Compute

Migrate to App Service Environment version 3 by 31 August 2024.

On-demand capacity reservations let you reserve compute capacity for one or more VM size(s) in an Azure region or availability zone for any length of time.

Extended support for .NET Core 3.1 is ending on 13 December 2022.

Community support for Node 14 LTS is ending on 30 April 2023 – transition to Node 14 LTS by that date

A public preview of Azure Container Registry on Azure Stack Hub is available starting with Azure Stack Hub update 2108.

Azure HBv3 virtual machines are now upgraded to and generally available with AMD EPYC 3rd Gen processors with 3D V-Cache, codenamed “Milan-X”, in the Azure East US, South Central US,…

Transition to Premium V3 by 30 June 2022.

Community support for Node 12 LTS is ending on 30 April 2022 – transition to Node 14 LTS by that date

Community support for .NET 5 will end on 8 May 2022 – transition to .NET 6 by that date

Run highly available Java EE apps with Red Hat JBoss EAP on App Service with new clustering support.

Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure.

Azure Chaos Studio has new faults available for denying access to a Key Vault and shutting down a Classic Cloud Service.

Benefit from new features and enhancements in OpenShift release 4.9.

Create restore points in any region and copy restore points from one region to another.

You can now automatically delete disks, NICs, and Public IPs associated with a VM at the same time you delete the VM.

Handle unforeseen disk traffic spikes smoothly without the need to overprovision your virtual machine with virtual machine level disk bursting.

Start deploying Azure Container Apps into your own Azure virtual netowrks.

Placement policies enable admins to specify constraints or rules when allocating Virtual Machines within an Azure VMware Solution private cloud. With this update, the creation and assignment of vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler…

The new release includes Slurm and VMSS improvements as well as seven new bug fixes.

Transition to Container Insights by 31 May 2022.

Create an Azure Files share to store FSLogix profiles and configure it to support Azure AD authentication.

Azure VMware Solution has now expanded availability to France Central, this update is in addition to the existing availability multiple Azure regions in US, Europe, Australia, Japan, UK, Canada, Brazil…

JetStream Disaster Recovery is now generally available on Azure VMware Solution, enabling DR protection for VMware based business applications. JetStream Disaster Recovery for Azure VMware Solution is also cost-effective, leveraging…

The updated Run Commands are now management orientated, allows to run multiple scripts, track their progress and define Run Command resources in ARM templates to automate VM deployments.

Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Japan West. With this release Japan West is now the second region within the Japan sovereign area to become available (joining Japan East).

With VM Applications, you can create and securely store application packages in an Azure Compute Gallery. Package management is greatly simplified with logical grouping and versioning capabilities and packages can…

Citrix has announced official support for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on Azure VMware Solution. With this announcement you gain more choice and flexibility in the migration and modernization of…

ExpressRoute enables direct connectivity between on-premises and Microsoft global network. You can connect to virtual machines and private endpoints defined in an Azure virtual network with private peering.

Azure VMware Solution has now expanded availability to Germany West Central, this update is in addition to the existing availability multiple Azure regions in US, Europe, Australia, Japan, UK, Canada,…

Automated solution templates to run IBM WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), jointly developed with IBM, are now available in…

Azure Virtual Desktop now supports autoscale for pooled host pools to help you optimize costs.

With Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI, you can maintain full control over your infrastructure and enjoy the advantages of Azure Virtual Desktop in your own datacenter, including a…

Migrate on-premise apps that require custom configuration to App Service Environment v3.

You can now synchronize container images from your cloud registry and serve them on-premises for use by IoT devices and use the connected registry in an disconnected setting up to…

You now can choose where to store Ephemeral OS disks, either in VM temp disk or on VM cache. This enables Ephemeral OS disks to be created on more VM…

Zerto Disaster Recovery is now available and supported with Azure VMware Solution, delivering data protection and disaster recovery services that eliminate data loss and downtime for vSphere virtual machines running…

Azure Government customers can use Azure Red Hat OpenShift to build cloud-native applications

Deploy Windows 11 desktops and applications on Azure Virtual Desktop and utilize new capabilities while optimizing for cost.

Azure VMware Solution NFS datastores on Azure NetApp Files is currently in private preview and is coming soon. The solution provides more choice to optimize and scale storage for Azure…

VMware HCX is the primary migration solution for organizations moving VMware workloads natively to a cloud service like Azure VMware Solution. The HCX Enterprise Edition, now generally available with Azure…

Azure VMware Solution has now expanded availability to Brazil South and East US 2, this update is in addition to the existing availability across multiple Azure regions in US, Europe,…

You can now deploy Azure AD-joined VMs in your host pools for Azure Virtual Desktop.

Get started today with Azure Virtual Desktop in Azure China cloud. Deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes.

With this certification, U.S. government and public sector customers can now use Azure VMware Solution as a compliant FedRAMP cloud computing environment, ensuring it meets the demanding standards for security…

JetStream Disaster Recovery is now available on Azure VMware Solution in public preview, enabling DR protection needed for business and mission-critical applications. JetStream Disaster Recovery on Azure VMware Solution is…

Benefit from new features and enhancements in OpenShift release 4.8.

This new Azure Virtual Desktop feature prevents sensitive information from being captured in screen captures and screen shares.

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.

Run commands are a collection of PowerShell packages available in the Azure VMware Solution portal that simplify the execution of certain operations on vCenter. With this announcement your cloud administrator…

Several new pool and security features are now generally available.