Updates Archives
Monthly updates for August 2021
Public preview: Simplified disaster recovery for VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery
A new and more reliable way to protect VMware machines using simplified ASR replication appliance
Machine Learning Studio (classic) will retire on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Machine Learning Studio (classic) will be retired by 31 August 2024 – transition to Azure Machine Learning.
Public preview: Apply settings inside machines using Azure Policy's guest configuration
Azure Policy can audit or configure settings inside a machine, both for machines running in Azure and Arc-enabled hybrid machines.
Windows 11 public preview is now available on Azure Virtual Desktop
You can now run Windows 11 preview images on Azure Virtual Desktop.
H-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired by 31 August 2022
Target retirement date: August 31, 2022
Migrate to HPC, GP, or RAM optimized VMs by 31 August 2022
HB-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired by 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2024.
Placement polices now in public preview for Azure VMware Solution
Placement policies enable admins to specify constraints or rules when allocating Virtual Machines within an Azure VMware Solution private cloud. With this update the creation and assignment of vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) rules for running Virtual Machines in an Azure VMware Solution SDDC has been simplified and is now executable directly from the Azure Portal for cloud admin roles.
Public preview: Address changes on an Azure virtual network that has active peerings
You can now update your virtual network address space without needing to remove the peering links on their virtual networking and incurring any downtime.
Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements - August 2021
New features Cross Location Compute, Hierarchical Time Series, and Compute Instance auto-shutdown and auto-start capabilities are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning.
Automatic Azure VM extension upgrade capabilities now generally available
Automatic extension upgrade provides safe and automatic upgrades for extensions on Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets, keeping your environments more secure and up to date.
General availability: Introducing global disaster recovery via Azure Site Recovery
Replicate your virtual machines to any Azure region on the planet to safeguard your applications from disaster.
Azure Defender for SQL now in general availability on the Azure SQL Virtual Machine blade
Configure Azure Defender to view and manage your security concerns for SQL Server on Azure virtual machines.
Public preview of Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now offers reserved instance pricing
Prepay and commit to one- or three-year’ worth of steady hourly service consumption on Flexible Server for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database.
Public preview of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server now offers reserved instance pricing
Prepay and commit to Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server for one- or three-years’ worth of steady hourly service consumption at a lower per-hour price point.
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