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Disconnected Operations for Azure Local: More Local, Less Azure Updated: August 20, 2026 Disconnected operations for Azure Local allows customers to deploy Azure Local clusters without a connection...more Most Azure Reservation Exchanges End in 2027  August 7, 2026 Most key Azure reservations purchased after Feb. 2027 can no longer be exchanged once purchased....more How to Apply Azure Reservations and Savings Plans Effectively to Compute Workloads Updated: April 10, 2026 Azure compute is typically the single largest cost category of resources that an organization will...more Evaluating Digital Sovereignty Options   March 16, 2026 Enterprises are increasingly using the public cloud for mission-critical and data-sensitive workloads. But as customers...more VMware Rapid Migration Plan Loses Incentives: Some Benefits for Commitment Remain Updated: February 18, 2026 Note: Following a further extension of the deadline for the VMware Rapid Migration Plan to...more Azure Local: Vision Still Ahead of the Product December 5, 2025 Azure Local (formerly known as Azure Stack HCI) is Microsoft’s primary server host OS for...more Azure Local to Gain Air-Gap Support November 10, 2025 Several new features have been added to the Azure Local Roadmap, including the general availability...more How to Track Azure Hybrid Benefit Use Rights for Windows Server Updated: September 1, 2025 Customers are responsible for ensuring they have the proper licenses to keep their Azure Hybrid...more Azure Compute Fleet: Optimize the Costs of Large-Scale VM Deployments Updated: August 20, 2025 Azure Compute Fleet can expedite the deployment and maintenance of a large number of Azure...more New Generation of Storage Azure VMs Enable Larger Workloads  Updated: July 20, 2025 A new generation of storage-optimized Azure VMs offers higher performance at a lower storage cost....more Migrating from VMware? Look Before You Leap Updated: June 28, 2025 Microsoft has several alternatives to VMware for on-premises server virtualization. Hyper-V is mature and runs...more Does Azure Linux Have a Broader Future? Updated: June 3, 2025 Ever since it was first introduced under the name Mariner, Azure Linux’s sole official purpose...more Azure Linux 3.0: What’s New Updated: June 3, 2025 Latest version of Microsoft’s host OS for Azure Kubernetes Service includes updated dependencies. Kubernetes is...more How to Plan for Azure VM Retirement March 3, 2025 New Azure VM series are both an opportunity to save money and a signal that...more Optimizing VM Costs with Scaling Updated: March 1, 2025 Matching resource consumption to actual demand is an important part of controlling Azure VM costs....more Azure Disk Types at a Glance Updated: February 10, 2025 Chart summarizes the various options for Azure Managed Disks.

  Licensing Reference Azure Local Azure Local, formerly known as Azure Stack HCI, is a Microsoft host OS for hyper-converged...more   Product Reference Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft’s flagship Kubernetes (often abbreviated as “K8s”) offering, provides orchestration (deployment,...more   Product Reference Container Services in Azure In addition to the company’s flagship Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft offers services that exist...more   Product Reference Azure Container Storage Azure Container Storage (ACS) is a volume management and provisioning service for deploying persistent storage...more   Product Reference Azure Local Azure Local, formerly known as Azure Stack HCI, is Microsoft’s primary server host OS for...more   Product Reference Kubernetes Fleet Manager Kubernetes Fleet Manager is an Azure-hosted service for managing numerous Kubernetes clusters, including Azure Kubernetes...more   Product Reference Service Fabric Service Fabric is a microservice orchestration platform that can enable highly scalable, distributed, reliable solutions....more   Product Reference Azure VMware Solution Azure VMware Solution (AVS) offers virtualization, storage, and networking for managed VMs using VMware software...more   Product Reference Backup Azure Backup is a service that uses Azure Storage to back up VMs, databases, files...more   Product Reference Azure Compute Fleet Azure Compute Fleet is a service for deploying Azure VMs at scale within an Azure...more   Product Reference Batch Azure Batch allows customers to distribute workloads over groups of VMs to leverage Azure’s scalability...more   Product Reference Azure Dedicated Host Azure Dedicated Host enables customers to rent Azure VM host servers that are dedicated to their...more   Product Reference Managed Disks Managed Disks (also known as Azure Managed Disks) is an offering in the Azure Storage...more   Product Reference Azure Stack Hub Azure Stack Hub offers functionality of Microsoft-hosted Azure for customer on-premises and third-party hosted deployments.   Product Reference Blockchain Azure Blockchain (retired service) included several components that collectively supported building and running consortium and...more   Product Reference Cloud Services Azure Cloud Services provides customers with Windows Server VM instances using a PaaS model.

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