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Monthly updates for May 2014
Preview: Azure Files
Mount a shared file system and access it from various virtual machines in an Azure datacenter.
General Availability: Compute-intensive A8 and A9 instances for virtual machines
Faster processors, faster interconnectivity, more virtual cores for higher computing power, and larger amounts of memory.
General Availability: ExpressRoute
ExpressRoute offers a 99.9% SLA on ExpressRoute connection uptime and two new bandwidth tiers for the Exchange Provider scenario: 200 Mbps and 500 Mbps.
Preview: Redis Cache Service
A distributed, in-memory, managed cache based on the open-source Redis Cache.
April 2014 Cloud Services Guest OS Release completed
The April 2014 Guest OS release (versions 4.7, 3.14, 2.26, and 1.34), which incorporates all the latest MSRC updates, started release on May 2 and completed today May 6.
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