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May 2021

May 12

General availability: Announcing lower pricing for provisioned throughput on Azure Ultra Disks

NOW AVAILABLE

Provisioned throughput price on Azure Ultra Disks is reduced by 65% in all regions where Ultra Disks are available

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
May 3

General availability: Azure Maps- new Gen2 pricing model available

NOW AVAILABLE

Get new Azure Maps features and potential cost savings with Gen2 pricing.

  • Azure Maps
  • Pricing & Offerings

April 2021

Apr 19

Announcing general availability of new M-series Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory VMs for memory-optimized workloads

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory Series offering up to 192vCPU and 4TB memory configurations and running on Cascade Lake processor are now generally available.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Pricing & Offerings
Apr 14

Public preview - Support for multiple currencies on Retail Rates API for all Azure products/services

IN PREVIEW

An unauthenticated experience to get retail prices in different currencies for all Azure products/services (including Reserved Instances).

  • Management
  • Pricing & Offerings
Apr 5

New Azure Cloud Services deployment model now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Use Azure Cloud Services (extended support), now generally available, to increase regional resiliency and gain access to new capabilities that the Azure Resource Manager-based deployment model provides.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
Apr 1

AMD-based Eav4-series virtual machines are now generally available in Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

The Eav4-series virtual machines are ideal for memory intensive workloads, and offer great performance for large in-memory business critical workloads at competitive price points on Azure HDInsight.

  • HDInsight
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings

March 2021

Mar 31

Enabling IBM WebSphere on Azure Kubernetes Service

NOW AVAILABLE

Customers can now leverage guidance jointly developed with IBM to run WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

  • Virtual Machines
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
Mar 10

New Norway East region added to Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

HDInsight is now generally available for Norway East customers.

  • HDInsight
  • Open Source
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
Mar 9

New Brazil Southeast region added to Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

HDInsight is now available for Brazil South customers requiring scenario-based in-country disaster recovery.

  • Open Source
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings

February 2021

Feb 24

General availability: Enabling IBM WebSphere on Azure Kubernetes Service

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now leverage guidance jointly developed with IBM to run WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Open Source
  • Pricing & Offerings
Feb 19

Datadog integration with Azure: Public Preview

IN PREVIEW

Datadog and Microsoft Azure have worked together to create an integrated Datadog SaaS solution. Built on Azure and available via the Azure Marketplace, this solution provides a seamless and first party like experience for Datadog’s cloud monitoring solution. Azure is the first cloud platform to offer this integrated experience with third-party solutions.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Management
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
Feb 17

Azure Dav4-series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight

NOW AVAILABLE

Adopt Dav4-series VMs in HDInsight to get great performance at a competitive price.

  • HDInsight
  • HDInsight Linux
  • Open Source
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings

January 2021

Jan 25

New Azure Cloud Services deployment model in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Use Azure Cloud Services (extended support), now in public preview, to increase regional resiliency and gain access to new capabilities that the Azure Resource Manager-based deployment model provides.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings

December 2020

Dec 11

Automatic VM placement and Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets available on Dedicated Host

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure can now select the dedicated host to which your VM is deployed. Additionally, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets can be deployed in conjunction with Dedicated Hosts.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Virtual Machines
  • Compliance
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
Dec 11

Intel SGX based confidential computing VMs now available on Azure Dedicated Hosts

NOW AVAILABLE

The new DCsv2_Type1 Dedicated Host SKUs add confidential computing capabilities to Azure Dedicated Hosts. The DCsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines can help protect the confidentiality and integrity of your data and code while it’s processed in the public cloud. Dedicated hosts will provide further isolation from other tenants, further enhancing the isolation aspect of secure applications within confidential computing.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
Dec 10

Azure Stack HCI is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Flexible HCI delivered as an Azure Hybrid Service

  • Azure Arc
  • Hybrid Data Services
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings
Dec 9

Microsoft Azure Purview provides unified data governance

IN PREVIEW

Announcing the public preview of a unified data governance service to maximize business value of data.

  • Microsoft Purview
  • Compliance
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
Dec 9

App Service Environment v3 now available in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Available with no stamp fee via new Isolated v2 SKU.

  • App Service
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
Dec 9

Enabling IBM WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Red Hat OpenShift

NOW AVAILABLE

Customers can easily deploy a variety of robust, production-ready WebSphere Liberty or Open Liberty architectures on Azure Red Hat OpenShift.

  • Azure Red Hat OpenShift
  • Features
  • Pricing & Offerings
Dec 7

HoloLens 2 Development Edition expands to new markets

NOW AVAILABLE

The Development Edition combines the capabilities of HoloLens 2 with Azure, Unity, and Pixyz to empower developers to build interactive experiences and render 3D holographic content with people, places, and things.

  • Pricing & Offerings

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