Azure updates

Generally Available: Azure VMware Solution Stretched Clusters with Customer-Managed Keys

Stretched clusters for Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is now Generally Available, providing 99.99% uptime for mission critical applications that require the highest availability.

• Azure VMware Solution
• Features

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in Japan East and Korea Central

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Japan East and Korea Central.

• Azure Disk Storage
• Storage Accounts
• Features
• Pricing & Offerings

Generally available: 8TB memory Mv2 Virtual Machine

Target availability: Q2 2023

Mv2 8TB Memory virtual machine is generally available now for your in-memory workloads.

• Features

Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads

Azure Backup Reports now includes support for more workloads: Azure Database for PostgreSQL Servers, Azure Blobs and Azure Disks.

• Management

Public preview: Azure Container Storage

Azure Container Storage is a new Azure service built natively for containers that enables customers to create and manage volumes for running production scale stateful container applications.

• Azure Disk Storage
• Services
• Features

General Availability : Azure Monitor for SAP solutions

This is a GA launch announcement blog for Azure Monitor for SAP solutions.

• Features

Private preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys

Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys

• Features

Generally Available: Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 NVMe-enabled VM sizes

The new NVMe-enabled VM sizes of the Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VM offer the highest remote storage IOPS and throughput performance of any Azure VMs to date. 

• Virtual Machines
• Pricing & Offerings

Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is available in Southeast Asia, Australia East and Qatar Central.

Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Southeast Asia, Australia East and Qatar Central.

• Azure Disk Storage
• Regions & Datacenters
• Features

Public Preview : Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Data Encryption with Customer Managed Keys

Data encryption with customer-managed keys (CMK) for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL allows you to bring your own key for data protection at rest.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features

Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup

Target availability: Q2 2023

Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.

• Azure Backup
• Management

Azure CycleCloud 8.4.0 release

Target availability: Q2 2023

We’re excited to announce the release of CycleCloud 8.4.0. Here is the list of the improvements and bug fixes: New Features • Slurm 3.0 is now supported o Support for dynamic nodes, and dynamic partitions via dynamic nodearrays, supporting both single and multiple VM sizes o New slurm versions 23.02 and 22.05.8 o Cost reporting via azslurm CLI o azslurm cli based autoscaler o Ubuntu 20 support o Removed need for topology plugin, and therefore also any submit plugin • Encryption-At-Host is now supported • Added Event Log for auditing storage credentials • Cluster usage schema now includes VM size details • New regions supported for pricing, including Poland, Sweden, and Jio India Resolved Issues • VMSS which were removed outside of CycleCloud could trigger a null-pointer exception. • Users were not able to interact with checkboxes in forms • node.json was not parsed using utf-8 encoding on Windows • Pricing for Ultra disks was not collected correctly • VMs using Ultra disks failed to be created if there was no price information • Restoring from backup sometimes picked an older version to restore from • Restoring from backup did not work if port 80/443 were in use • LSF example template was broken • In certain cases, nodes could be added to the cluster but not counted against the limits • Users were not able to change their password • CVE-2021-43980 is mitigated Here’s a link to the release notes in our public documentation: Release Notes v8.4.0 - Azure CycleCloud | Microsoft Learn UPGRADING CYCLECLOUD Please follow these links depending on the customer’s configuration:  Upgrading on Debian or Ubuntu  Upgrading on Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clones  Upgrading from the Microsoft Download center More info: Upgrade or Migrate - Azure CycleCloud | Microsoft Docs QUESTIONS? Please feel free to reach out at askcyclecloud@microsoft.com, or the AskCycleCloud Teams channel

• Open Source

Generally available: Large disk support for disaster recovery of Hyper-V VMs using Site Recovery

Target availability: Q2 2023

You can now enable disaster recovery for Hyper-VMs with data disks up to 32 TB in size.

• Azure Site Recovery
• Management

Public Preview: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup

Target availability: Q2 2023

Public preview for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.

• Azure Backup
• Management

Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in East US 2, North Europe and West US 2

Now available in East US 2, North Europe and West US 2region, Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price-performance.

• Azure Disk Storage
• Storage Accounts
• Regions & Datacenters

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

Unlock the full potential of the Azure ecosystem with a MongoDB compatible database that simply works. A new architecture designed to provide seamless integration and unbeatable performance.

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Features