.
Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup
General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.
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