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Azure Spot Virtual Machines are now generally available
Buy unused compute capacity at deep discounts and run interruptible workloads at scale with Azure Spot Virtual Machines.
March 2020
Automatic instance repairs for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now in preview
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now provide the capability to automatically repair unhealthy instances based on application health status.
Virtual machine scale sets now simpler to manage
Manage virtual machine scale sets more effectively by specifying the order in which virtual machines (VMs) are deleted, or by protecting one or more VMs in a scale set from specific actions or by receiving notifications regarding VM deletions.
January 2020
Azure Bastion now generally available in East US 2 and West US 2
Azure Bastion is now generally available in two more Azure public cloud regions – East US 2 and West US 2. We’ll continue to add more regions going forwards.
December 2019
Serial console for Azure Virual Machines now available in US Government Cloud
Serial console is now available in preview in the Azure US Government Cloud, allowing customers in the government-only clouds to access the serial console of their VMs or virtual machine scale set instances.
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.
Azure Spot VMs now in preview
Buy unused compute capacity at deep discounts and run interruptible workloads at scale with Azure Spot VMs now in Preview.
November 2019
Azure generation 2 virtual machines (VMs) are now generally available
Generation 2 VMs are now generally available in Azure. New available features include Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX), support for large VMs (up to 12 TB) and the ability to provision OS Disk sizes that exceed 2 TB.
New Azure Dav4-series and Eav4-series virtual machines are now available.
New Azure Dav4-series and Eav4-series virtual machines (VMs) based on AMD EPYC™ are now available. They are ideal for general purpose and memory-intensive workloads.
New virtual machine scale sets capabilities are now in preview
New virtual machine scale sets features simplify the management of virtual machines while improving their runtime and performance capabilities.
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.
September 2019
Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Machines is now available in additional regions
Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Machines is now available in Japan East, North Europe and East US2.
Service Map feature of Azure Monitor is now available in additional regions
The Service Map feature of Azure Monitor is now available in Japan East, North Europe and East US2.
August 2019
New AMD-based Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads in preview
New AMD-based Azure Dav3 and Eav3-series virtual machines – ideal for general purpose and memory intensive workloads – are now in Preview.
July 2019
New 48vCPUs Azure Virtual Machine sizes are now available
New 48vCPUs sizes for the Dv3, Dsv3, Ev3, Esv3, Fsv2 and Lsv2 Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) are now available so you can better match your workload requirements.
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in East and South East Australia regions
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in East Australia and South East Australia. Around the world, it is available in nine public regions.
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