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Monthly updates for Virtual Machines: November 2023
Public Preview: Attach and VMs to and from Existing Virtual Machine Scale Sets
You can now easily bring existing VMs to an existing Virtual Machine Scale Set with Flexible Orchestration Mode to take advantage of the scaling orchestrations offered by scale sets. You can now detach a VM from the scale set for isolation and troubleshooting.
Generally available: AMD confidential VM option for Azure Databricks
Users can now select AMD-based confidential VMs for their Azure Databricks cluster driver node and cluster worker nodes.
Public preview: Confidential temp disk encryption for confidential VMs
Confidential temp disk encryption is now available for all confidential VMs.
Preview: Disk Integrity Tool for confidential VMs in Azure
The disk integrity tool for confidential VMs is now in preview. This enables you to measure and attest that your OS disk is launched as expected.
Generally Available: Trusted launch as default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI
Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMs deployed through PowerShell and CLI, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs.
Public Preview: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.3 support for AMD-based confidential VMs
RHEL 9.3 is now available in public preview as the guest OS for all AMD-based confidential VMs.
Generally Available: AMD confidential VMs in new regions for November 2023
AMD confidential VMs now in Italy North, Germany West Central, UAE North.
General availability: Introducing NGads V620 Series VMs optimized for gaming scenarios
The NGads V620 Series are now in public preview in the East US2, Europe West and West US3 regions. This new series enables service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences.
Latency metrics for disks and performance metrics for temporary disks on Azure Virtual Machines
New latency metrics on OS, data and temporary disks are now available in preview, allowing you to see how long it takes to complete input/output (IO) requests to Azure Disks . In addition, new performance metrics for temporary disks are generally available now and allow users to see the IOPS, throughput and queue depth for virtual machines with temporary disks.
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