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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.

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available in Brazil South, Central India, Japan East, Korea Central, North Central US and South Africa North.

Serial console is now available in preview in the Azure US Government Cloud, allowing customers in the government-only clouds to access the serial console of their VMs or virtual machine…

Azure Monitor for virtual machines (VMs) now stores computer-related and process-related data in dedicated data types, making it simpler to query against as well as offering quicker data ingestion.

Service Map now stores computer-related and process-related data in dedicated data types, making it simpler to query against as well as offering quicker data ingestion.

The new Azure Service Fabric release introduces several new features as well as stability and performance improvements.

Buy unused compute capacity at deep discounts and run interruptible workloads at scale with Azure Spot VMs now in Preview.

Announcing the public preview of repository-scoped RBAC permissions for Azure Container Registry (ACR).

Diagnostic logs for Azure Container Registry are now in preview.

Generation 2 VMs are now generally available in Azure. New available features include Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX), support for large VMs (up to 12 TBs), and the ability…

New Azure Dav4-series and Eav4-series virtual machines (VMs) based on AMD EPYC™ are now available. They are ideal for general purpose and memory intensive workloads.

Customers can now store content formats such as Helm charts, OCI Artifacts and images built to the Open Container Initiative (OCI) Image Format Specification, in addition to Docker containers. Use…

Announcing the possibility to use hourly pay as you go prices right away for Azure Red Hat OpenShift without the need to pre-purchase reserved instances.

New virtual machine scale sets features simplify the management of virtual machines while improving their runtime and performance capabilities.

The Service Map feature of Azure Monitor is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia, and Central India, so it's now available…

Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in South Central US, West US, Central US, North Central US, East Asia, and Central India. It's available around the world in eighteen…

Azure Container Registry is now generally available in the UAE North region, bringing the total number of Azure regions that it's available in to 33. See the list of all…

Updates to Azure Monitor for virtual machines (preview) will be launched in mid-November, 2019, ahead of the general availability (GA) release.

Updates for Service Map are coming that will change where we store some of our data in Log Analytics. These updates should be completed sometime in November, 2019.

Today, we announce the worldwide general availability of Windows Virtual Desktop. It is the only service that delivers simplified management, a multi-session Windows 10 experience, optimizations for Office 365 ProPlus,…

Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Machines is now available in Japan East, North Europe, and East US2.

The Service Map feature of Azure Monitor is now available in Japan East, North Europe, and East US2.

Service Fabric Azure Files Volume Driver is now generally available. The Azure Files volume plugin is a Docker volume plugin that provides Azure Files based volumes for Docker containers.

Azure Service Fabric 6.5 Second Refresh Release rolled out last month with key announcements, along with bug fixes, and performance enhancements.

The deployment of Service Fabric applications as resources via Azure Resource Manager is now generally available.

Azure Service Fabric applications now support user-assigned and system-assigned managed identities.

Use Container Registry Tasks to assemble Buildpacks and base stack tracking for OS and framework patching.

Container Registry Tasks, which supports cloud build and graph execution of containers, now supports automated scheduling.

Easily self-diagnose the most common issues with registry connectivity using Azure Container Registry Health Check APIs.

Azure Monitor for VMs is now available in East Australia and South East Australia. Around the world, it is available in nine public regions.

The bugs identified in 6.5 Release of the Service Fabric runtime has been fixed in this refresh release and started rolling out to the various Azure regions along with tooling…

Azure Container Registry is now generally available in South Africa North. See where Azure Container Registry is available and where it's coming next in the list of Azure products available…

Service Fabric 6.5 release version has been rolled out to the various Azure regions along with tooling and SDK updates. The release contains many new features, bug fixes, supportability, reliability…

Helm 3 support is now in preview. This update brings support for storing Helm 3 charts, the next version of Helm, which brings an improved security model, and a new…

Azure Container Registry –OCI new artifact registry types support is now in preview.

Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a fully managed Red Hat OpenShift service, jointly operated with Red Hat is now available.

Virtual network and firewall rules support is now available in Azure Container Registry in preview.

AKS virtual node, now available to the public, allows you to elastically provision additional pods inside Container Instances that start in seconds.

Cross availability zones allows Azure Service Fabric customers to have increased reliability via cross availability zone support for Service Fabric clusters.

Azure Container Registry content trust is now available to the public.

The Azure Container Registry Helm webhooks feature enables new continuous integration/continuous deployment workflows based on new or updated Helm charts.

Tag locking, which allows for building a trusted workflow, is now generally available.

Here are the latest new or enhanced capabilities for Azure Batch, available now.

Service Fabric Mesh preview is being updated with some new features, and improvements based on feedback we’ve received.

Currently, Azure Traffic Manager can automatically enable, disable, or delete endpoints when starting, stopping, or deleting the corresponding cloud service. However, this option will be retired on May 1, 2019,…

Support for storing singularity image files (SIF) in Azure Container Registry based on the OCI distribution-based container registries specification is now available in preview.

General availability of Azure Service Fabric version 6.4 CU5 with the corresponding SDK and tooling.

Service Fabric version 6.5 runtime and SDK are in development with new features and improvements.

Azure Container Instances overall price reductions of anywhere between 35% and 50% depending on region and usage pattern.

REST based Client library and PowerShell module for Service Fabric is currently in preview. This HTTP REST based client enables running PowerShell and Azure CLI to manage your cluster(s) without…