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January 2024

18 Jan

Private Preview: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1 VMs to Gen2-Trusted launch

IN DEVELOPMENT

Target availability: Q1 2024

Support to upgrade existing Gen1 VMs to Trusted launch in preview.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features
10 Jan

General Availability: Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks support with Trusted launch

NOW AVAILABLE

Trusted launch VMs now support Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks storage.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features

December 2023

18 Dec

Generally available: Crash Consistent VM Restore points

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features
13 Dec

Public preview: Intel TDX based confidential VMs now available in the Azure portal, Azure CLI and ARM templates

IN PREVIEW

The DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential virtual machines (VMs) are now available in the Azure portal and via the CLI and ARM templates. These VMs enable organizations to bring confidential workloads to the cloud without code changes to applications.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Security

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
15 Nov

Generally available: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Databricks

NOW AVAILABLE

Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.

  • Azure Databricks
  • Virtual Machines
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public preview: Confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs

IN PREVIEW

Confidential temp disk encryption is now available for all confidential VMs.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Preview: Disk Integrity Tool for confidential VMs in Azure

IN PREVIEW

The disk integrity tool for confidential VMs is now in preview. This enables you to measure and attest that your OS disk is launched as expected.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Security
  • SDK and Tools
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Generally Available: Trusted launch as default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI

NOW AVAILABLE

Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Security
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Public Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3 support for AMD-based confidential VMs

IN PREVIEW

RHEL 9.3 is now available in public preview as the guest OS for all AMD-based confidential VMs.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Security
  • Operating System
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
15 Nov

Generally Available: AMD confidential VMs in new regions for November 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

AMD confidential VMs now in Italy North, Germany West Central, UAE North.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Microsoft Ignite
8 Nov

General availability: Introducing NGads V620 Series VMs optimized for gaming scenarios

NOW AVAILABLE

The NGads V620 Series are now in public preview in the East US2, Europe West and West US3 regions. This new series enables service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
6 Nov

Latency metrics for disks and performance metrics for temporary disks on Azure Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

New latency metrics on OS, data and temporary disks are now available in preview, allowing you to see how long it takes to complete input/output (IO) requests to Azure Disks . In addition, new performance metrics for temporary disks are generally available now and allow users to see the IOPS, throughput and queue depth for virtual machines with temporary disks.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Virtual Machines
  • Features

October 2023

4 Oct

General Availability: Upgrade your existing Azure Gen2 VMs to Trusted Launch

NOW AVAILABLE

Enable Trusted Launch foundational compute security on existing Azure Generation 2 VMs.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features

September 2023

14 Sep

General availability: Selective Disk Backup and Restore in Enhanced Policy for Azure VM Backup

NOW AVAILABLE

We are adding the “Selective Disk Backup and Restore” capability in Enhanced Policy of Azure VM Backup.

  • Azure Backup
  • Virtual Machines
  • Features

August 2023

30 Aug

Generally Available: Trusted launch as default for VMs deployed through the Azure portal

NOW AVAILABLE

Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMS deployed through the Azure portal, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Security
  • Features
15 Aug

Public preview: Azure Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines

IN PREVIEW

Get improved performance and higher reliability for your memory-optimized workloads with the public preview of the new generation Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Features

July 2023

18 Jul

Public Preview : Crash Consistent VM Restore points

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Linux Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

June 2023

13 Jun

General availability: Azure HX Virtual Machines for HPC

NOW AVAILABLE

HX-series VMs for HPC are now generally available in the Azure East US region.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build
13 Jun

General availability: Azure HBv4 Virtual Machines for HPC

NOW AVAILABLE

HBv4-series VMs for HPC are now generally available in the Azure East US region.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Microsoft Build

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