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November 2023

15 Nov

Public Preview: Attach and VMs to and from Existing Virtual Machine Scale Sets

IN PREVIEW

You can now easily bring existing VMs to an existing Virtual Machine Scale Set with Flexible Orchestration Mode to take advantage of the scaling orchestrations offered by scale sets. You can now detach a VM from the scale set for isolation and troubleshooting.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Virtual Machines
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2023

17 Oct

Public Preview: VMSS Automatic Instance Repairs - Reimage, Restart Repair Actions

IN PREVIEW

New recovery options available on automatic instance repairs provides the capability for less-disruptive repair actions on sensitive workloads.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Features
11 Oct

Breaking Change Notice: Virtual Machine Scale Set Default Orchestration Mode changing from Uniform to Flexible on PowerShell, Azure CLI

Starting November 2023, Virtual Machine Scale Sets created on PowerShell and Azure CLI will automatically default to Flexible orchestration mode.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Features

August 2023

31 Aug

Generally Available: Azure Monitor VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent

NOW AVAILABLE

VM Insights using Azure Monitor Agent provides various benefits like cost savings, simplified management experience and enhanced security & performance.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Windows Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Services
  • Features

April 2023

12 Apr

General Availability: Azure App Health Extension - Rich Health States

NOW AVAILABLE

Application Health Extension, Rich Health States allows for more detailed health reporting on your VM applications.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Features

March 2023

9 Mar

GA: Spot Priority Mix

NOW AVAILABLE

Deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set with both Spot and standard virtual machines using flexible orchestration mode.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Pricing & Offerings

January 2023

19 Jan

Public Preview: Azure App Health Extension - Rich Health States

IN PREVIEW

Application Health Extension, Rich Health States allows for more detailed health reporting on your VM applications.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Features

October 2022

21 Oct

The Continuous delivery setting for Azure VMSS will be retired on 31 March 2023 – Use Azure DevOps to create pipelines

Target retirement date: March 31, 2023

Start using Azure Pipelines by 31 March 2023, instead of Azure Portal to create Continuous delivery pipelines for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Retirements
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
10 Oct

General availability: New Azure proximity placement groups feature

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now use the new optional parameter “intent” to specify the VM sizes and zone intended for the proximity placement group.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Features

August 2022

30 Aug

Public preview: Ephemeral OS disks supports host-based encryption using customer managed key

IN PREVIEW

Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for host-based encryption.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

June 2022

7 Jun

General availability: Trusted launch support for virtual machines using Ephemeral OS disks

NOW AVAILABLE

Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

May 2022

11 May

Generally available: Azure Compute Gallery support for trusted launch Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Compute Gallery now allows you to create and share custom images for Trusted launch virtual machines

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Management
  • Features

April 2022

4 Apr

Public preview: Arm64-based Azure VMs can deliver up to 50% better price-performance

IN PREVIEW

New general-purpose and memory-optimized Azure Virtual Machines, which feature Ampere Altra Arm-based processors, deliver even better price-performance than comparable x86-based Azure Linux Virtual Machines.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings

March 2022

15 Mar

Public preview: Trusted launch support for Virtual Machines using Ephemeral OS disks

IN PREVIEW

Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

November 2021

16 Nov

Public preview: Run Command – Execute PowerShell or shell scripts on Virtual Machines and Scale Sets

IN PREVIEW

The updated Run Commands are now management orientated, allows to run multiple scripts, track their progress and define Run Command resources in ARM templates to automate VM deployments.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: VM Applications – Manage and deploy applications to Virtual Machines and Scale Sets

IN PREVIEW

With VM Applications, you can create and securely store application packages in an Azure Compute Gallery. Package management is greatly simplified with logical grouping and versioning capabilities and packages can be shared with other users in your organization, across subscriptions, and tenants.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features

October 2021

28 Oct

General availability: Ephemeral OS disks for Azure VMs support additional VM sizes

NOW AVAILABLE

You now can choose where to store Ephemeral OS disks, either in VM temp disk or on VM cache. This enables Ephemeral OS disks to be created on more VM sizes that have sufficient temp disks.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

September 2021

7 Sep

Public preview: Automatic scaling with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode

IN PREVIEW

This release provides improved quality and simplified Azure customer experience, giving you the opportunity to combine the functionality of Availability Sets and Virtual Machine Scale Sets.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Features

June 2021

17 Jun

General availability: Maintenance control for Virtual Machine Scale Sets OS image upgrades

NOW AVAILABLE

Take control of OS image upgrades on your virtual machine scale sets by using the new maintenance control feature. Now you can update at the time chosen by you with all the safety checks in place.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Management
  • Features

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