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Monthly updates for Virtual Machines: 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.
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