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2025 (12)

November (4)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Trusted Launch is now supported for Arm64 Marketplace Images

Azure Updates

2025-11-20

Azure Marketplace now offers Arm64 images that support Trusted Launch, enabling customers to run Arm64 virtual machines with Trusted Launch security features. This combines Arm64 cost and performance efficiencies with the integrity and protection benefits of Trusted Launch.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: NVv6 Virtual Machines

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announced the public preview of NCv6/NC Series virtual machines featuring Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs to provide hardware acceleration for a wide array of workloads.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Scheduled Actions

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Scheduled Actions is now generally available in Azure. It enables periodic, large-scale lifecycle management of virtual machines with built-in handling for subscription throttling and automatic retries to reduce operational overhead.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Monitor unified onboarding experience for AKS and VMs

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Monitor now provides a unified, single-click onboarding experience for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and virtual machines (VMs), now generally available. The new experience simplifies setup by automatically deploying the latest Azure Monitor capabilities.

October (5)

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: VM vCore customization features disabling simultaneous multi-threading (SMT/HT) and constrained cores

Azure Updates

2025-10-22

Azure announced a public preview of VM vCore customization that gives customers greater control over virtual CPU configuration. The preview introduces two capabilities: disabling simultaneous multithreading (SMT/Hyper‑Threading) on vCPUs, and constraining the number of cores exposed to the guest. These options help optimize single‑threaded workload performance, reduce license costs by limiting visible cores, and improve CPU isolation and predictable performance. The features are available in public preview and can be configured through Azure management interfaces.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Sharing Capacity Reservation Groups

Azure Updates

2025-10-20

Azure announced Public Preview support for sharing Capacity Reservation Groups (CRGs) with subscriptions, allowing CRGs to be used beyond the subscription where they were created. Previously, VMs could only be deployed into a CRG within the same subscription.

azure: Retirement: The F, Fs, Fsv2, Lsv2, G, Gs, Av2, Amv2, and B series VMs are retiring in 2028

Azure Updates

2025-10-15

Microsoft Azure will retire the F, Fs, Fsv2, Lsv2, G, Gs, Av2, Amv2, and B series virtual machines on November 15, 2028. After that date these VM series cannot be used or purchased.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Site Recovery support for Ultra Disks

Azure Updates

2025-10-14

Azure Site Recovery is now generally available for Virtual Machines using Ultra Disks, enabling cross-region replication, failover, and failback to improve disaster recovery for high‑performance workloads with minimal impact.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Integrated HSM

Azure Updates

2025-10-13

Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Integrated HSM, a hardware security module (HSM) cache and crypto accelerator for virtual machines, designed to enhance the security and performance of cryptographic operations for customers with heavy crypto workloads.

September (3)

azure: Retirement: NVv4-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on September 30, 2026

Azure Updates

2025-09-30

Microsoft Azure will retire the NVv4-series virtual machines (listed SKUs) on September 30, 2026.

azure: Retirement: NVv3-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on September 30,2026

Azure Updates

2025-09-23

Microsoft will retire specific NVv3-series Azure virtual machines (Standard_NV12s_v3, Standard_NV12hs_v3, Standard_NV24s_v3, Standard_NV24ms_v3, Standard_NV32ms_v3, Standard_NV48s_v3) on September 30, 2026. Customers must plan and migrate affected workloads before that date to avoid disruption.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure HBv5-series VMs

Azure Updates

2025-09-16

Azure HBv5-series VMs are now available in Public Preview in the Azure South Central US region and are optimized for memory-bandwidth-intensive HPC workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, automotive and aerospace simulations, and weather modeling.