Azure roadmap
As Azure continues to grow, we want to keep you informed—so that we can plan for the future together. This product roadmap is the place to find out what’s new and what’s coming next. Let us know what you think by providing feedback and voting on items. You can also subscribe to notifications, so you’ll always be the in the know.
Automation and configuration for virtual machines
Date updated: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Azure Automation will include three new enterprise-grade capabilities for managing virtual machines—update management, inventory, and change tracking.
Azure Batch service—low priority Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)
Date updated: Monday, October 2, 2017
Low-priority VMs are now available at a large discount compared to regular on-demand VMs.
Azure Virtual Machines B-Series
Date updated: Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The B-Series of virtual machines offer a cost-effective way to deploy workloads that burst in their performance, but don't require continuous full performance of the CPU.
Announcing Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RIs)
Date updated: Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RIs) will allow you to reserve virtual machines at extremely low prices on Azure.
Just in time Virtual Machine access
Date updated: Thursday, September 14, 2017
Just in time VM access can be used to lock down inbound traffic to your Azure virtual machines, reducing exposure to attacks while still providing easy access to connect to virtual machines when needed.
L-Series storage-optimized virtual machines
Date updated: Wednesday, May 31, 2017
L-Series virtual machines will be optimized for storage-intensive workloads and offer four new virtual machine sizes. These range from 4-cores, 32-GiB of memory, and 678-GB of fast local SSD, scaling up to 32-cores with 256-GiB of memory and more than 5.6-TB of local SSD.
Azure Virtual Machines - New Dv3 and Ev3 VM sizes
Date updated: Friday, July 21, 2017
We're excited to announce the general availability of our new Dv3 virtual machine sizes. We're also changing the naming for the high memory D sizes (D11-D14) to become the Ev3 family.
Azure Virtual Machines—Managed Disks
Date updated: Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Managed Disks will provide persistent, secured disk storage for Azure Virtual Machines. It'll ensure that the disks of different virtual machines in an availability set are created on physically separate stamps of storage.
ND and NCv2 virtual machines
Date updated: Wednesday, May 24, 2017
The ND-series, powered by NVIDIA Tesla P40 GPUs based on the new Pascal Architecture, is excellent for training and inference. These instances will provide over twice the performance over the previous generation for FP32 (single precision floating point operations), for AI workloads utilizing CNTK, TensorFlow, Caffe, and other frameworks.
Azure Virtual Machines—announcing large disk sizes up to 4-TB
Date updated: Monday, July 3, 2017
We're excited to announce an increase in the maximum disk sizes for both Premium and Standard storage. This will extend the maximum size of the disks from 1,024-GB to 4,095-GB, and enable customers to add four times more disk storage capacity per virtual machine.