Updated: July 13, 2020 (December 13, 2010)

Azure Futures Roadmap

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Features and enhancements to the Windows Azure platform will arrive at different times over the next year, and some will become available as free Community Technology Previews (CTPs) or fee-based betas before their final releases.

	End of 2010	First half of 2011	Second half of 2011
Windows Azure
Virtual machine (VM) roles: Windows Server 2008 R2 support	Beta	Final*
VM roles: Windows Server 2003, 2008 SP2 support			Final
VM roles: Build VM role images in the cloud			Final
Server Application Virtualization	CTP		Final
Extra Small compute instance	Beta	Final*
Windows Azure Connect (code-named Sydney)	CTP	Final
Content delivery network (CDN) SSL delivery			Final
Improved global CDN connectivity			Final
CDN dynamic

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