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RSS feedMarch 2023
Now available: Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials
Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials is a Microsoft supported lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is fine tuned to run on edge devices with constrained resources.
GA: Spot Priority Mix
Deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set with both Spot and standard virtual machines using flexible orchestration mode.
Generally Available: Model Serving on Azure Databricks
Model Serving on Azure Databricks is now generally available
More transactions at no additional cost for Azure Standard SSD
Save money on billable transactions as we waive transaction fees for Azure Standard SSD customers that exceed the maximum hourly limit.
February 2023
Public preview: Incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
To ensure business continuity, incremental snapshots for Premium SSD V2 Disk Storage are now available in public preview in the US East and West Europe Azure region
Generally Available: Larger SKUs for App Service Environment v3
Using the new larger Isolated v2 SKUs, you can now run larger and more complex workloads.
Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files support for 2TiB capacity pools
Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 2TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 4TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.
Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre
Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system
Read-write premium caching now in public preview
Now you can do more with Azure HPC Cache at the same cost you’ve come to expect.
Generally Available: Azure Kubernetes Service introduces two pricing tiers: Free and Standard
Identify and use the most appropriate AKS tier for your projects.
December 2022
Public preview: New Memory Optimized VM sizes - E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5
New VM sizes provide the best remote storage performance of any Azure VMs to date. You can now process more data with fewer vCPUs while potentially reducing software licensing costs.
November 2022
Public preview: Azure HX series and HBv4 series virtual machines
Perfect for a range of HPC workloads, these new virtual machines series can give you a significant performance boost over our previous HB generation series.
General availability: Arm-based VMs now available in four additional Azure regions
The Azure Arm-based VMs are now available in four more regions.
General availability: DR secondary free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Optimize business costs by licensing your Disaster Recovery secondary for free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
Public preview: License Geo-redundant Disaster Recovery for SQL Managed Instance for free
Save on business continuity costs and license geographically redundant Disaster Recovery with Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Generally available: Increasing Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance up to 77%
Faster Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance at no cost.
October 2022
General availability: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage
Premium SSD v2 is the next generation Azure Premium SSD Disk Storage. It offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price-performance.
General availability: Azure savings plan for compute
Today, we’re officially announcing the general availability for Azure savings plan for compute.
General availability: Azure Stack HCI new features release
Get the latest features release, version 22H2, for Azure Stack HCI.
Public preview: New Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Spot Virtual Machines capabilities
You can now include standard VMs and Spot VMs in the same Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set. New VM-series are now supported with Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode.
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