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Monthly updates for May 2024
Public Preview - Azure Compute Fleet
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Compute Fleet is a game changer in scaling and optimizing Azure compute resources across different virtual machine (VM) types, availability zones, and pricing models to achieve desired scale, performance, and cost.
Public Preview: Azure Functions brings new flexibility with Azure Functions Flex Consumption
Flex consumption is a new Azure Functions hosting plan that provides fast scaling and networking features with a serverless billing model.
Public preview: AKS Automatic
AKS Automatic clusters are optimized to run most production workloads and provision compute resources based on Kubernetes manifests. The streamlined configuration follows AKS best practices and recommendations for cluster and workload setup, scalability, and security.
Preview: Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based Virtual Machines
Target availability: Q2 2024
Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based VMs are now available in preview. Please use the sign-up form at https://aka.ms/Cobalt100-VM-Preview-Signup to request access.
Upcoming changes to Databricks materialized views and streaming tables in Databricks SQL
Azure Databricks materialized views and streaming tables Billing change
General availability: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration
ExpressRoute customers can now deploy a second gateway to the Gateway Subnet. This will enable a seamless migration to an Az-enabled Gateway SKU and upgrade your Public IP configurations.
The availability of Azure compute reservations will continue until further notice
Initially planned to end on January 1, 2024, the availability of Azure compute reservation exchanges for Azure Virtual Machine, Azure Dedicated Host and Azure App Service has been extended until further notice.
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