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RSS feedFebruary 2023
Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre
Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system
Read-write premium caching now in public preview
Now you can do more with Azure HPC Cache at the same cost you’ve come to expect.
Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service introduces two pricing tiers: Free and Standard
Identify and use the most appropriate AKS tier for your projects.
December 2022
Public preview: New Memory Optimized VM sizes - E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5
New VM sizes provide the best remote storage performance of any Azure VMs to date. You can now process more data with fewer vCPUs while potentially reducing software licensing costs.
November 2022
Public preview: Azure HX series and HBv4 series virtual machines
Perfect for a range of HPC workloads, these new virtual machines series can give you a significant performance boost over our previous HB generation series.
General availability: Arm-based VMs now available in four additional Azure regions
The Azure Arm-based VMs are now available in four more regions.
General availability: DR secondary free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Optimize business costs by licensing your Disaster Recovery secondary for free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
Public preview: License Geo-redundant Disaster Recovery for SQL Managed Instance for free
Save on business continuity costs and license geographically redundant Disaster Recovery with Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Generally available: Increasing Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance up to 77%
Faster Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance at no cost.
October 2022
General availability: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
Premium SSD v2 is the next generation Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. It offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price-performance.
General availability: Azure savings plan for compute
Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Azure savings plan for compute.
General availability: Azure Stack HCI new features release
Get the latest features release, version 22H2, for Azure Stack HCI.
Public preview: New Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Spot Virtual Machines capabilities
You can now include standard VMs and Spot VMs in the same Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set. New VM-series are now supported with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode.
General availability: AMD confidential VM guest attestation
Guest attestation enables verifying the trustworthiness (good state) of the trusted execution environment on which the guest VM is executing.
General availability: Confidential VM option for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Run your SQL Server workloads on the latest AMD-backed confidential virtual machines, ensuring protection of data in use.
Preview: Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework
Confidential Consortium Framework is a new Azure service that lets you use open-source for building and managing multi-party applications that require decentralized trust and governance in a trusted network.
In development: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3
Using the new Isolated v2 SKUs, you can now run larger and more complex workloads.
Generally available: Azure Hybrid Benefit for AKS and Azure Stack HCI
We are expanding Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server Software Assurance (SA) customers to easily modernize with Azure, wherever they are.
Public preview: Azure Elastic SAN
Azure Elastic SAN is industry's first fully managed storage area network (SAN) offering in the cloud providing an end-to-end experience similar to on-premises SAN.
September 2022
Generally available: Reserved capacity for Azure Backup Storage
Reserved capacity for Azure Backup Storage is now available.
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