Four DCv2 VM SKUs (dc1s.v2, dc2s.v2, dc4s.v2, dc8.v2) are now absent from the West US catalog after 54 days of uninterrupted availability. This marks them as likely deprecation candidates. SREs should immediately revisit capacity planning and SKU fallback strategies for West US, as these shapes can no longer be assumed available for new deployments or scaling.
Meanwhile, Canada East has restored a broad set of DCv5 and ECv5 VM SKUs, including both standard and confidential compute variants. Each SKU returns after a prior disappearance, offering more compute shapes for right-sizing, performance optimization, and cost tuning. This expansion enhances placement flexibility in Canada East, but the recent history of missing days suggests SREs should monitor for stability before relying on these SKUs for critical workloads.