Demystifying Azure VM Maintenance: A practical guide to minimizing disruptions

Azure regularly updates its platform to enhance the host infrastructure for virtual machines, focusing on reliability, performance, and security. The updates can range from operating system, hypervisor, various networking components/agents deployed on the host, to hardware decommissioning: There are two types of VM maintenance: Planned maintenance events are…

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