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Monthly updates for Virtual Machines: 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.
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.
General availability: Azure HBv3 virtual machines for HPC now upgraded
Target availability: Q1 2022
Azure HBv3 virtual machines are now upgraded to and generally available with AMD EPYC 3rd Gen processors with 3D V-Cache, codenamed “Milan-X”, in the Azure East US, South Central US, and West Europe regions.
Public preview: Trusted launch support for Virtual Machines using Ephemeral OS disks
Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure.
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