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Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Cloud Services (classic) retiring in August 2024.
January 2024
Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate your cloud services to a new deployment model before 31 August 2024.
October 2022
Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate your cloud services to a new deployment model before 31 August 2024.
April 2022
Generally available: DNS reservations to prevent subdomain takeover in Cloud Services deployments
Target availability: Q2 2022
As a preventive measure, DNS record is reserved for seven days to allow clean-up of dangling DNS domains or reclaim from same Azure Active Directory tenant only.
March 2022
Public preview: Azure Chaos Studio Key Vault and Classic Cloud Services faults
Azure Chaos Studio has new faults available for denying access to a Key Vault and shutting down a Classic Cloud Service.
August 2021
Cloud Services (classic) deployment model is retiring on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate your cloud services to a new deployment model before 31 August 2024.
July 2021
General availability: Transition to Cloud Services (extended support) with new migration tool
Accelerate your transition to Cloud Services (extended support) in Azure Resource Manager (ARM) using the new tool that provides a seamless and fully orchestrated migration of your Cloud Services (classic) deployments.
April 2021
Public preview: Announcing platform support migration of Azure Cloud Services (classic) to Azure Resource Manager
Seamless, fully orchestrated, no downtime for most scenarios and minimal effort migration path for your existing Cloud Services (classic) deployments.
June 2020
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.
May 2020
Azure Monitor for VMs is now in preview in US Gov Virginia
Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines is now available in US Gov Virginia. It’s also available in an additional eighteen public regions around the world.
December 2019
Azure Monitor for VMs now stores data in dedicated data types
Azure Monitor for virtual machines (VMs) now stores computer-related and process-related data in dedicated data types, making it simpler to query against as well as offering quicker data ingestion.
Azure Service Map now stores data in dedicated data types
Service Map now stores computer-related and process-related data in dedicated data types, making it simpler to query against as well as offering quicker data ingestion.
October 2019
Azure Monitor’s Service Map is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia and Central India
The Service Map feature of Azure Monitor is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia and Central India, so it’s now available in 18 public regions around the world.
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia and Central India regions
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia and Central India. It’s available around the world in eighteen public regions.
Updates to Azure Monitor for virtual machines (preview) before general availability release
Updates to Azure Monitor for virtual machines (preview) will be launched in mid-November, 2019, ahead of the general availability (GA) release.
Upcoming changes for Service Map data stored in Log Analytics
Updates for Service Map are coming that will change where we store some of our data in Log Analytics. These updates should be completed sometime in November 2019.
April 2019
Azure Traffic Manager will stop automatically enabling, disabling or deleting endpoints for Azure Cloud Services on 1 May 2019
Target retirement date: May 01, 2019
Currently, Azure Traffic Manager can automatically enable, disable or delete endpoints when starting, stopping or deleting the corresponding cloud service. However, this option will be retired on 1 May 2019, and you'll need to manually enable, disable or delete profile endpoints in Traffic Manager when starting, stopping or deleting a cloud service. You'll continue to be billed for the endpoints unless they are manually disabled or deleted.
March 2018
Name changes: Virtual Machines B-series US Gov
Virtual Machines B-series naming will change on May 1, 2018, in all Azure Government regions.
November 2017
Retiring Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services from the classic portal
Starting November 15, 2017, Virtual Machines and Cloud Services will be available only in the Azure portal.
August 2017
Azure Cloud Shell: Generate scripts by using mssql-scripter
Use mssql-scripter, an open-source command-line interface, to generate database scripts in Azure Cloud Shell.
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