Announcements and updates

This series of blog posts includes the most important announcements and major updates regarding Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, officialized by Microsoft in the last two weeks. Azure Compute New centralized management experience for Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server (preview) Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server helps reduce costs by…

This series of blog posts includes the most important announcements and major updates regarding Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, officialized by Microsoft in the last two weeks. Azure Compute What’s new in Azure VMware Solution Azure VMware Landing Zone is now publically available. It is Microsoft’s prescriptive, opinionated and best-practices backed…

This series of blog posts includes the most important announcements and major updates regarding Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, officialized by Microsoft in the last two weeks. Azure Compute Azure VMware Solution achieves FedRAMP High Authorization With this certification, U.S. government and public sector customers can now use Azure VMware Solution…

This series of blog posts includes the most important announcements and major updates regarding Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, officialized by Microsoft in the last two weeks. Azure Compute On-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines (preview) On-demand capacity reservations for Azure Virtual Machines, now in public preview, enable IT organization…

This series of blog posts includes the most important announcements and major updates regarding Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, officialized by Microsoft in the last two weeks. Azure Compute Placement polices for Azure VMware Solution (preview) Placement policies are used to define constraints for running virtual machines in the Azure VMware…

This series of blog posts includes the most important announcements and major updates regarding Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, officialized by Microsoft in the last two weeks. Azure Compute Automatic Azure VM extension upgrade capabilities  Azure Virtual Machine extensions are small applications that provide post-deployment configuration and automation on Azure VMs. The…

This series of blog posts includes the most important announcements and major updates regarding Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, officialized by Microsoft in the last two weeks. Azure Storage Shared disks on Azure Disk Storage are now generally available on all Premium SSD and Standard SSD sizes Shared disks can now…

This series of blog posts includes the most important announcements and major updates regarding Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, officialized by Microsoft in the last two weeks. Azure Compute Free Extended Security Updates only on Azure for Windows Server 2012/R2and SQL Server 2012 On-premises Windows Server and SQL Server customers looking to…

This series of blog posts includes the most important announcements and major updates regarding Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Azure Stack, officialized by Microsoft in the last two weeks. Azure Compute Azure VM Image Builder service: custom image building process Azure VM Image Builder service is a managed service to build custom Linux…