We recently announced the public preview of Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration. Standby Pools is a new service that enables you to increase your scaling…
During Microsoft Ignite 2023, we previewed the ability to hibernate VMs, making it easier for customers to save Compute costs. Hibernating a VM deallocates the machine while persisting the VM’s…
Azure Functions triggers and bindings enable you to easily integrate event and data sources with function applications. With SDK type bindings, you can use types from service SDKs and frameworks, providing more…
HTTP streams lets you accept and return data from your HTTP endpoints using FastAPI request and response APIs enabled in your functions. These APIs lets the host process large data…
Today we are announcing the public preview of Azure Compute Fleet, a new service that allows you to manage and deploy thousands of virtual machines (across a mix of SKU’s,…
Today, Microsoft is announcing the preview of the new Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) featuring the Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based processor. The Cobalt 100 processor is based on the Neoverse N-series…
Introduction: RedHat announced that the Linux 7 will enter the Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) phase beginning from July 1, 2024.Initially slated for deprecation, RedHat is allowing customers to remain on…
Azure's collaboration with Canonical is redefining the industry benchmark for safely patching Linux distributions in the cloud. This partnership underscores Azure’s commitment to customer security since Ubuntu images are…
Today, we're announcing the general availability of on demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines in Azure for US Government Cloud . You can now manage and reserve capacity with guaranteed SLA…
Public Preview of on demand capacity reservations for Specialty SKUs for Azure Virtual Machines is now available. On demand capacity reservation would now allow you to deploy and manage the compute capacity…
Introduction If you are using Azure compute services, such as virtual machines, dedicated hosts, or container instances, you may be wondering how to optimize your spending. Azure offers two pricing…
The Azure Functions team is thrilled to share the key investments made in 2023 to enhance the Python experience! This year has been a big one for Python, with a…
Authors: Kaza Sriram, Senior Product Manager We are excited to announce the public preview of single instance VM regional to zonal move, a new feature that allows you to…
Today, we’re making it possible to attach a running Virtual Machine (VM) to an existing Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) with no downtime. VMSS customers can now also detach a…
Written by Lauren Britton, PhD, Sr. Product Manager and Sasha Malamed, Sr. Product Manager, Azure Compute VMs Platform Summary We are thrilled to announce new general purpose, memory-optimized, and…
We are excited to announce that Azure is making it easier for customers to reduce Compute costs by providing them the ability to hibernate Virtual Machines (VMs). Starting today, customers…
Azure now has broader support for Arm customers and partners. Partners, with solutions built for Arm-based architecture, can now add their Arm products to the Azure Marketplace, and customers can…
Bad actors can expose a new security vulnerability to initiate a DDoS attack on a customer’s infrastructure. This attack is leveraged against servers implementing the HTTP/2 protocol. Windows, .NET Kestrel,…
Authors: Jerry Steele, Senior Product Manager We're thrilled to introduce the public preview of VMSS Zonal Expansion. This feature enables you to take regionally (non-zonal) configured VMs and distribute across Azure…
Introduction We would like to inform you the upcoming default security type change to Trusted Launch that will affect new virtual machines (VMs), virtual machine scale sets (VMSS), and OS Disk resource…
Organizations are benefiting from Azure savings plan for compute to save up to 65% on select compute services – and you could too. By committing to spending a fixed hourly amount…
On May 5th, 2023, we announced increased remote storage performance with NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 VMs now generally available, offering up to 260,000 IOPS (I/O operations per second) and 8,000MBps of remote disk storage…
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the latest generations of Azure Burstable virtual machine (VM) series – the new Bsv2, Basv2, and Bpsv2 VMs based on the Intel®…
Azure is an ideal platform for Linux as over 60% of the cores customers use in Azure run Linux. Azure offers a broad Linux and open-source ecosystem to support any…
As you embark on cloud innovation, it's essential to give top priority to optimizing costs and enhancing performance. To help achieve these goals, customers can now save up to 50%…
Microsoft Azure Compute is pleased to announce the introduction of new throttling policies for compute API requests. These throttling policies are designed to reduce the throttling experienced by customers on…
Learn how you can save money with the Azure saving plan recommendations. with your host Thomas Maurer and Azure savings plan expert Obinna Nwokolo. Azure savings plan feature recap.…
Azure is working towards enhancing the security awareness for customers that are using the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS image. Since the Ubuntu 18.04 image reached end of standard support in May…
We are pleased to announce the public preview of the latest versions of the CPU burstable B family of Azure Virtual Machines. The new additions to the B family consist…
Introduction: OpenLogic announced that the CentOS 8 OS images will reach end-of-life (EOL) after December 2021. This means that OpenLogic will no longer provide technical support, software updates, or security…
Today, we are excited to announce a preview of Azure Container Instances (ACI) Spot containers. ACI Spot containers offer an improved pricing plan for ACI by allowing you to take…
We are announcing an upcoming breaking change to the default orchestration mode for Virtual Machine Scale Sets created on Portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI. This change will take effect over…
Introduction: Canonical announced that the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) OS images will reach end-of-life (EOL) by end of May 2023. This means that Canonical will no longer provide technical…
The Azure Functions team is thrilled to share that the v2 programming model for Python is now Generally Available! The v2 programming model enables customers to easily create Functions…
Introduction In today's competitive environment, optimizing the performance of virtual machines (VMs) for various workloads is crucial. Continuing from our first blog, `Scaling Azure Arm64 VMs with Microsoft’s Build…
The Java Engineering Group (JEG) optimized the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK for Azure's first Ampere Altra Arm-based VM families as an essential part of this launch. The Ampere Altra CPUs…
Azure Virtual Machines are an excellent solution for hosting both new and legacy applications. However, as your services and workloads become more complex and demand increases, your costs may also…
At Microsoft Ignite in October 2022, we announced the preview of NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 Virtual Machine (VM) sizes based on the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C processor offering higher remote storage…
This blog contains important reminder about removing the guest user’s classic co-administrator access to subscriptions and upcoming classic cloud service deprecation on August 31st, 2024. Who will be affected?…
Microsoft is announcing the public preview of Azure Dlsv5/Dldsv5 Virtual Machines featuring 2GiB RAM per vCPU running on 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Ice Lake). The public preview is…
Microsoft has been working with the EESSI consortium for the past two years and provided Azure Credits to support the hosting of EESSI’s geographically distributed CernVM-FS servers on Azure and…
Azure Functions: V2 Python Programming Model The Azure Functions team released the V2 programming model for Python, learn more about the offering and try it out today! The…
On April 5th, 2022, we announced the general availability of the Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VM family, offering up to 120,000 IOPS (I/O operations per second) and 4,000MBps of remote disk…
Today we are announcing the preview of Spot priority mix for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) with flexible orchestration. This new capability allows you to create and expand a…
As a cloud provider, we are committed to helping our customers get the most value out of their cloud investment through a comprehensive set of pricing models, offers and…