Networking

Announcing General Availability of Instance Metadata Service in Global Azure Regions

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

We are excited to announce the general Availability of Azure Instance Metadata Service in all Global Azure regions. Azure Instance Metadata Service is a RESTful endpoint that allows virtual machines instances to get information regarding its compute, network and upcoming maintenance events.

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Senior Program Manager, Azure Compute

Availability of migration of ExpressRoute for Classic to Resource Manager IaaS Migration

Monday, April 10, 2017

Today, we are pleased to announce that customers using ExpressRoute can also migrate their Virtual Networks (including all the VMs in the VNET) to Azure Resource Manager without downtime. The instructions on how to do this can be found at Migrate ExpressRoute circuits and associated virtual networks from the classic to the Resource Manager deployment model.

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Program Manager, Azure Compute