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Premium Storage

Premium Storage delivers high-performance, low-latency disk support for I/O intensive workloads running on Azure Virtual Machines. You can attach several Premium Storage disks to a virtual machine (VM). With Premium Storage, your applications can have up to 32 TB of storage per VM and achieve 50,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second) per VM with extremely low latencies for read operations. Premium Storage is currently available only for storing data on disks used by Azure Virtual Machines.

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Save money and be agile

For fast computational workloads, quick development and testing, or frequent stopping and starting, when deploying Virtual Machines in Azure, you will pay down to the minute. This includes the billing for Windows, Linux, Oracle, SQL Server, and even BizTalk. You can even have the platform AutoScale based upon a schedule or CPU usage of your instances. Our infrastructure and software billing model meets your needs, not ours!

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That's why Windows Azure Virtual Machines was such a good solution for us. We could develop and test using IaaS instead of investing in servers at our hosting providers. The time savings throughout the process was enormous.

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Load-balancing across multiple instances is included and easy to configure. You can create the load-balancer, add security ACLs to control access and define specific probes to help monitor application health, all within the easy-to-use portal experience.

New G-Series VMs

You can now deploy the G-series VMs to meet the needs of your workload. With more memory and more local Solid State Drive (SSD) storage than any current VM size in the public cloud, the G-series VMs feature extraordinary performance for your most demanding applications.

True HPC capabilities in the cloud, on demand

The performance and scalability of a world-class supercomputing center is now available to everyone, on demand in the cloud. Run your HPC applications using high performance A8 and A9 compute instances on Azure, and take advantage of a backend network with MPI latency under 3 microseconds and non-blocking 32 Gbps throughput. This backend network includes remote direct memory access (RDMA) technology that enables parallel applications to scale to thousands of cores. Azure provides you with high memory and HPC-class CPU’s to help you get results fast. Scale up and down based upon what you need and pay only for what you use to reduce costs.

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Create VMs from images by Microsoft, partners, and the community

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  • Barracuda Web Application Firewall (WAF) 7.8 Barracuda Networks Inc
  • Mono as a Service (Ubuntu 12.04) Aegis
Discover more Virtual Machines images

Create your first Azure Virtual Machine

Creating a Virtual Machine is easy and takes only minutes. Provide the public facing DNS name for the Virtual Machine, select from our platform supplied list of VM images, enter a user name, password, and the region.

Create a new Virtual Machine using the Command Line

You can create a Virtual Machine using PowerShell:

New-AzureQuickVM -Windows -AdminUsername myAdminUserName -ServiceName
myServiceName -InstanceSize Small -Name myWindowsVM -Password
myuserpassword01! -Location 'West US' -ImageName
a699494373c04fc0bc8f2bb1389d6106__Windows-Server-2012-Datacenter-201310.01-e
n.us-127GB.vhd

Alternatively, you can create a new Ubuntu Virtual Machine using our cross-platform command line interface for Windows, Mac or Linux:

~$ node azure vm create myLinuxVM
b39f27a8b8c64d52b05eac6a62ebad85__Ubuntu-12_04_2-LTS-amd64-server-20130225-e
n-us-30GB myUserName myuserpassword01! -l "West US"

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