Virtual Machines
Provision Windows and Linux VMs in seconds.
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. An Azure virtual machine gives you the flexibility of virtualization without having to buy and maintain the physical hardware that runs it. However, you still need to maintain the virtual machine by performing tasks, such as configuring, patching, and installing the software that runs on it.
Key Resources
| Homepage: | https://azure.microsoft.com/services/virtual-machines/ |
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| Pricing: | https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/virtual-machines/ |
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News
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| 1/16/2026 |
Table of Contents
Introduction
Why PostgreSQL on Azure NetApp Files?
Performance That Scales
Azure NetApp Files Service Levels
The Problem: Manual Deployment Complexity
What Teams Face Today
The...
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| 1/7/2026 |
Overview of Siemens NX
Siemens NX is a next-generation integrated CAD/CAM/CAE platform used by aerospace, automotive, industrial machinery, energy, medical, robotics, and defense...
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| 12/11/2025 |
What’s new — Managed Prometheus now supports VMs & VMSS
Today we are excited to announce the private preview of Azure Managed Prometheus support for virtual machines (VM) and virtual machine...
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| 12/5/2025 |
SRE teams strive for proactive operations, catching issues before they impact customers and reducing the chaos of incident response. While perfection may be elusive, the real goal is minimizing...
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| 11/24/2025 |
As enterprises accelerate adoption of physical AI (AI models interacting with real-world physics), digital twins (virtual replicas of physical systems), LLM inference (running language models for...
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| 11/24/2025 |
Announcing Azure Bastion now supports Microsoft Entra ID
authentication for RDP connections to Windows VMs directly in the portal. This update
brings two key benefits for RDP users connecting to...
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| 11/20/2025 |
Announcing that
Trusted Launch supported Arm64 Images are now available in the Azure
Marketplace. You can now get the dual benefit of cost and performance efficiencies
of Arm64 in addition to the...
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| 11/20/2025 |
At Microsoft Ignite 2025 in San Francisco, Microsoft and Red Hat are unveiling a major milestone in cloud security: the general availability of Confidential Containers on Azure Red Hat OpenShift...
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| 11/19/2025 |
We are pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of ND GB300 v6 virtual machines, delivering the next leap in AI infrastructure. On 10/09, we shared the delivery of the first at-scale...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Announcing Managed Instance on Azure App Service, now in Public Preview! This new capability makes it easy to move web apps to the cloud with minimal configuration—no code rewrites required....
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| 11/18/2025 |
We are announcing the public preview of NCv6 RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
Server Edition Virtual Machines, as the next enhancement of NC Series VMs
available on Azure.
Nvidia RTC PRO 6000 BSE GPUs are...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Running
containerized workloads in shared environments can raise concerns around
security and workload isolation. To address this, AKS now supports pod
sandboxing, enabling customers to run...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Now you can deploy general purpose and memory-optimized v6-series Azure Virtual Machines with local NVMe storage in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. The v6 series is available with...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Software is evolving faster than ever, and organizations now operate across multiple generations of application architectures at once: AI apps and agents, cloud-native microservices, modernized...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Schedule Actions gives the ability to manage the lifecycle of VMs at high scale on a periodic basis. Subscription throttling and retries due to transient errors are handled automatically to...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Announcing the public preview of the new Azure Ebsv6 VM series, powered by 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® processors. The Ebsv6 and Ebdsv6 VMs deliver up to and industry leading 800,000 IOPS and 14...
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| 11/18/2025 |
OpenTelemetry based visualizations in Azure Monitor are in public preview, along with an enhanced, unified monitoring experience for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc Servers. This release...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Azure Monitor now offers a unified, single-click onboarding experience for both Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and virtual machines (VMs). This new experience simplifies setup by...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Azure SRE Agent offers intelligent and context aware automation for IT operations. Enhanced by customer feedback from our preview, the SRE Agent has evolved into an extensible platform to...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Today at Microsoft Ignite 2025, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift reaches General Availability (GA), unlocking a unified platform where enterprise IT teams can run...
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