Generally Available: Azure Firewall resource specific log tables get Azure Monitor Basic plan support

Generally Available: Instance Mix for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
We are excited to announce the general availability of instance mix, a new feature designed to optimize your Virtual Machine Scale Set deployments. Instance mix allows you to specify multiple VM sizes within a single Virtual Machine Scale Set, providing greater flexibility and cost efficiency. To further optimize deployments, instance mix allows you to specify an allocation strategy to optimize for price or capacity.

Key Features

• Flexible VM Combinations: Mix and match various VM sizes within a single VMSS to better align with your workload requirements.
• Capacity-informed deployments: Optimize for the available capacity in Azure regions/zones with capacity. Optimized for more confidence that you’ll get the capacity requested. For cost-sensitive customers who want to still utilize capacity signals, the lowest. Price allocation strategy takes both factors into account
• Simplified Management: Manage a diverse set of VMs in a single scale set, reducing the complexity of handling multiple scale sets.
• Easily scale with a mix of VM offerings: When using Spot Priority Mix, customers can deploy a heterogeneous mix of VM sizes of both Spot and On-Demand pricing in their scale sets.
• Attain Capacity: By utilizing a diversified mix of VM sizes, customers can tap into a greater pool of capacity, increasing their ability to get the capacity needed.

Generally Available: Announcing the Next generation Azure Data Box Devices
Today, we’re excited to announce the General Availability of Azure Data Box 120 and Azure Data Box 525, our next-generation compact, NVMe-based Data Box devices. These devices are currently available for customers to order in the US, US Gov, Canada, EU and the UK Azure regions, with broader availability coming soon. Since the preview announcement at Ignite '24, we have successfully ingested petabytes of data, encompassing multiple orders serving customers across various industry verticals.
Customers have expressed delight over the reliability and efficiency of the new devices with up to 10x improvement in data transfer rates, highlighting them as a valuable and essential asset for large-scale data migration projects. These new device offerings reflect insights gained from working with our customers over the years and understanding their evolving data transfer needs. Click here to know more about what's new and how our customers are utilizing these new Data Box devices across various industries.
Order your device today!Azure Data Box provides customers with one of the most cost-effective solutions for data migration, offering competitive pricing with the lowest cost per TB among offline data transfer solutions. You can learn more about the pricing across various regions by visiting our pricing page. You can use the Azure portal to select the requisite SKU suitable for your migration needs and place the order. For feedback and questions, write to us at DataBoxPM@microsoft.com.

Generally Available: Cross-Region Data Transfer Capability in Azure Data Box Devices
We are pleased to announce the general availability of cross-region data transfer for all region pairs using Azure Data Box. Customers can now select any source location and directly upload data to any Azure destination region, offering flexibility and convenience for distributed data storage needs. This data transfer is facilitated without the Data Box device being shipped across commerce boundaries.

For instance, data stored on-premises in Japan can be directly uploaded to an Azure region in the EU. The Data Box device is transported to an Azure data center within Japan, and the data transfer occurs over the Azure network at no additional cost, ensuring the Data Box device remains within the source country, Japan. This capability is particularly beneficial for large, distributed organizations with Azure workloads in multiple regions. We look forward to seeing how this new feature enhances your data management strategies.

Generally Available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in Spain Central

Now available in Spain Central region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with low sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads.
Azure Ultra Disk Storage offers high throughput, high IOPS, and consistent low latency disk storage for Azure virtual machines (VMs). Ultra Disk is suited for data-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, top-tier databases, and transaction-heavy workloads.

Generally Available: Azure Firewall resource specific log tables get Azure Monitor Basic plan support

All resource specific log tables for Azure Firewall now support the Basic log plan which can reduce your logging costs by 80%. However, Policy Analytics and Security Copilot integrations will not work with the Basic log plan.

Learn more:

• About this new logging plan.
• About new querying experience.