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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
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
January 2024
Private Preview: Upgrade existing Azure Gen1 VMs to Gen2-Trusted launch
Target availability: Q1 2024
Support to upgrade existing Gen1 VMs to Trusted launch in preview.
General Availability: Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks support with Trusted launch
Trusted launch VMs now support Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks storage.
October 2023
General Availability: Upgrade your existing Azure Gen2 VMs to Trusted Launch
Enable Trusted Launch foundational compute security on existing Azure Generation 2 VMs.
September 2023
General Availability: Share VM images publicly with community gallery - Azure Compute Gallery feature
Target availability: Q3 2023
With community gallery, you can now share VM images with the broader Azure community.
June 2023
Generally available: 8TB memory Mv2 Virtual Machine
Target availability: Q2 2023
Mv2 8TB Memory virtual machine is generally available now for your in-memory workloads.
May 2023
Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
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.
November 2022
General availability: Arm-based VMs now available in four additional Azure regions
The Azure Arm-based VMs are now available in four more regions.
July 2022
Public preview: Share images across subscriptions and tenants with new Compute Gallery feature
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.
May 2022
Generally available Azure Ebsv5 now available in 13 additional regions
Azure Virtual Machines Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 are now available in 13 additional regions.
Generally available: Azure Compute Gallery support for trusted launch Virtual Machines
Azure Compute Gallery now allows you to create and share custom images for Trusted launch virtual machines
April 2022
Public preview: Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’
Target availability: Q2 2022
New Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’ makes your private images public.
September 2021
Public preview: Automatic scaling with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode
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.
March 2021
General availability: Virtual machine (VM) level disk bursting available on all Dsv3 and Esv3 families
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 trusted launch for Virtual Machines now in public 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.
June 2020
Ephemeral OS disks for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) now support additional VM sizes
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).
March 2019
Azure Backup SQL Servers running in Azure Virtual Machines is now generally 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.
October 2018
Disaster recovery for Azure Disk Encryption–enabled virtual machines
You can replicate virtual machines, enabled for encryption through the Azure Active Directory app, from one Azure region to another region.
June 2018
Standard SSD Disks for Azure Virtual Machines is now in public preview
Azure Standard SSDs are a cost-effective Managed Disk solution optimized for dev-test and entry-level production applications requiring consistent latency.
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