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Generally Available: Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor Container Insights
The Syslog collection feature in Azure Monitor - Container Insights is generally available.
Generally Available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 now supported on Azure Virtual Machines
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3, the latest version of RHEL 9 from Red Hat is now generally available on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Availability of RHEL 9.3 for VMs on Azure is a step forward towards offering a more scalable, flexible Linux platform that pairs container innovation with a strong security posture.
Public preview: Private subnet
Private subnet is a new feature that allows you to create subnets that prevent the creation of insecure default outbound public IP address creation
Public Preview: Attach and VMs to and from Existing Virtual Machine Scale Sets
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.
Generally Available: Azure Mv3 Medium Memory (MM) Virtual Machines
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.
Generally available: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Databricks
Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.
Public preview: Confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs
Confidential temp disk encryption is now available for all confidential VMs.
Generally Available: Trusted launch as default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI
Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs.
Generally Available: AMD confidential VMs in new regions for November 2023
AMD confidential VMs now in Italy North, Germany West Central, UAE North.
Announcing the public preview of Azure confidential VMs with Intel TDX
Microsoft is excited to announce the public preview of DCesv5 and ECesv5-series confidential VMs. These VMs are powered by 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX). They enable organizations to bring confidential workloads to the cloud without code changes to applications and will be available starting December 1st.
Public preview: ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway
The ExpressRoute virtual network gateway facilitates both management and control plane connectivity to Virtual Machines and Private Endpoints over ExpressRoute.
Public preview: VM Hibernation
VMs can now be put into a hibernate state in which you don't pay for any VM usage, while the VM state can be saved and be restored at a later time.
Public preview: Azure VMSS Zonal Expansion
Zonal expansion for VMs and VM Scale Sets empowers users to smoothly transition their regionally configured VMs or VM scale sets into a zonal configuration across Azure availability zones, resulting an increased availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) from 99.95% to 99.99%.
Experiment templates now available in Azure Chaos Studio
Create and customize an experiment from a template. Chaos Studio currently supports AAD Outage and Availability Zone Down scenarios.
General Availability: Ubuntu Server to Ubuntu Pro in-place upgrade now available
Upgrade from Ubuntu Server (16.04 or higher) to Ubuntu Pro on your existing Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) without redeployment or downtime.
General availability: Introducing NGads V620 Series VMs optimized for gaming scenarios
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.
Latency metrics for disks and performance metrics for temporary disks on Azure Virtual Machines
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.
Game Dev VM Marketplace Application will be retired on February 1st, 2024
Target retirement date: February 01, 2024
Announcement of Azure Game Dev VM retirement
Public Preview: Azure integration with Canonical’s Snapshot Service for safe deployment
Azure Guest Patching Service and Azure Kubernetes Service will now apply the same package update from a specific date to all regions following safe deployment principles.
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
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