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Cloud Changelog
Virtual Machines changelog
49 announcements since January 2025 · 21 GA · 14 previews · 12 deprecations
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October 20261
September 20268
Eight NVv4 VM sizes retired September 30, 2026; remaining VMs deallocated and out of SLADeprecation
Retirement on November 15, 2029; Reserved Instances unavailable since July 1, 2026Deprecation
Storage optimized VMs on 5th Gen AMD EPYC, 2-160 vCPUs, up to 138TB local NVMeGA
Azure selects availability zones by SKU availability and capacity, with configurable spread limitsPreview
Adds instantAccessState property for VMs with Premium v2 or Ultra data disksGA
Memory-optimized VMs on 6th Gen Intel Xeon for SAP and other memory-intensive workloadsPreview
Caches complete OS image on local storage for new VMs and scale sets, up to 10x I/OGA