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April 2023

Apr 3

General Availability: New General-Purpose VMs - Dlsv5 and Dldsv5

NOW AVAILABLE

The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services

March 2023

Mar 24

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
  • Retirements
  • Features
Mar 24

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.

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Services
Mar 17

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

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
Mar 17

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

  • Batch
  • Retirements
Mar 16

Azure Machine Learning - Generally availability updates for March 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

New features now available in GA include the ability to visualize timeseries models, and create a Compute Instance on behalf of another user.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Features

February 2023

Feb 20

Public preview: New General-Purpose VMs - Dlsv5 and Dldsv5

IN PREVIEW

The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 VM series provide 2GiBs per vCPU and can offer lower price points within the general-purpose Azure Virtual Machines portfolio.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services

November 2022

Nov 16

Generally available: Azure Synapse Link for SQL

NOW AVAILABLE

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.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

October 2022

Oct 12

Public preview: Native delta lake output connector

IN PREVIEW

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 Stream Analytics
  • Microsoft Ignite
  • Features
Oct 7

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.

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
Oct 7

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

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
Oct 7

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.

  • Retirements
  • Features

September 2022

Sep 30

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.

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
Sep 30

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.

  • Batch
  • Retirements
Sep 30

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.

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features

June 2022

Jun 22

General availability: Azure Machine Learning announcements for June 2022

NOW AVAILABLE

New features include MLflow enhancements and train and deploy models in Azure hybrid and multi-cloud.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Azure Arc
  • Features
Jun 22

Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB SQL API Go SDK improvements

IN PREVIEW

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.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Features

May 2022

May 24

Public preview: Azure Synapse Link for SQL

IN PREVIEW

Synapse Link for SQL enables seamless near-real-time data movement from relational sources to analytical stores without the need to build ETL pipelines.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft Build
  • Management
  • Features
May 24

Generally available: Azure Machine Learning managed endpoints and Command Line Interface v2

NOW AVAILABLE

Deploy your machine learning models in a turnkey manner across powerful GPU and GPU machines. CLI v2 now also generally available.

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Microsoft Build
  • Services

April 2022

Apr 12

Generally available: Migrate devices across templates at scale in Azure IoT Central

NOW AVAILABLE

Migrating devices across device templates at scale is now supported in Azure IoT Central jobs.

  • Azure IoT Central
  • Features

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