Linux Virtual Machines

Provision virtual machines for Ubuntu, Red Hat, and more.

Overview

Azure virtual machines are one of several types of on-demand, scalable computing resources that Azure offers. Typically, you choose a virtual machine when you need more control over the computing environment than the other choices offer. This article gives you information about what you should consider before you create a virtual machine, how you create it, and how you manage it.

Key Resources

Homepage: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/
Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/virtual-machines/
SLA: https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/virtual-machines/
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News

Date News
5/20/2024
Dan Garfield is the Co-founder of Codefresh, a CI/CD platform powered by GitOps and Argo now acquired by Octopus Deploy. As the VP Open Source and Argo Maintainer, he works primarily on Argo CD...
5/19/2024
  Microsoft Build 2024 starts May 21st. Register now to attend virtually.   Microsoft Build, the annual conference where developers can dive deep into the latest Microsoft technologies, kicks...
5/16/2024
In this blog post, we dive into the realms of observability and monitoring, taking advantage of the latest advancements in Azure's Linux App Service. If you've been following App Service updates,...
5/15/2024
Azure CycleCloud is an enterprise-friendly tool for orchestrating and managing High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments on Azure. With CycleCloud, users can provision infrastructure for HPC...
5/15/2024
This article will provide you with an all-inclusive update around all App Service TLS related features. In the past year, we have announced a couple of updates in this area, and to keep things...
5/14/2024
  At Microsoft, we know Python is a developer's best friend, so in this blog we’re going to not only review what makes it such a versatile tool for coders, but also explore the treasure trove of...
4/29/2024
Azure is excited to announce that hibernation support has been extended to the following General Purpose VM sizes up to 64GB RAM-: Esv5-series  Edsv5-series  Easv5-series  Eadsv5-series    In...
4/24/2024
At KubeCon Europe 2024, we showed how Azure and Kubernetes can help you build and deploy intelligent applications. Even if you couldn’t visit us at the Microsoft booth or attend the conference...
4/11/2024
The hosts file, commonly known as etc\hosts, functions as a text-based tool employed by operating systems like Windows and Linux, to establish associations between IP addresses and host names or...
4/10/2024
Extensible key management (EKM) using Azure Key Vault in SQL Server on Linux is now generally available from SQL Server 2022 CU12 onwards.
3/25/2024
Azure App Service is pleased to announce general availability of the "Automatic Scaling" feature. We received important feedback about the Automatic Scaling feature during the preview phase and...
3/21/2024
Microsoft and Red Hat commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic ImpactTM (TEI) study of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure, based on interviews with customers who have migrated...
3/18/2024
You can now deploy AKS clusters in dual stack mode which now enables resource connection through IPv4 or IPv6.
3/18/2024
  We're excited to announce that in April, Azure will be offering customers the ability to optimize GPU compute costs by enabling hibernation on Virtual Machines (VMs). With this feature, users...
3/18/2024
Richard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET team at Microsoft. He’s been with Microsoft since 2000, and working on .NET since 2003! Currently, he’s working on runtime features,...
3/13/2024
SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) is a highly configurable open-source workload manager used in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Job accounting is a crucial...
3/10/2024
Introduction:   JavaScript, the powerhouse behind many applications, sometimes faces limitations when it comes to memory in a Node.js environment.  Today, let's dive into a common challenge...
3/6/2024
Develop functions using Node.js 20 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans on Linux and Windows.
2/29/2024
CycleCloud 8.6: What's New and How to Get Started Learn about the latest features and enhancements of CycleCloud, the leading cloud HPC orchestration platform. CycleCloud is a powerful tool that...
2/28/2024
You can now migrate nodes from one Linux OS to another without having to create new nodes.