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Azure Bastion - RDP and SSH over SSL - now available for Preview
Fully managed service for seamless and secure RDP/SSH access to your virtual machines without public IP on the VM.
May 2019
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2. Around the world, it's available in seven public regions.
Azure Monitor for VMs has a new data set for bound ports
The VMBoundPort data set is now available for Azure Monitor for VMs customers in all supported Log Analytics workspace regions, including East US and West Europe.
Announcing Ephemeral OS Disk in Public Preview
We are happy to announce Ephemeral OS disk in Public Preview. Ephemeral OS disks work well for stateless workloads, where applications are tolerant of individual VM failures and are more concerned about the time it takes to deploy at scale or to reimage the individual VMs.
Azure Serial Console updated with VMSS support and improved language support
You may now use the Serial Console feature to troubleshoot connectivity issues in both VMs and individual VMSS instances in a variety of languages.
February 2019
M-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in the Korea South region
Azure M-series VMs are now available in the Korea South region. M-series VMs offer configurations with memory from 192 GB to 3.8 TiB (4 TB) RAM and are certified for SAP HANA.
October 2018
September 2018
General availability: Automatic OS image upgrade in virtual machine scale sets
It is easy to enable automatic OS image updates in Virtual machine scale sets for the most popular images.
April 2018
General availability: Azure zone-redundant snapshots and images for managed disks
Azure zone-redundant snapshots and images for Managed Disks are now generally available.
March 2018
General availability: Azure Scheduled Events
Azure Scheduled Events helps you react to maintenance events...before they happen.
Public preview: Low-priority VMs on virtual machine scale sets
Low-priority VMs on scale sets enable users to significantly save on costs for their fault-tolerant, flexible workloads.
Instance Metadata Service includes support for zones and virtual machine scale sets
Version 2017-12-01 of Instance Metadata Service is available in global Azure regions. It has support for Availability Zones and virtual machine scale sets.
February 2018
Public preview: Automatic OS image updates in virtual machine scale sets
A new capability is in preview: automatic guest OS image updates in scale sets.
November 2017
General availability: Azure Reserved VM Instances
Azure Reserved VM Instances are generally available.
May 2017
Introducing the Azure app (preview)
With the Azure mobile app, you can check status and critical metrics of your Azure resources, get notifications and alerts, and perform simple operations to resolve common issues.
February 2017
General availability: Azure Managed Disks and large scale sets
Azure Managed Disks and large scale sets are generally available.
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