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Hibernate Azure VM
Why doesn't Azure support/have a hibernation state for VMs? AWS EC2 instances have supported it for years. Is this feature on the roadmap? I'd be very happy to hear that Azure is working on supportin...
Yo, hibernation is in preview now! Just today did they add the "Hibernate" option in the portal, and though I could find no news articles on the same, if you go into your Subscription's Preview feature's page, you can find the Hibernation feature, and reach the docs from there.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/hibernate-resume
The VM sizes currently supporting it aren't too crazy either, nor do they need to be reserved or dedicated machines. The FAQs say there's no capacity assurance when unhibernating as of now though, whatever that means... But other than that, this is insane! Truly a game-changer! I know there's other reasons they're pushing on to this cloud PC agenda, but regardless, thank you so so so much, the Azure devs! Love you lots! *kisses.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/hibernate-resume
The VM sizes currently supporting it aren't too crazy either, nor do they need to be reserved or dedicated machines. The FAQs say there's no capacity assurance when unhibernating as of now though, whatever that means... But other than that, this is insane! Truly a game-changer! I know there's other reasons they're pushing on to this cloud PC agenda, but regardless, thank you so so so much, the Azure devs! Love you lots! *kisses.