General Availability: Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration

Today we are announcing the general availability of standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration. Standby pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets enables you to increase scaling performance by creating a pool of pre-provisioned virtual machines. The virtual machines in the standby pool complete all post provisioning processes…

19/11/2024Azure Compute Blog

Share:

You may be interested in

Generally Available: SSD storage account support for Ephemeral OS disks
Azure Compute Blog,
We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of SSD storage account support for Ephemeral OS Disks during creation of VM/VMSS. This milestone builds on the momentum from our public…
14/07/2025
Public Preview: Custom metrics for rolling upgrades on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Azure Compute Blog,
Today we are announcing the public preview of custom metrics for rolling upgrades on Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Custom metrics for rolling upgrades enables you to utilize the application health extension to…
19/11/2024
Recovery options for Azure Virtual Machines (VM) affected by CrowdStrike Falcon agent
Azure Compute Blog,
We are aware of an issue that started on 19 July 2024 at 04:09UTC, which resulted in customers experiencing unresponsiveness and startup failures on Windows machines using the CrowdStrike Falcon…
24/07/2024
New: Multi Region Compute Fleet – Dynamically distribute workloads across regions
Azure Compute Blog,
Today we're excited to announce the preview release of Multi-region Compute Fleet, a new capability that allows you to dynamically distribute workloads across regions. Multi-region Compute Fleet is designed to…
19/11/2024
Public Preview: Zone Support for Standby Pools in Azure Container Instances
Azure Compute Blog,
We’re excited to announce that zone support for standby pools in Azure Container Instances (ACI) is now available in public preview! This new capability brings enhanced resiliency and placement control to…
14/05/2025
[Preview] Trusted launch Default for new Azure virtual machine, Scale set, compute gallery and disk
Azure Compute Blog,
Introduction Today, we are announcing public preview for upcoming Trusted Launch as default (TLaD) change that will affect new deployments of Gen2 Virtual Machines (VMs), Virtual Machine Scale Sets (Scale…
28/05/2025
Announcing the General Availability of Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines
Azure Compute Blog,
Today, Microsoft is excited to announce the General Availability of the new Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines (VMs), powered by the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids) processor. This…
21/05/2025
Cost Optimization for General Purpose VMs using Hibernation now Generally Available
Azure Compute Blog,
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…
28/05/2024
Announcing preview of new Azure Dasv7, Easv7, Fasv7-series VMs based on AMD EPYC™ ‘Turin’ processor
Azure Compute Blog,
Today, Microsoft is announcing preview of the new Azure AMD-based Virtual Machines (VMs), powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Turin) processors. The preview includes general purpose (Dasv7 & Dalsv7 series),…
09/09/2025
Exploring SUSE Enterprise Linux on Azure
Azure Compute Blog,
Exploring SUSE Enterprise Linux on Azure In today's cloud-centric world, leveraging robust and reliable operating systems is crucial for businesses. One such powerful combination is SUSE Enterprise Linux on Azure.…
24/10/2024
NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 VMs offering 400K IOPS and 10GBps throughput now generally available
Azure Compute Blog,
In September 2023, we announced the Public Preview of NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 VMs offering 400K IOPS and 10GBps throughput Virtual Machine (VM) sizes based on the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C processor offering…
11/07/2024
Public Preview: Standby Pools for Azure Container Instances
Azure Compute Blog,
Today we are announcing the public preview of Standby Pools for Azure Container Instances. Standby Pools for Azure Container Instances enable you to create a pool of pre-provisioned container groups…
19/11/2024