Updates Archives
Monthly updates for Virtual Machines: May 2019
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2
Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in West US 2. Around the world, it's available in seven public regions.
Azure Monitor for VMs has a new data set for bound ports
The VMBoundPort data set is now available for Azure Monitor for VMs customers in all supported Log Analytics workspace regions, including East US and West Europe.
Azure Mv2 Virtual Machines offering up to 6 TB memory are now generally available
Azure Mv2-series virtual machines offering up to 208 vCPU in 3TB and 6 TB memory configurations are now available in US East and US East 2 regions. Mv2 VMs are certified by SAP for SAP HANA OLTP and OLAP production workloads.
Azure App Configuration is now available in preview
Azure App Configuration provides a service to centrally manage application settings and helps secure their accesses. In addition, it helps developers to ship code faster by being able to easily “flight” their features in production using feature flags.
GPU and HPC VM Price Promotion now available
Announcing newly discounted promotional pricing for the NCv1, NVv1, and Hv1-series VM families.
Generation 2 virtual machines in Azure – Public Preview
Generation 2 (UEFI Boot) Virtual Machines available in Azure for public preview
Azure Virtual Machines NVv2 meter name change
Effective July 1, 2019, the meter names for Azure Virtual Machines NVv2 will change.
High-Performance Computing Virtual Machines are now available in South Central US, Western Europe
HB-Series VMs are now available in South Central US, Western Europe
Azure Virtual Machine PowerOff now available with fast shutdown
You can now quickly and forcefully power off (stop) your Azure VM with the new skipShutdown flag.
Corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services
We’ve corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services that impacted EA customers only.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BYOS images now available
Red Hat Enterprise Linux images are now available as both BYOS and PAYG offers.
Azure Shared Image Gallery is now generally available
Azure Shared Image Gallery makes it easier to manage, share and distribute custom virtual machine (VM) images in Azure. Shared Image Gallery is now generally available in all public cloud regions.
Announcing Ephemeral OS Disk in Public Preview
We are happy to announce Ephemeral OS disk in Public Preview. Ephemeral OS disks work well for stateless workloads, where applications are tolerant of individual VM failures and are more concerned about the time it takes to deploy at scale or to reimage the individual VMs.
Azure VMware Solutions is now generally available
Run your VMware workloads natively on Azure with Azure VMware Solutions. This new category of Azure services, now available to the public, allows you to deploy your VMware-based applications on a dedicated and bare metal infrastructure in Azure.
Azure Quickstart Center enables new customers to build cloud projects with confidence
The Azure Quickstart Center within the Azure portal enables new customers to use the self-guided approach to build cloud projects and accelerate deployment with ease.
Azure Serial Console updated with VMSS support and improved language support
You may now use the Serial Console feature to troubleshoot connectivity issues in both VMs and individual VMSS instances in a variety of languages.
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