Compute

Start using Azure Red Hat OpenShift on OpenShift 4.

An expanded selection of VMs can be used with Azure Batch, providing access to newer Azure VM series.

Simplify and secure your virtualization infrastructure, in the cloud, with Windows Virtual Desktop.

Service Fabric managed clusters reduce complexity and issues associated with managing a cluster made up of multiple resources.

Lower prices, more flexible purchase options, and an improved SLA.

You can now access the price history of Spot Virtual Machines and the eviction rate for the past 28 trailing days in the Azure portal.

Azure Container Registry is now generally available in US Gov Texas, Germany West Central, and Brazil Southeast regions bringing the number of Azure regions that it’s available in to 38.

Increase control over maintenance operations and ensure higher availability for your business-critical applications with two new features now in preview. You can now schedule host maintenance operations in addition to…

Microsoft announces general availability (GA) of the Azure VMware Solution service. The new Azure VMware Solutions is a first party Microsoft Azure Compute services that is directly operated, delivered, and…

FastTrack for Azure is a technical enablement program that helps customers with rapid and effective design and deployment of cloud solutions.

Azure can now select the dedicated host to which your VM is deployed. Additionally, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets can be deployed in conjunction with Dedicated Hosts.

The new D v4 and E v4 series Azure Virtual Machines feature the Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL custom processor, can achieve up to 3.4Ghz all core turbo frequency, and offer…

Get started today with Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview in US Government regions. Deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes.

Access Windows Virtual Desktop from the new Remote Desktop client for Android.

It’s now easier to deploy and manage Windows Virtual Desktop as well as provide seamless meeting and collaboration experiences through integration with Microsoft Teams.

Red Hat OpenShift 4.4 is now available on Azure Red Hat OpenShift.

To help you meet your compliance obligations across regulated industries and markets worldwide, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now ISO 27001 certified.

Virtual machine scale sets now provide the ability to automatically deploy new versions of custom images to scale set virtual machines.

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).

Azure Private Link for Azure Batch is now generally available in the West US 2, East US, South Central US, US Gov Virginia, and US Gov Arizona regions

Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines is now available in preview in US Gov Arizona. It's also available in an additional eighteen public regions around the world.

The new D v4-series and E v4-series Azure Virtual Machines feature the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL custom processor, which can achieve up to 3.4 Ghz all core turbo frequency. The…

The Azure Service Fabric 7.1 first refresh release includes bug fixes, and performance enhancements for standalone, and Azure environments.

The new Dd v4-series and Ed v4-series Azure Virtual Machines feature the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL custom processor. The Dd v4-series and Dds v4 virtual machine (VM) sizes are well…

Media optimization for Microsoft Teams is now available for Windows Desktop client on Windows 10 machines

Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines is now available in US Gov Virginia. It's also available in an additional eighteen public regions around the world.

Azure Container Registry diagnostic logs are now available.

Container Registry support for Private Link and ingress firewall, a means to limit the network traffic of resources within a virtual network, is now generally available.

Bring your own encryption key for Azure Container Registry is now available for new registries.

Azure Quantum is moving to limited preview.

Azure Private Link now supports multiple new Azure services in general availability and preview.

Dedicated data endpoints in Container Registry are now available in preview.

Azure Red Hat OpenShift on OpenShift 4 is now generally available.

Virtual machine scale sets now provide the capability to automatically repair unhealthy instances based on application health status.

Virtual machine scale sets now provides the ability to automatically deploy new versions of custom images to scale set virtual machines.

Buy unused compute capacity at deep discounts and run interruptible workloads at scale with Azure Spot Virtual Machines.

Azure Container Registry now supports Private Link, a means to limit network traffic of resources within the virtual network.

Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in Preview and GA.

Azure Service Fabric 7.0 fourth refresh release, which includes bug fixes and performance enhancements for standalone and Azure environments, has started rolling out to various Azure regions.

Azure Container Registry now supports built-in audit policies for Azure Policy

Bring your own encryption key for Azure Container Registry.

Azure virtual machine scale sets now provide the capability to automatically repair unhealthy instances based on application health status.

Manage virtual machine scale sets more effectively by specifying the order in which virtual machines (VMs) are deleted, or by protecting one or more VMs in a scale set from…

Update your servers and applications that communicate with Azure Container Registry to use transport layer security (TLS) 1.2 by March 13, 2020, to improve secure communication and to avoid any…

The Azure Service Fabric 7.0 third refresh release, which includes bug fixes, preview features, and performance enhancements, has started rolling out to various Azure regions.

The Azure Service Fabric 7.0 Second refresh release, which includes bug fixes, preview features, and performance enhancements, has started rolling out to various Azure regions.

Virtual network peering and ExpressRoute support in Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in preview.

Support for private endpoints in Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now available in preview.

Learn about the new or enhanced Azure Batch capabilities that were updated in the second half of 2019.

Azure Bastion is now generally available in two more Azure public cloud regions—East US 2 and West US 2. We'll continue to add more regions going forward.