Compute

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Spot Virtual Machines (VMs). Azure Spot VMs provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts.

With the general availability of three new features for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets, you now have more control over gracefully handling your virtual machine instances during scale-in.

Today, I’m excited to announce the preview of the next generation of Azure VMware Solution, designed, built, and supported by Microsoft in close partnership with VMware.

Today marks the preview of Cross Region Restore (CRR) for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) support using Azure Backup.

Announcing the general availability of Windows Server container support on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

With the general availability of DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs), we are ushering in the beginning of a new level of data protection in Azure.

We recently collaborated with Riskfuel, a startup developing fast derivatives models based on AI, to measure the performance gained by running a Riskfuel-accelerated model on the Azure ND40rs_v2 Virtual Machine instance powered by NVIDIA GPUs against traditional CPU-driven methods.

We’re announcing the general availability of incremental snapshots of Azure Managed Disks, which gives customers a cost-effective point-in-time backup for Managed Disks.

Late last year, we’ve announced the general availability of Azure Dedicated Hosts.

Today we are very excited to share the general availability of NVv4 virtual machines in South Central US, East US and West Europe regions, with additional regions planned in the coming months.

We’re excited to share that Forrester has named Microsoft as a Leader in the inaugural report, The Forrester New Wave™: Function-As-A-Service Platforms, Q1 2020 based on their evaluation of Azure Functions.

Skytap on Azure allows businesses to innovate with the cloud faster, while minimizing impact to traditional applications running on IBM Power.