We’re excited to announce the public preview of Automatic Zone Placement for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. This new capability lets Azure select availability zones for your scale set based on SKU...

Today, we're excited to announce the GA of Ephemeral OS disk with full caching, designed to significantly enhance performance and reliability by utilizing local storage. This feature is ideal for AI ...

Today, we are announcing General Availability of two new capabilities: Disable Simultaneous Multithreading/Hyper-Threading (SMT/HT) and Configurable Constrained Cores. These features give customers c...

Emerging Technology Preview We are delighted to share innovation in the world of AI. At Build, we demonstrated several innovations that showcase where Azure Container Instances (ACI) is heading and...

We’re excited to announce the preview of the new Azure Lasv5 and Laosv5 Local Storage Optimized Virtual Machines (VMs) powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Turin) processors. Lasv5-series is desi...

We’re excited to announce Guest RDMA (Preview) in Azure, beginning today in our UK South region, bringing high-throughput, ultra-low latency networking directly into guest virtual machines anywhere w...

Automatic OS Image Upgrades for Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) using Flexible Orchestration Mode are now in public preview, helping you keep scale set instances current with less manual effort. ...

Today we are excited to release general availability for Azure Integrated HSM for AMD v7 Virtual Machines. Azure Integrated HSM is a hardware security module (HSM) cache and crypto offload designed t...

Starting May 7th, 2026, the new Esv7, Dsv7, and Dlsv7 virtual machines are generally available — and underneath them is a fundamentally new generation of Azure Boost. Not an incremental refresh. A pl...

This new capability enables you to move your existing regional (nonzonal) VMs and VMSS Flex deployments into specific availability zones while preserving the VM names, data disks, and other stateful ...