Bunch of new updates to Windows Azure

Here is a summary from Scott Gu's article found here regarding the most recent updates:

• Compute: New 2-CPU Core 14 GB RAM instance option

• Virtual Machines: Support for Oracle Software Images, Management Operations on Stopped VMs

• Active Directory: Richer Directory Management and General Availability of Multi-Factor Authentication Support

• Spending Limit: Reset your Spending Limit, Virtual Machines are no longer deleted if it is hit

• Storage: New Storage Client Library 2.1 Released

• Web Sites: IP and Domain Restriction Now Supported

The new virtual machine instance released is called A5 shown here (from the previous link):

Here are some more details of the virtual machines copied from here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn197896.aspx












Only one  active directory which cannot be deleted has changed. Now you can have multiple active directories which contributes to flexibility (with multiple tenants).