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2026 (4)

September (3)

azure: Retirement: Dv3, Dsv3, Ev3, and Esv3 Azure VMs

Azure Updates

2026-09-30

Microsoft announced retirement of the Dv3, Dsv3, Ev3, and Esv3 Azure VM series in public cloud regions. These VM families will reach end-of-life on November 15, 2029.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Storage optimized Lasv5 and Laosv5 Azure VM series

Azure Updates

2026-09-29

Azure has generally available Lasv5 and Laosv5 storage optimized VM series, based on 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin). The series offers 2–160 vCPUs, 8 GiB memory per vCPU, and 720 GB of local NVMe disk per vCPU.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Ephemeral OS Disk with full caching for VM/VMSS

Azure Updates

2026-09-09

Azure Ephemeral OS Disk with full caching is now generally available for new virtual machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets. It caches the full OS image on local VM storage so reads no longer go to remote storage after caching completes.

August (1)

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure 248 and 372 vCPU sizes for D/E v7 series VMs

Azure Updates

2026-08-25

Azure has generally available 248- and 372-vCPU D/E v7 VM sizes in the Dlsv7, Dsv7, Elsv7, and Esv7 families, powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors. Microsoft says these sizes provide up to 20% better compute performance than prior Intel-based v6 VMs.