Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2022
Update: NV-series and NV_Promo Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Move to GPU accelerated virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
Update: ND-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
Update: NC v2-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
NC v2-series Azure Virtual Machines retirement extended to 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
NC-series Azure Virtual Machines retirement extended to 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
Update: NC-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
Generally available: Access time-based lifecycle management rules for Data Lake Storage Gen2
Access time tracking for objects and lifecycle management policies based on last accessed time in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Generally available: The new Azure Front Door – a modern cloud CDN service
Azure Front Door is a modern cloud CDN that enables you to accelerate the delivery of applications, APIs, and content on Azure or anywhere at scale.
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment version 3 by 31 August 2024.
IoT connector preview feature in Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2022
Target retirement date: September 30, 2022
Migrate to MedTech service feature which provides stronger security and supportability.
Generally available: Copy data directly to Archive Storage with Data Box
You can now use Data Box to copy data directly to Archive tier by indicating this when ordering and then copying to the corresponding share on the Data Box.
In development: New planned datacenter region in India (India South Central)
Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region to India, including availability zones.
Generally available: On-demand capacity reservation with Azure Site Recovery safeguards VMs failover
Integrating Site Recovery with capacity reservation to reserve compute capacity in the disaster recovery region and use that for failover.
General availability: Azure Bastion native client support
Azure Bastion native client support brings you the ability to connect to target VMs from the command line and log in using your Azure Active Directory credentials.
General availability: On-demand capacity reservations
On-demand capacity reservations let you reserve compute capacity for one or more VM size(s) in an Azure region or availability zone for any length of time.
Generally available: Azure Batch supports Spot Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q1 2022
Azure Batch supports Spot Virtual Machine's in user-subscription mode and is offered at a significantly reduced price compared with dedicated virtual machines.
Public preview: Azure Percept DK March (2203) software update
The Azure Percept March update includes fixes related to security.
Operator Assistance in Azure MFA will be retired on 30 September 2023
Target retirement date: September 30, 2023
Turn off Operator Assistance and enable automated attendant features for phone system.
Classic data export in Azure IoT Central will be retired by 31 March 2023
Target retirement date: March 31, 2023
Migrate to new data exports in Azure IoT Central before 31 March 2023.
Public preview: User-assigned managed identities in Stream Analytics
You can now use user-assigned managed identity to authenticate your Stream Analytics jobs to inputs and outputs without ever having to worry about credential management.
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