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Public preview: Bring your own key on Ephemeral OS disk for AKS
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now use your own keys to encrypt your ephemeral OS disks.
Public Preview : Crash Consistent VM Restore points
For Azure partners and customers seeking to develop business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, crash-consistent VM restore points serve as feature-rich building blocks, offering an agentless solution available natively on the Azure platform.
Azure Managed Lustre now generally available
Reduce infrastructure setup with a managed file system optimized for HPC and AI workloads.
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions.
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance.
June 2023
Preview Updates: Azure Elastic SAN Public Preview improvements
Introducing the latest update to Azure Elastic SAN (in preview), which now offers expanded range of regions, increased support for diverse workloads, and an array of new features.
Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in Southeast Asia, UK South, South Central US and West US 3
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance.
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.
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.
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.
May 2023
Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions.
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Brazil South, UK South, East US, East US 2, and South-Central US.
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.
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.
General Availability : Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
This is a GA launch announcement blog for Azure Monitor for SAP solutions.
Private preview: Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys
Azure Backup support for confidential VMs using Customer Managed Keys
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.
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.
April 2023
New Azure Virtual Desktop features to answer our customers’ top needs
New, recently released capabilities that improve storage, enhance configuration, deliver exceptional endpoint security and more.
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.
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 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 node arrays, 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 tick boxes 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 was 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 passwords • CVE-2021-43980 has been 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 centre More info: Upgrade or Migrate - Azure CycleCloud | Microsoft Docs QUESTIONS? Please feel free to get in touch at askcyclecloud@microsoft.com, or the AskCycleCloud Teams channel
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