These users put their VMs at risk when they use certain Azure services such as Azure Automation, Azure Automatic Update, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Configuration Management, and others.

If your Linux machine in Azure has port 5986, 5985, or 1270 externally exposed, you need to update it as soon as possible.

Several Azure Virtual Machine (VM) management extensions use this framework to orchestrate configuration management and log collection on Linux VMs.

Microsoft this month announced a preview of the ability to log into a Linux-based VM running on its Azure public cloud service using Azure Active Directory credentials.

A platform-wide update now allows Windows and Linux VMs on Azure to reach networking throughput speeds of up to 25 Gbps, and Accelerated Networking hits GA for Windows, public preview for Linux.

Earlier today, Microsoft's developer account posted a tweet revealing that 40 percent of the virtual machines hosted on the company's Azure cloud platform are powered by Linux distros.

At ToDesktop we use Azure VMs to quickly test x86-based Windows apps. It's useful for us because Apple Silicon Macs, are slow to emulate x86 VMs, so we spin up VMs in Azure instead for testing ...

Microsoft announced Azure Active Directory management enhancements for the Azure AD Conditional Access service, as well as authentication perks for managing Azure virtual machines.

However, the actual savings depends on factors such as the customer’s usage of Azure, their geographic region and the type of VM instances they’re running. For example, Windows Server users can pay ...