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Public preview availability of Virtual Machine restore points
Take multi-disk consistent point in time snapshots of all the disks attached to a VM for backup and disaster recovery purposes.
November 2021
Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCv3-series now available in Europe West and North
Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in Europe West and Europe North.
General availability: Run Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Kubernetes Service
An automated solution template to run Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS) on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), jointly developed with Oracle, is now available in the Azure Marketplace.
Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series now available
New DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series Azure Virtual Machines transform the state-of-the-art for confidential workloads.
July 2021
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements July 2021
New features Custom Containers in Managed Online Endpoints and Job Creation UI are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning.
June 2021
Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series are now available in Australia
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in Australia
April 2021
Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series now available in public preview in Azure Government
Azure Government customers can build secure, enclave-based applications to protect code and data while it’s in use, in a dedicated cloud that meets stringent government security and compliance requirements.
March 2021
Limited preview: Make workloads on AMD-backed virtual machines confidential without recompiling code
Azure and AMD announce landmark in confidential computing evolution -- it is now even easier to extend your protection of data at rest and data in transit to protect data in use.
February 2021
Azure Batch ‘CloudServiceConfiguration’ pools will be retired on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to Azure Batch Virtual Machine pool configuration by 29 February 2024.
January 2021
Azure Service Fabric Mesh Preview Retirement
Target retirement date: April 28, 2021
Today, we are announcing the retirement of the Azure Service Fabric Mesh public preview. New deployments will no longer be available but we will continue to support existing deployments until April 28, 2021.
October 2020
Azure Monitor Log Analytics data export is in public preview
You can now enable continuous data export from your Log Analytics workspaces to an Azure Storage Account or Azure Event Hubs.
September 2020
App Service introduces the new Pv3 SKU for Windows and Linux customers
App Service announces general availability of new Premiumv3 offering delivering increased performance and memory headroom for Windows and Linux customers, now with Reservations pricing and dev/test capabilities.
August 2020
Azure Cloud Shell can now run in an isolated virtual network (public preview)
Cloud Shell now supports virtual networks.
July 2020
Shared disks in Azure Disk Storage are now available
Shared disks are now available in Azure Disk Storage—the only shared block storage in the cloud that supports both Windows and Linux-based clustered or high-availability applications.
Azure Load Balancer support for IP-based backend pool management is in preview
Azure Load Balancer now supports adding and removing resources from a backend pool via an IPv4 or IPv6 addresses and virtual network ID. This will enable you to easily manage the containers, virtual machines, and virtual machine scale sets associated with their load balancer. It will also allow IP addresses to be reserved as part of a backend pool before the associated resources are created.
May 2020
Azure Container Registry support for Azure Private Link and firewall is now available
Container Registry support for Private Link and ingress firewall, a means to limit the network traffic of resources within a virtual network, is now generally available.
March 2020
Azure Stack HCI with accelerated AI and machine learning
Target availability: Q2 2020
Deploy accelerated AI cloud workloads and your own business logic, as well as other Azure services, to run on Azure Stack HCI via standard containers by using GPUs with Azure IoT Edge. This is done by using an NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU) with Azure Stack HCI using discrete device assignment (DDA) technology and running Azure IoT Edge in an Ubuntu virtual machine.
Azure Container Registry support for Private Link now in preview
Azure Container Registry now supports Private Link, a means to limit network traffic of resources within the virtual network.
Azure Security Center—Protection for Azure Kubernetes Service is now available
Target availability: Q2 2020
Azure Security Center is expanding its container security features to protect Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Azure Shared Disks for clustered applications preview now available
Azure Shared Disks is a shared block storage offering, enabling customers to run latency-sensitive workloads without compromising on well-known deployment patterns for fast failover and high availability.
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