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February 2023

22 Feb

Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre

IN PREVIEW

Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system

  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Pricing & Offerings
20 Feb

Read-write premium caching now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Now you can do more with Azure HPC Cache at the same cost you’ve come to expect.

  • Azure HPC Cache
  • Pricing & Offerings
1 Feb

Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service introduces two pricing tiers: Free and Standard

NOW AVAILABLE

Identify and use the most appropriate AKS tier for your projects.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

December 2022

6 Dec

Public preview: New Memory Optimized VM sizes - E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Pricing & Offerings

November 2022

30 Nov

Public preview: Azure HX series and HBv4 series virtual machines

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
16 Nov

General availability: Arm-based VMs now available in four additional Azure regions

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Arm-based VMs are now available in four more regions.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Regions & Datacenters
16 Nov

General availability: DR secondary free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Optimize business costs by licensing your Disaster Recovery secondary for free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
16 Nov

Public preview: License Geo-redundant Disaster Recovery for SQL Managed Instance for free

IN PREVIEW

Save on business continuity costs and license geographically redundant Disaster Recovery with Azure SQL Managed Instance.

  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features
9 Nov

Generally available: Increasing Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance up to 77%

NOW AVAILABLE

Faster Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance at no cost.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features
  • Open Source

October 2022

19 Oct

General availability: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Ignite
18 Oct

General availability: Azure savings plan for compute

NOW AVAILABLE

Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Azure savings plan for compute.

  • App Service
  • Azure Container Instances
  • Microsoft Cost Management
  • Azure Dedicated Host
  • Azure Functions
  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
12 Oct

General availability: Azure Stack HCI new features release

NOW AVAILABLE

Get the latest features release, version 22H2, for Azure Stack HCI.

  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
12 Oct

Public preview: New Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Spot Virtual Machines capabilities

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
12 Oct

General availability: AMD confidential VM guest attestation

NOW AVAILABLE

Guest attestation enables verifying the trustworthiness (good state) of the trusted execution environment on which the guest VM is executing.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
12 Oct

General availability: Confidential VM option for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Run your SQL Server workloads on the latest AMD-backed confidential virtual machines, ensuring protection of data in use.

  • SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
12 Oct

Preview: Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Security
  • SDK and Tools
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Open Source
12 Oct

In development: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3

IN DEVELOPMENT

Using the new Isolated v2 SKUs, you can now run larger and more complex workloads.

  • App Service
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
12 Oct

Generally available: Azure Hybrid Benefit for AKS and Azure Stack HCI

NOW AVAILABLE

We are expanding Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server Software Assurance (SA) customers to easily modernize with Azure, wherever they are.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Operating System
  • Microsoft Ignite
12 Oct

Public preview: Azure Elastic SAN

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Ignite

September 2022

14 Sep

Generally available: Reserved capacity for Azure Backup Storage

NOW AVAILABLE

Reserved capacity for Azure Backup Storage is now available.

  • Azure Backup
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Features

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