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General Availability: New General-Purpose VMs - Dlsv5 and Dldsv5
The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio.
March 2023
Batch custom image pools using VHD or managed images will be retired on 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: April 01, 2026
Transition custom image pools use images from Azure Compute Gallery
Batch Service in select regions will be retired on 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: April 01, 2026
Migrate your Batch workloads before 31 March 2026 to other regions where Azure Batch will continue to be available.
Select Batch Pool autoscale service-defined variables will be retired on 31 March 2024
Target retirement date: April 01, 2026
Remove references in your autoscale formula for the service-defined variables
Azure Batch classic compute node communication model will be retired on 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: April 01, 2026
Transition Batch pools to the Simplified compute node communication model
Azure Machine Learning - Generally availability updates for March 2023
New features now available in GA include the ability to visualize timeseries models, and create a Compute Instance on behalf of another user.
February 2023
Public preview: New General-Purpose VMs - Dlsv5 and Dldsv5
The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio.
November 2022
Generally available: Azure Synapse Link for SQL
Azure Synapse Link for SQL enables seamless near-real-time data movement from relational sources in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2022 to analytical stores without needing to build ETL pipelines.
October 2022
Public preview: Native delta lake output connector
You can now configure a Stream Analytics job to write streaming data to either a new or an existing delta lake yable in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Azure Batch Certificates will be retired on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: March 01, 2024
Retirement Notice: Transition to Azure Key Vault before 29 February 2024.
Azure Batch pools without public IP addresses (classic) will be retired on 31 March 2023
Target retirement date: April 01, 2023
Retirement notice: Transition to Simplified compute node communication pools without public IP addresses by 31 March 2023
Microsoft HPC Pack Burst to Cloud Services will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: September 01, 2024
Retirement Notice: Transition to Burst to Azure IaaS VM or Burst to Azure Batch service before 31 August 2024.
September 2022
Azure Batch Low Priority VMs will be retired on 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: October 01, 2025
Retirement Notice: Transition to Azure Batch Spot VMs before 30 September 2025.
Azure Batch Job/Pool Lifetime Statistics API will be retired on 30 April 2023
Target retirement date: May 01, 2023
Retirement Notice: Stop using Batch Job/Pool Lifetime Statistics API by 30 April 2023.
Azure Batch TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 31 March 2023
Target retirement date: April 01, 2023
Retirement notice: Transition to Azure Batch TLS 1.2 by 31 March 2023.
June 2022
General availability: Azure Machine Learning announcements for June 2022
New features include MLflow enhancements and train and deploy models in Azure hybrid and multi-cloud.
Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB SQL API Go SDK improvements
Use new Go SDK features in your Azure Cosmos DB SQL API account including authentication with Azure Active Directory, the ability to execute single partition queries, and transactional batch support.
May 2022
Public preview: Azure Synapse Link for SQL
Synapse Link for SQL enables seamless near-real-time data movement from relational sources to analytical stores without the need to build ETL pipelines.
Generally available: Azure Machine Learning managed endpoints and Command Line Interface v2
Deploy your machine learning models in a turnkey manner across powerful GPU and GPU machines. CLI v2 now also generally available.
April 2022
Generally available: Migrate devices across templates at scale in Azure IoT Central
Migrating devices across device templates at scale is now supported in Azure IoT Central jobs.
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