Announcements

Stay informed with the latest breakthroughs and innovations in cloud technology, directly from the experts at Microsoft Azure. Our announcements section is your go-to source for new features and pathways to empower your digital transformation.

Announcements April 18, 2022 2 min read

Enhance your data visualizations with Azure Managed Grafana—now in preview

Last year, we announced our strategic partnership with Grafana Labs to develop a Microsoft Azure managed service that lets customers run Grafana natively within the Azure cloud platform.
Announcements April 12, 2022 5 min read

Feathr: LinkedIn’s feature store is now available on Azure

With the advance of AI and machine learning, companies start to use complex machine learning pipelines in various applications, such as recommendation systems, fraud detection, and more.
Announcements April 11, 2022 2 min read

Accelerate your AI applications with Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines

Real-world AI has revolutionized and changed how people live during the past decade, including media and entertainment, healthcare and life science, retail, automotive, finance service, manufacturing, and oil and gas.
Announcements April 6, 2022 2 min read

Azure delivers strong MLPerf inferencing v2.0 results from 1 to 8 GPUs

Microsoft Azure is committed to providing its customers with industry-leading real-world AI capabilities.
Announcements April 5, 2022 4 min read

Increase remote storage performance with Azure Ebsv5 VMs—now generally available

At Microsoft Ignite in November 2021, we announced the memory-optimized Ev5 Azure Virtual Machine (VM) series based on the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8370C processor.
Announcements April 4, 2022 6 min read

Now in preview: Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors

The demand for compute capacity to sustain business modernization and digital transformation initiatives continues to grow.
Announcements March 31, 2022 2 min read

Bring your own IP addresses (BYOIP) to Azure with Custom IP Prefix

When planning a potential migration of on-premises infrastructure to Azure, you may want to retain your existing public IP addresses due to your customers’ dependencies (for example, firewalls or other IP hardcoding) or to preserve an established IP reputation.
Announcements March 30, 2022 4 min read

Diversifying the telecommunications supply chain with Open RAN

Over the past few years, there has been an increasingly steady drumbeat for the need to diversify and open the telecommunications supply chain.
Announcements March 29, 2022 5 min read

Introducing the new Azure Front Door: Reimagined for modern apps and content

Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new Azure Front Door, our native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content acceleration with built-in turnkey security, and a simple and predictable pricing model.
Announcements March 23, 2022 3 min read

Manage port forwarding for backend pool with Azure Load Balancer

Starting today, Azure Load Balancer enables customers to manage port forwarding for Virtual Machine Scale Sets or a group of virtual machines in a backend pool with a single set-up with minimum management overhead.
Announcements March 22, 2022 2 min read

Accelerate graphics-heavy workloads using NVads A10 v5 Azure

Continuing with our promise to offer innovative solutions for our customers, we are very excited to announce that our latest NVads A10 v5 series is now available for preview.
Announcements March 21, 2022 3 min read

Azure HBv3 VMs for HPC now generally available with AMD EPYC CPUs with AMD 3D V-Cache

Azure HBv3 virtual machines (VMs) are now upgraded to and generally available with AMD EPYC 3rd Gen processors with 3D V-Cache, formerly codenamed “Milan-X”, in the Azure East US, South Central, and West Europe regions.

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