We're excited to announce the public preview of availability set to Virtual Machine Scale Set migration for Azure Virtual Machines. This new capability enables you to move your existing VMs from avai...

Summary This guide is designed for customers with Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RIs) that will no longer be available for new purchase or renewal starting July 1, 2026 for select VM ser...

Co-authors: Jie Su, Abhinav Dua, Mukthar Ahmed, Dhruv Joshi, Dibyendu Mondal In a previous post, we shared how Azure Automated VM Recovery works to minimize virtual machine downtime through a three...

Today, we’re excited to announce the public preview of Ephemeral OS disk with full caching, a new feature designed to significantly enhance performance and reliability by utilizing local storage. Thi...

  We're excited to announce the public preview of automatic zone balance for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. This new capability helps you maintain zone-resilient workloads with zero manual inter...

Co-authors: Mukhtar Ahmed, Shekhar Agrawal, Harish Luckshetty, Vinay Nagarajan, Jie Su, Sri Harsha Kanukuntla, David Maldonado, Shardul Dabholkar. Keeping virtual machines running smoothly is essen...

Today, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of Azure’s new AMD based Virtual Machines (VMs) powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ (Turin) processors. These VMs include general-purpose (Dasv7, Dals...

In a competitive landscape, Microsoft Azure, like other major cloud service providers, must continuously balance two competing objectives: maximizing performance and improving power efficiency. By us...

Ignite 2025 highlighted a clear trend across customer and partner discussions: modern workloads—AI inference, data-intensive analytics, and globally distributed applications—require infrastructure th...