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2026 24

  1. Generally Available: Automatic Zone Balance for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  2. Microsoft and IBM bring enterprise-scale workload orchestration to Azure with IBM Spectrum Symphony
  3. Announcing General Availability of Azure Lasv5 and Laosv5 VMs Based on 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors
  4. Public Preview: Automatic Zone Placement for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  5. Announcing general availability of Ephemeral OS Disk with full caching for VM/VMSS
  6. Announcing General Availability of Disable Multithreading and Configurable Constrained Cores
  7. ACI Sandboxes: A Glimpse into the Future of Agentic Compute
  8. Announcing Preview of new Azure Lasv5 and Laosv5 VMs based on the AMD EPYC™ ‘Turin’ processor
  9. Announcing Preview of Guest RDMA for Azure Boost
  10. Public preview: Automatic OS Image Upgrades for VMSS Flex
  11. Announcing the general availability of Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module
  12. Announcing the General Availability of the Next Generation of Azure Boost
  13. Public Preview: Migrate your regional virtual machines to availability zones
  14. Announcing General Availability of Azure Dl/D/Esv7-series VMs based on Intel® Xeon® 6 processors
  15. Use Azure Container Registry as an Upstream Source for Artifact Cache
  16. Public Preview: Migrate Availability Sets to Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  17. Azure Reserved VM Instances for select VM series will no longer be available starting July 1, 2026
  18. AI-Powered Downtime Investigation for Azure VMs: Automating Root Cause Analysis
  19. Public Preview: Ephemeral OS Disk with full caching for VM/VMSS
  20. Upcoming Compute API Change: Always return non-null securityType
  21. Public Preview: Automatic zone balance for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  22. Azure Automated Virtual Machine Recovery: Minimizing Downtime
  23. Announcing General Availability of Azure Da/Ea/Fasv7-series VMs based on AMD ‘Turin’ processors
  24. Improving Efficiency through Adaptive CPU Uncore Power Management

2025 41

  1. Scaling Azure Compute for Performance
  2. Golazo: A Framework for Streamlined Engineering
  3. Introducing Metadata Security Protocol (MSP): Elevating Platform Security for Azure VMs
  4. Announcing the Preview of the new Azure Ebsv6 VMs based on the 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processor
  5. Announcing General Availability of Scheduled Actions for Azure Virtual Machines
  6. Enhancing Resiliency in Azure Compute Gallery
  7. Reimagining VM Application Management for an AI-Powered, Secure Future
  8. Announcing preview of new Azure Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 VMs based on Intel® Xeon® 6 processors
  9. Your guide to Azure Compute at Microsoft Ignite 2025
  10. Revolutionizing Reliability: Introducing the Azure Failure Prediction and Detection (AFPD) system
  11. Streamline Cloud Spend with Azure Reserved VM Instances
  12. Announcing Preview of vCore Customization: Disable Multithreading & Configurable Constrained Cores
  13. Public Preview for Sharing Capacity Reservation Groups - now available
  14. Jump Starting Quantum Computing on Azure
  15. Power stabilization for AI training datacenters
  16. Microsoft Azure Introduces Azure Integrated HSM: A Key Cache for Virtual Machines
  17. Announcing preview of new Azure Dasv7, Easv7, Fasv7-series VMs based on AMD EPYC™ ‘Turin’ processor
  18. Announcing General Availability of Azure D192 Sizes in the Azure Dsv6 and Ddsv6-series VM Families
  19. Increase security for Azure VMs: Trusted launch in-place upgrade support now available!
  20. Upcoming Changes to Instance Size Flexibility Ratios for Azure Reservations: What You Need to Know
  21. Announcing General Availability of Azure E128 & E192 Sizes in the Esv6 and Edsv6-series VM Families
  22. Kernel Dump based Online Repair
  23. Generally Available: SSD storage account support for Ephemeral OS disks
  24. Use Radius to Deploy your applications to Azure Container Instances
  25. Announcing the general availability of Azure Laosv4, Lasv4, and Lsv4 storage optimized VMs
  26. General Availability: Custom Metrics for Rolling Upgrades on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  27. General Availability: Standby Pools for Azure Container Instances
  28. [Preview] Trusted launch Default for new Azure virtual machine, Scale set, compute gallery and disk
  29. Announcing General Availability: Ephemeral OS Disk support for v6 Azure VMs
  30. Announcing the General Availability of Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines
  31. Announcing Preview of New Azure Dnl/Dn/En v6 VMs powered by Intel 5th Gen processor & Azure Boost
  32. Now Available: Degraded Mode Health State for Standby Pools
  33. Public Preview: Zone Support for Standby Pools in Azure Container Instances
  34. Now Available: Logging and Monitoring for Standby Pools in VMSS and ACI
  35. Public Preview: Predictive Pooling for Standby Pools
  36. Public Preview: Use Spot Instances in Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  37. Public Preview: Hibernated VMs in Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  38. Azure Compute Fleet - Generally Available
  39. General Availability: Instance Mix for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration Mode
  40. Announcing General Availability of Azure Dl/D/E v6 VMs powered by Intel EMR processor & Azure Boost
  41. Introducing SSD storage account support for Ephemeral OS disks

2024 41

  1. Using Microsoft Copilot in Azure to find the best VM size for you
  2. New Da/Ea/Fav6 VMs with increased performance and Azure Boost are now generally available
  3. Public Preview: Resilient Create and Delete on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  4. New: Attribute-based VM selection for Azure Compute Fleet
  5. Optimizing Spot VM availability with Azure Spot placement scores
  6. New: Multi Region Compute Fleet - Dynamically distribute workloads across regions
  7. General Availability Announcement: VMSS Zonal Expansion
  8. Product Update: Azure Compute Fleet - Empowering Large-Scale Deployments
  9. General Availability: MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  10. Public Preview: Standby Pools for Azure Container Instances
  11. Public Preview: Custom metrics for rolling upgrades on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  12. General Availability: Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration
  13. General Availability: Upgrade Policies on Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orchestration
  14. VMSS- Reimage-Activity logs analysis
  15. Upcoming Changes to Instance Size Flexibility Ratios for Reserved VM Instances for M-series
  16. Exploring SUSE Enterprise Linux on Azure
  17. Announcing Public Preview of new attach/detach disks API for VMs/VMSS
  18. Fine-tuning a Hugging Face Diffusion Model on CycleCloud Workspace for Slurm
  19. Public Preview Announcement-On Demand Capacity Reservation in Azure in China
  20. Incoming Changes for Window Server 2022 Marketplace Image Users
  21. Announcing the public preview of the new Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines
  22. Effortlessly Migrate Azure VMs between zones
  23. Announcing Public Preview of Instance Mix on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  24. Announcing General Availability of Attach & Detach of Virtual Machines on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  25. Recovery options for Azure Virtual Machines (VM) affected by CrowdStrike Falcon agent
  26. Azure Capacity Reservations with Automatic Consumption
  27. Announcing Preview of New Azure Dlsv6, Dsv6, Esv6 VMs with new CPU, Azure Boost, and NVMe Support
  28. General Availability Announcement: Azure VM Regional to Zonal Move
  29. NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 VMs offering 400K IOPS and 10GBps throughput now generally available
  30. Announcing the Public Preview of Upgrade Policies for Virtual Machine Scale Sets with Flexible Orche
  31. Announcing the Public Preview of Standby Pools for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  32. Cost Optimization for General Purpose VMs using Hibernation now Generally Available
  33. Azure Functions: SDK type bindings for Azure Blob Storage with Azure Functions in Python (Preview)
  34. Azure Functions: Support for HTTP Streams in Python is now in Preview!
  35. Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Compute Fleet
  36. Announcing the preview of new Azure VMs based on the Azure Cobalt 100 processor
  37. The Impact of RedHat Linux 7 Extended Life Cycle Support on Azure Guest Patching Customers
  38. Increased security and resiliency of Canonical workloads on Azure - General Availability
  39. On Demand Capacity Reservation is now available in Azure for US Government
  40. Capacity Reservation for Specialty SKUs—now available
  41. How to optimize your Azure compute spend with savings plan and reserved instances

2023 29

  1. Azure Functions using Python: 2023 in Review
  2. Public Preview Announcement: Azure VM Regional to Zonal Move
  3. Public Preview of Attach and Detach of Virtual Machines on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  4. Public Preview: New AMD-based VMs with Increased Performance, Azure Boost, and NVMe Support
  5. Reduce Compute Costs by Pausing VMs (now in public preview)
  6. Announcing the support of Arm-based VM solutions on Azure Marketplace
  7. How Azure is keeping customers secure against the Rapid Reset DDoS Vulnerability
  8. Public Preview Announcement: Azure VMSS Zonal Expansion
  9. Breaking Change for VM & VMSS PowerShell/CLI Customers
  10. Azure savings plan for compute: How the benefit is applied
  11. Announcing Public Preview of NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 VMs offering 400K IOPS and 10GBps throughput
  12. Announcing the general availability of new Azure burstable virtual machines
  13. Save up to 50% on select Linux VMs in Sweden Central for a limited time
  14. Save up to 50% on select Dv3 VMs in US West for a limited time
  15. Introducing new compute throttling policies
  16. Understanding your Azure savings plan recommendations
  17. Azure Provides Enhanced Security Awareness with Ubuntu Pro
  18. Announcing public preview of new burstable VMs - Bsv2, Basv2 and Bpsv2
  19. Impact of CentOS 8 End of Life on Azure Guest Patching Customers
  20. Announcing public preview of Azure Container Instances Spot containers
  21. Breaking Change for VMSS PowerShell/CLI Customers
  22. Impact of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver): End of Life on Azure Guest Patching Customers
  23. Azure Functions: V2 Python Programming Model is Generally Available
  24. Optimizing Java Workloads on Azure General Purpose D-series v5 VMs with Microsoft’s Build of OpenJDK
  25. Scaling Azure Arm64 VMs with Microsoft’s Build of OpenJDK: A Performance Testing Journey
  26. Cost Optimization Practices for Azure VMs – VM services
  27. Increased remote storage performance with NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 VMs now generally available
  28. Azure Classic Subscription Administrator: guest user (… and why you should care)
  29. Compute Intensive workloads gain better price-performance on Azure Dlsv5/Dldsv5 VM in public preview

2022 18

  1. Accessing the EESSI Common Stack of Scientific Software using Azure HPC-on-demand
  2. Azure Functions: V2 Python Programming Model
  3. Announcing the new Ebsv5 VM sizes offering 2X remote storage performance with NVMe-Public Preview
  4. Now in Preview – Spot priority mix for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  5. Optimize and maximize cloud investment with Azure savings plan for compute
  6. General availability: Simplified disaster recovery for VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery
  7. New Regions and Managed Identity Support for Azure Container Instances with Azure Virtual Networks
  8. Azure Windows Virtual Machine Activation: new KMS DNS & new KMS IP addresses in Azure China Cloud
  9. Azure Windows Virtual Machine Activation: two new KMS IP addresses (…and why you should care)
  10. Join Microsoft and NVIDIA experts at this Microsoft GTC Session [WP41730] Watch Party
  11. Authenticating to an Azure CycleCloud Slurm cluster with Azure Active Directory
  12. Benchmarking the NC A100 v4, NCsv3, and NCas_T4_v3 series with NVIDIA Deep Learning Examples
  13. New storage optimized Azure VMs deliver higher performance for data intensive workloads
  14. Announcing Azure Service Operator in Beta
  15. How GitHub Actions handles CI/CD scale on short-running jobs with Ephemeral OS disk Reimage
  16. A quick start guide to benchmarking AI models in Azure: MLPerf Inferencing v2.0
  17. Guarantee capacity access with on-demand capacity reservations—now available
  18. Announcing Azure Container Instances’ support for Managed Identity Authenticated Image Pulls

2021 27

  1. Azure CycleCloud ‘Learning Circle’ Series for Academic and Industry Customers
  2. Autodesk VRED on Azure
  3. Microsoft announces new NDm A100 v4 Public AI Supercomputers and achieves Top10 Ranking in TOP500
  4. Performance & Scalability of HBv3 VMs with Milan-X CPUs
  5. Announcing public preview of zonal container groups on Azure Container Instances (ACI)
  6. Hierarchical Deployment of IoT Edge with ACR Connected Registry
  7. Improve cost savings with the new Azure Virtual Machine Offerings
  8. Announcing General Availability for Virtual Machine Scale Sets – Flexible orchestration mode
  9. Scheduled Synchronization of Registry Artifacts for Shipping Scenarios Using ACR Connected Registry
  10. Announcing Azure Service Operator for Kubernetes v2
  11. Azure IaaS Day: Learn skills to build a more agile, resilient infrastructure
  12. Microsoft Sessions at NVIDIA GTC 21 Fall Conference
  13. Automatic scaling with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode
  14. Simplified disaster recovery for VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery
  15. Build your RoseTTAFold protein AI prediction cluster on Azure CycleCloud
  16. Azure CycleCloud integration with Microsoft HPC Pack
  17. Azure HPC at International Supercomputing 2021
  18. How Azure FX VM Makes Ansys RedHawk-SC™ Run Faster the Less You Spend
  19. Azure HPC After Hours Social Event at ISC 2021
  20. Microsoft at Ansys Simulation World 2021
  21. Ansys RedHawk-SC™ on Azure: Hold on to Your Socks
  22. Microsoft Sessions at NVIDIA GTC
  23. Azure HPC Powers CernVM-FS Tutorial
  24. HPC Performance and Scalability Results with Azure HBv3 VMs
  25. Increase availability at scale with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode
  26. New Azure HPC and AI Collaboration Center Program
  27. Accelerated Networking on HB, HC, HBv2, HBv3 and NDv2

2020 11

  1. Azure CycleCloud 8.1 is Now Available
  2. Azure HPC Videos
  3. Azure HPC @Supercomputing '20
  4. It Was Impossible – Until Now. Computational Electromagnetic Breakthrough on Azure.
  5. Accelerating Drug Discovery with Supercomputing Scale Biomolecular Simulations on Azure
  6. Azure VMs at GTC: New Options for Workloads of Any Size
  7. A note about rhashtable kernel bug in CentOS 7.6/7.7
  8. IntelMPI 2019 on Azure HPC Clusters
  9. MVAPICH2 on Azure HPC Clusters
  10. Microsoft Sessions at NVIDIA GTC Digital
  11. Configuring InfiniBand for Ubuntu HPC and GPU VMs

2019 8

  1. Join Azure HPC at Supercomputing 2019
  2. Azure HPC VM Images
  3. Platform Updates for HPC and AI VMs on Azure
  4. Reservoir Simulation on Azure: HPC for Oil & Gas
  5. Accelerating HPC Containers on Azure
  6. Petascale Computing on Azure
  7. CentOS HPC VM Image for SR-IOV enabled Azure HPC VMs
  8. Singularity on Azure: Containers for HPC