Updates Archives
Monthly updates for June 2020
Ephemeral OS disks for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) now support additional VM sizes
You now have the ability to store ephemeral OS disks on the VM temp or resource disk in addition to the VM cache (in preview).
Create a formula in Azure DevTest Labs using a shared image gallery image
Your customers can now create a formula in DevTest Labs using a shared image gallery image. Formulas provide a dynamic way to create virtual machines from the desired configuration and settings. Changes in the environment can be captured on the fly via artifacts.
Updates for monitoring and troubleshooting Azure IoT Hub message routing
More detailed monitoring metrics and diagnostic logs, plus a new troubleshooting guide, are now available to accelerate monitoring and troubleshooting for Azure IoT Hub message routing.
Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series is now available in West Europe
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in East US, Canada Central, UK South, and West Europe.
Announcing extended term reservation for the Azure HBv2 Virtual Machine
High-performance computing (HPC) organizations typically calculate cost projections five-to-six years for the typical lifespan of an on-premises HPC cluster.
Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines is now in preview in US Gov Arizona
Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines is now available in preview in US Gov Arizona. It’s also available in an additional eighteen public regions around the world.
Azure Monitor for containers now supports log collection on AKS Windows node pools (in preview)
Starting with agent version ciprod05262020, Azure Monitor for containers will collect logs (std/stderr) for the containers running on AKS clusters with Windows node pools.
Azure Quota REST APIs to manage service limits (quota) are now available in preview
Target availability: Q4 2020
Use Azure REST Quota APIs to manage the service limits (quota) of Azure Virtual Machines (cores/vCPU) and Azure Machine Learning (in preview). Take advantage of this capability to query current usage and quotas for the supported resources and update these limits.
New Azure Virtual Machines for general purpose and memory intensive workloads now in preview
The new D v4-series and E v4-series Azure Virtual Machines feature the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL custom processor, which can achieve up to 3.4 Ghz all core turbo frequency. The D v4-series and E v4-series virtual machines (VMs) don’t provide any temporary storage. The D v4-series and Ds v4-series virtual machine sizes can meet the requirements associated with most general-purpose workloads. The E v4-series and Es v4-series VMs offer up to 504 GiB of RAM and are ideal for various memory-intensive enterprise applications.
Azure App Service regional virtual network integration for Linux apps is now available
The regional virtual network integration feature of Azure App Service, which enables access to resources in your virtual network across service endpoints or ExpressRoute connections, is now available in public regions
Azure Media Services now supports Live Transcription preview in additional regions
Live transcription is a new feature of Azure Media Services v3 APIs, wherein you can enhance the streams delivered to viewers with machine-generated text that is transcribed from spoken words in the audio feed. This feature was first announced in Nov 2019 and we are now making this available in additional regions.
Machine Learning on Azure SQL Managed Instance limited preview available
Machine Learning services with support for R and Python languages now include limited preview support on Azure SQL Managed Instance.
New Azure Virtual Machines with high-performance local SSD are now generally available
The new Dd v4-series and Ed v4-series Azure Virtual Machines feature the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL custom processor. The Dd v4-series and Dds v4 virtual machine (VM) sizes are well suited for applications that benefit from low-latency, high-speed local storage (up to 2,400 GiB.) The Edv4-series and Edsv4-series VM sizes are ideal for various memory-intensive enterprise applications and feature up to 504 GiB of RAM, in addition to high-performance local SSD storage (up to 2,400 GiB.)
Azure Dedicated Hosts now support additional Azure Virtual Machines
Deploy M-series, NV v3-series and NV v4-series Azure Virtual Machines on Azure Dedicated Hosts. This will expand the range of workloads you can run on Dedicated Hosts to include memory-intensive and graphics-intensive applications.
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