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Monthly updates for Virtual Machines: March 2021
Enabling IBM WebSphere on Azure Kubernetes Service
Customers can now leverage guidance jointly developed with IBM to run WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Backup for Azure Managed Disk is now generally available
Azure Disk Backup offers snapshot lifecycle management to Azure Managed Disk by automating periodic creation of snapshot and retain it for configured duration using Backup policy.
General availability: Publishing VM Images from Shared Image Gallery to Azure Marketplace
ISVs can capture their images directly into Shared Image Gallery and select those images for publishing with an inline experience in Partner Center in just two steps.
HBv3-Series VMs now generally available in East US, South Central US, and West Europe
HBv3-series VMs for HPC now available in the East US, South Central US, and West Europe regions
Azure trusted launch for Virtual Machines now in public preview
Azure offers trusted launch as a seamless way to bolster the security of Generation 2 VMs. Designed to protect against boot kits, rootkits, and kernel-level malware, trusted launch is comprised of secure boot, virtual trusted platform module (vTPM), and boot integrity monitoring.
Automatic VM guest patching is now in public preview for Linux VMs
Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance.
New orchestration mode for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets now in public preview
Increase the availability at scale of business-critical applications with new Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets features. Simplify workload deployment, management, and scalability with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode, now in public preview.
Improve Azure Spot Virtual Machines runtime and simulate evictions with new features in public preview
New Azure Spot Virtual Machines capabilities – ‘try & restore’ and REST APIs to simulate VM evictions - are now in public preview.
On-demand capacity reservations in public preview
Reserve compute capacity and obtain a capacity SLA for Azure virtual machine deployments with on-demand capacity reservations.
Confidential computing nodes (DCSv2) on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is generally available
Confidential computing capability now available on AKS for your container workloads.
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