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Open new frontiers of innovation across your cloud and hybrid workloads with joint solutions from AMD and Azure.

    Find the right Azure VMs for your needs and budget with the virtual machine selector

    Get powerful, cost-effective solutions for a wide range of workloads

    For everything from accelerating office productivity apps to fast-tracking world-changing scientific research, Azure Virtual Machines featuring AMD EPYC™ processors provide powerful, cost-effective solutions for a wide range of workloads, including:

    • General-purpose enterprise-class workloads
    • Database and big data applications
    • Desktop virtualization workstations
    • High-performance computing (HPC)
    • Confidential computing
    • Hybrid cloud scenarios

      AMD-powered Azure Virtual Machines

      Meet almost any performance and flexibility challenge with AMD EPYC™ CPU- and AMD Radeon Instinct™ GPU-based virtual machines (VMs).

      And migrate even your open-source workloads with confidence: AMD works with the open-source community and software vendors to help ensure that apps and enabling software work exceptionally well with AMD EPYC™ processors and to provide a broad range of open tools and libraries.

      organization-wide support plan
      Target workload Use case Azure VM type Key VM specs AMD Processors AMD GPU

      General purpose

      Web servers
      Dev/Test
      Enterprise-grade apps

      Da-series

      4 GB of RAM per vCPU

      Refer to the documentation

      Not available

      Memory intensive

      Relational databases
      In-memory analytics
      Business-critical apps

      Ea-series

      8 GB of RAM per vCPU

      Refer to the documentation

      Not available

      High-performance computing (HPC)

      Automotive: Crash test and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations
      Weather modeling
      Oil and gas: Seismic exploration

      HBv3
      HBv2
      HB

      Up to 120 AMD EPYC™ 7003-series CPU cores, 448 GB of RAM per VM. Scales up to 80,000 CPUs.

      3rd Gen AMD EPYC™

      Not available

      Confidential computing

      Data protected in use
      VM-level isolation

      DCa-series
      ECa-series

      AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging
      Full-disk encryption with Secure Key Release
      Virtual TPM

      3rd Gen AMD EPYC™

      Not available

      Visualization

      Virtual desktops
      Workstation graphics
      Rendering

      NVv4

      GPU partitioning in 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, and 1 GPU increments.

      2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs

      AMD Radeon Instinct MI25™

      Storage optimized

      NoSQL databases
      Big Data/Cloud-scale analytics
      Large transactional databases
      Data warehousing

      L-series

      8 GB of RAM per vCPU and local NVMe storage

      Refer to the documentation

      Not available

      AMD-powered Azure Virtual Machines for your workloads

      • Compelling price-performance for general purpose and memory-intensive workloads

        Azure Das v5 and Dav4 series VMs featuring AMD EPYC™ processors

        Up to 96 vCPUs, 384 GBs of RAM, and 2,400 GBs of SSD-based storage

        Example use cases: Enterprise grade apps, databases, web servers, dev/test

        Azure Eas v5 and Eav4 series VMs featuring AMD EPYC™ processors

        Up to 96 vCPUs, 672 GBs of RAM, and 2,400 GBs of SSD-based storage

        Example use cases: Large in-memory business critical workloads like analytics, business critical apps, and relational databases such as SQL Server

        Accelerate storage-intensive workloads

        Azure Lasv3 series VMs featuring AMD 3rd Generation EPYC™ 7763v processor

        Up to 19.2TB NVMe storage and Premium SSD support for high throughput, low latency, and large local disk storage for database apps

        Example use cases: NoSQL databases, big data analytics, large transactional databases, and data warehousing

        Additional resources

        New AMD-based general purpose and memory optimized Azure Virtual Machines now available.

        New storage optimized Azure VMs deliver higher performance for data intensive workloads.

        Azure Data Explorer now supports AMD based VMs.

      • Modern desktop experience on the cloud

        Get affordable, high-performing modern desktop experiences from the cloud with Azure NVv4 instance VMs—ideal for financial analysis, architecture, engineering, and design applications. Traditional CPU-only VMs often struggle to keep up with these apps, frustrating users and reducing productivity, but until now, deploying GPU-accelerated, on-premises virtual environments has been too costly.

        Powered by AMD Radeon Instinct™ GPUs and the industry’s first SR-IOV-based fractional GPU virtualization architecture, NVv4 instances offer a choice of four configurable options to deliver the right amount of GPU capability at the right price for any enterprise workload.

        NVv4 instances provide a zero-cost license GPU partitioning on discrete GPUs in Azure.

        Learn more about GPU partitioning on Azure NVv4 instances:

        NVv4 datasheet

        GPU virtualized architecture with the MxGPU whitepaper

        NVv4 pricing

      • Provide full-power workstation experiences on the cloud

        Ideal for designers, architects, engineers, and other professionals who use resource- and performance-intensive applications, NVv4-based Azure virtual desktops bring the full power of traditional workstations into the cloud, regardless of the end-point device used or if working onsite or remotely.

        Designed with major pro-CAD architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) and M&E applications, Azure NVv4 instances are ISV-certified to ensure optimal performance and reliability. Zero-cost-license GPU partitioning provides a discrete GPU experience even when fractional GPU options are deployed, making it possible to balance performance, mobility, and cost.

        For more information on the benefits of NVv4 for industries that requires workstation-class experiences, view the latest solution briefs:

        NVv4 in design and manufacturing

        NVv4 in AEC

        NVv4 in education

        NVv4 in finance

      • Azure and AMD: Leading HPC in the cloud with Azure HBv2

        To accelerate scientific and commercial research, discovery, and innovation, Azure and AMD have collaborated to offer extensive on-demand supercomputing resources with highly scalable HPC-optimized VMs.

        Azure HBv3 VMs are designed to deliver leadership-class performance, message-passing interface (MPI) scalability, and cost efficiency for a variety of real-world HPC workloads such as CFD, finite element analysis, computational geoscience, rendering, weather simulation, financial risk analysis, and RTL simulation.

        Learn more about Azure HBv3:

        Azure HBv3 GA announcement

        Performance and scalability results

        For a wide range of HPC applications including computational fluid dynamics and weather simulation, Azure HBv2 VMs feature 2nd generation AMD EPYC™ processors, providing 45-50 percent more memory bandwidth than comparable x86 alternatives. HBv2 VMs also feature the cloud’s first 200 Gbps HDR InfiniBand from Mellanox for ultra-low latency and accelerated message transfer.

        Learn more about Azure HBv2:

        Benchmarking results: Weather research and forecasting (WRF) in Azure

        GitHub: Get up and running with an Azure HPC cluster

        Azure HPC Cache: Run flexible, file-based workloads in Azure

        Blog: HBv2 eclipses 80,000 core milestone

        ServetheHome: Microsoft Azure HBv2 HPC Features AMD EPYC™ 7002 and Mellanox Report

      • Azure DCasv5 and ECasv5 series VMs allow you to move your existing workloads to Azure and make them confidential without changing any code. With the latest advancement in AMD SEV technologies called Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP), the contents of entire VMs are opaque to cloud administrators for secure and isolated computation. The runtime state of these VMs is fully encrypted, protecting your data even when it's in use. The keys used for this RAM encryption are generated inside the CPU and never leave it.

        Learn more about the Azure DCasv5 and ECasv5 series:

        Azure DCasV5 and ECasv5 preview announcement

      • AMD and Azure: Hybrid cloud partnership

        Modernize aging server and storage infrastructure, consolidate virtualized workloads, and gain cloud efficiencies on-premises. AMD and Azure hyperconverged solutions bring together software-defined compute, storage, and networking on industry-standard x86 servers and components. Validated hardware options make it possible for enterprises to gain the benefits of Azure Stack HCI solutions, powered by the performance of AMD EPYC™ processors, from within their own, purpose-built datacenters.

      • Azure – AMD cloud visualization solutions

        Find extensively validated NVv4 VM remote protocol and infrastructure management solutions for Windows Remote Desktop (RDP) 10, Teradici PCoIP, and HDX 3D Pro, and graphics API support for DirectX 9-12, OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.1:

        Workspot Desktop Cloud: VDI on Azure

        Windows Virtual Desktop – provision a host pool

        Citrix Virtual Desktops Essentials

        Azure – AMD HPC solutions

        Fully provision your HPC environment, including end-user applications, workload managers, job schedulers, and storage software. Visit HPC on Azure for an implementation checklist, or check out these solutions:

        Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+ for manufacturing

        ANSYS Cloud

        BeeGFS high-performance distributed, parallel file system

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