Windows Azure: New Virtual Machine, Active Directory, Multi-Factor Auth, Storage, Web Site and Spending Limit Improvements

This week we released some great updates to Windows Azure.  These new capabilities include:
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 All of these improvements are now available to use immediately.  Below are more details about them.
Compute: New 2-CPU Core 14 GB RAM instance This week we released a new memory-intensive instance for Windows Azure. This new instance, called A5, has two CPU cores a ...