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 ...

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the latest Azure Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 General Purpose and Memory Optimized Virtual Machines (VMs) powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® 6 processor...

In collaboration with: Luis Dieguez, Principal Software Engineering Manager, Azure Container Registry Akash Singhal, Senior Software Engineer, Azure Container Registry Kiran Challa, Senior Softwar...

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 Starting July 1, 2026, Azure will no longer offer new purchases or renewals of certain Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances (RIs) for select VM series. This change affects only the abil...

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...