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March 2024

Mar 29

Standard_NC6s_v3, Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30, 2025

Standard_NC6s_v3, Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30, 2025

  • Retirements
Mar 29

Standard_NC24rs_v3 virtual machines will be retired on March 31st, 2025

Target retirement date: March 31, 2025

Standard_NC24rs_v3 virtual machines will be retired on March 31st, 2025

  • Retirements

January 2024

Jan 18

Private Preview: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1 VMs to Gen2-Trusted launch

IN DEVELOPMENT

Target availability: Q1 2024

Support to upgrade existing Gen1 VMs to Trusted launch in preview.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features
Jan 10

General Availability: Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks support with Trusted launch

NOW AVAILABLE

Trusted launch VMs now support Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks storage.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Managed Disks
  • Ultra Disk Storage
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features

October 2023

Oct 4

General Availability: Upgrade your existing Azure Gen2 VMs to Trusted Launch

NOW AVAILABLE

Enable Trusted Launch foundational compute security on existing Azure Generation 2 VMs.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Features

September 2023

Sep 21

General Availability: Share VM images publicly with community gallery - Azure Compute Gallery feature

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q3 2023

With community gallery, you can now share VM images with the broader Azure community.

  • Management
  • Features
  • Gallery
  • Open Source

June 2023

Jun 1

Generally available: 8TB memory Mv2 Virtual Machine

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q2 2023

Mv2 8TB Memory virtual machine is generally available now for your in-memory workloads.

  • Features

May 2023

May 17

Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets

IN PREVIEW

Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge provides you a new way of upgrading VM instances in a Virtual Machine Scale Set to the latest scale set model.

  • Features

November 2022

Nov 16

General availability: Arm-based VMs now available in four additional Azure regions

NOW AVAILABLE

The Azure Arm-based VMs are now available in four more regions.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Pricing & Offerings
  • Regions & Datacenters

July 2022

Jul 25

Public preview: Share images across subscriptions and tenants with new Compute Gallery feature

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2022

Using direct shared gallery, a feature of Azure Compute Gallery, you can now share VM images directly with other subscriptions and tenants.

  • Features
  • Gallery

May 2022

May 25

Generally available Azure Ebsv5 now available in 13 additional regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Virtual Machines Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 are now available in 13 additional regions.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Regions & Datacenters
May 11

Generally available: Azure Compute Gallery support for trusted launch Virtual Machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Compute Gallery now allows you to create and share custom images for Trusted launch virtual machines

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Management
  • Features

April 2022

Apr 27

Public preview: Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q2 2022

New Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’ makes your private images public.

  • Features

September 2021

Sep 7

Public preview: Automatic scaling with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode

IN PREVIEW

This release provides improved quality and simplified Azure customer experience, giving you the opportunity to combine the functionality of Availability Sets and Virtual Machine Scale Sets.

  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Features

March 2021

Mar 31

General availability: Virtual machine (VM) level disk bursting available on all Dsv3 and Esv3 families

NOW AVAILABLE

Virtual machine (VM) level disk bursting enables your workloads to handle unforeseen disk traffic spikes smoothly without the need to overprovision your virtual machine. The feature is now enabled on all Dsv3-series and Esv3-series virtual machines.

  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Features
Mar 3

Azure trusted launch for Virtual Machines now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure offers trusted launch as a seamless way to bolster the security of Generation 2 VMs. Designed to protect against boot kits, rootkits, and kernel-level malware, trusted launch is comprised of secure boot, virtual trusted platform module (vTPM), and boot integrity monitoring.

  • Virtual Machines
  • Security
  • Features

June 2020

Jun 25

Ephemeral OS disks for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) now support additional VM sizes

IN PREVIEW

You now have the ability to store ephemeral OS disks on the VM temp or resource disk in addition to the VM cache (in preview).

  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Managed Disks
  • Features

March 2019

Mar 18

Azure Backup SQL Servers running in Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Target availability: Q1 2019

Learn about this pay-as-you-go service that uses native SQL backup and restore APIs to provide a comprehensive solution to backup SQL servers running in Azure IaaS VMs.

  • Azure Backup
  • Virtual Machines
  • SQL Reporting
  • Compliance
  • Management
  • Features

October 2018

Oct 2

Disaster recovery for Azure Disk Encryption–enabled virtual machines

NOW AVAILABLE

You can replicate virtual machines, enabled for encryption through the Azure Active Directory app, from one Azure region to another region.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Virtual Machines
  • Features

June 2018

Jun 4

Standard SSD Disks for Azure Virtual Machines is now in public preview

IN PREVIEW

Azure Standard SSDs are a cost-effective Managed Disk solution optimized for dev-test and entry-level production applications requiring consistent latency.

  • Storage Accounts
  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
  • Features

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