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Azure Shared Image Gallery--New features are now generally available
Shared Image Gallery introduces new features to copy image versions, use disks or VMs to create image versions, and export a managed from an image version.
Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines Guest Health is in public preview
Announcing the Public Preview of the Guest Health feature of Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines, that monitors the health of your virtual machines and fires an alert when any of the parameters being monitored are outside the acceptable range.
New SAP HANA Certified Memory-Optimized Virtual Machines now available
We are expanding our SAP HANA certifications, enabling you to run production SAP HANA workloads on the Edsv4 virtual machines sizes.
New constrained vCPUs capable VMs now available
The latest memory optimized Azure VM series Esv4, Edsv4, and Easv4 now offer new constrained vCPU VM sizes.
October 2020
New Azure Spot Virtual Machines features
You can now access the price history of Spot Virtual Machines and the eviction rate for the past 28 trailing days in the Azure portal.
September 2020
Confidential computing nodes (DCSv2) support on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in public preview
Orchestrate your container applications with hardware based isolation and data-in-use protection through Intel SGX enclaves. Supporting both enclave aware containers and confidential containers (unmodified container apps)
General availability: Azure Availability Zones in more regions
Azure Availability Zones are now generally available in Australia East and Canada Central.
New maintenance control features
Increase control over maintenance operations and ensure higher availability for your business-critical applications with two new features now in preview. You can now schedule host maintenance operations in addition to the already available manual updates. Additionally, we are adding the ability for you to control when guest OS image updates on Virtual Machine Scale Sets are rolled out.
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 support for up to 32 disks is now generally available
Azure Backup now supports Azure Virtual Machines with up to 32 attached managed disks.
New Azure Dedicated Hosts capabilities
Azure can now select the dedicated host to which your VM is deployed. Additionally, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets can be deployed in conjunction with Dedicated Hosts.
Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series are now available in Southeast Asia
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in East US, Canada Central, Canada East, Southeast Asia, UK South, West Europe, and West US 2.
Automatic VM guest patching is now in public preview
Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance.
New Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads now available
The new D v4 and E v4 series Azure Virtual Machines feature the Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL custom processor, can achieve up to 3.4Ghz all core turbo frequency, and offer up to 504 GiB of RAM.
Azure Dedicated Hosts now support new Azure Virtual Machines series
You can now run Dsv4, Ddsv4, Esv4, and Edsv4 Azure VMs on Dedicated Hosts. The new Dedicated Hosts SKUs are based on the Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL (Cascade Lake) processor, which offers improved performance compared to the previous generation.
August 2020
Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series are now available in Canada East
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in East US, Canada Central, Canada East, UK South, West Europe, and West US 2.
New GPU NCas T4 v3 VMs are in public preview
NCas T4 v3 Series VMs are now available for preview in US West 2.
July 2020
SR-IOV availability on InfiniBand-equipped Virtual Machines
We will be enabling support for all MPI implementations and RDMA verbs for InfiniBand-equipped virtual machines. This greatly increases ability and options for leveraging InfiniBand for your workloads.
SR-IOV availability schedule on on InfiniBand-equipped Virtual Machines
As part of Azure’s ongoing commitment to providing industry-leading performance, we are enabling support for all MPI types and versions, and RDMA verbs for InfiniBand-equipped virtual machines on the following schedule.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports confidential workloads through DCSv2 SKUs (private preview)
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports confidential workloads through integration with DCSv2 SKU node pools powered by Intel SGX.
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