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General Purpose
For websites, small-to-medium databases and other everyday applications.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Price | Low Priority pay as you go |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0 | 1 | 1 GB | 20 GB | $- | N/A |
| A1 | 1 | 2 GB | 225 GB | $- | $- |
| A2 | 2 | 4 GB | 490 GB | $- | $- |
| A3 | 4 | 7 GB | 1,000 GB | $- | $- |
| A4 | 8 | 14 GB | 2,040 GB | $- | $- |
The latest generation of A-Series, Av2 Standard, has similar CPU performance and faster disk. Suitable for development workloads, build servers, code repositories, low-traffic websites and web applications, Av2 Standard also works for micro services, early product experiments and small databases.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Price | Low Priority pay as you go |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1v2 | 1 | 2 GB | 10 GB | $- | $- |
| A2v2 | 2 | 4 GB | 20 GB | $- | $- |
| A4v2 | 4 | 8 GB | 40 GB | $- | $- |
| A8v2 | 8 | 16 GB | 80 GB | $- | $- |
| A2mv2 | 2 | 16 GB | 20 GB | $- | $- |
| A4mv2 | 4 | 32 GB | 40 GB | $- | $- |
| A8mv2 | 8 | 64 GB | 80 GB | $- | $- |
Memory Intensive
For large databases, SharePoint server farms and high-throughput applications.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Price | Low Priority pay as you go |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A5 | 2 | 14 GB | 490 GB | $- | $- |
| A6 | 4 | 28 GB | 1,000 GB | $- | $- |
| A7 | 8 | 56 GB | 2,040 GB | $- | $- |
Network optimised—fast networking with InfiniBand support
Available in select data centers. A8 and A9 virtual machines feature Intel® Xeon® E5 processors and a 32 Gbit/s InfiniBand network with remote direct memory access (RDMA) technology. Ideal for Message Passing Interface (MPI) applications, high-performance clusters, modeling and simulations, video encoding, and other compute or network intensive scenarios.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Price | Low Priority pay as you go |
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The H-series is a new family specifically designed to handle high performance computing workloads such as financial risk modeling, seismic and reservoir simulation, molecular modeling and genomic research. They are based on the Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3 Haswell 3.2 GHz (3.6 GHz with turbo) with DDR 4 memory. Turbo is always on for H-series instances. Two of the H-series configurations (H16r, H16mr) also carry a second low latency, high-throughput network interface (RDMA) optimised and tuned for tightly coupled parallel computing workloads such as MPI applications.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Price | Low Priority pay as you go |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H8 | 8 | 56 GB | 1,000 GB | $- | $- |
| H16 | 16 | 112 GB | 2,000 GB | $- | $- |
| H8m | 8 | 112 GB | 1,000 GB | $- | $- |
| H16m | 16 | 224 GB | 2,000 GB | $- | $- |
| H16mr | 16 | 224 GB | 2,000 GB | $- | $- |
| H16r | 16 | 112 GB | 2,000 GB | $- | $- |
Compute Intensive
Available in select data centers. A10 and A11 virtual machines feature Intel® Xeon® E5 processors. For high-performance clusters, modeling and simulations, video encoding and other compute or network intensive scenarios. They are similar to A8 and A9 instance configuration without the InfiniBand network and RDMA technology.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Price | Low Priority pay as you go |
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Optimised compute—60% faster than A-Series, more memory and local SSD
D-Series virtual machines feature solid state drives (SSDs) and faster processors than the A-Series and it is also available for web or worker roles in Azure Cloud Services. This series is ideal for applications that demand faster CPUs, better local disk performance, or higher memories.
General Purpose
For websites, small-to-medium databases and other everyday applications.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Price | Low Priority pay as you go |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1 | 1 | 4 GB | 50 GB | $- | $- |
| D2 | 2 | 7 GB | 100 GB | $- | $- |
| D3 | 4 | 14 GB | 200 GB | $- | $- |
| D4 | 8 | 28 GB | 400 GB | $- | $- |
Memory Intensive
For large databases, SharePoint server farms and high-throughput applications.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Price | Low Priority pay as you go |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D11 | 2 | 14 GB | 100 GB | $- | $- |
| D12 | 4 | 28 GB | 200 GB | $- | $- |
| D13 | 8 | 56 GB | 400 GB | $- | $- |
| D14 | 16 | 112 GB | 800 GB | $- | $- |
Optimised compute—35% faster than D-Series, latest generation of CPU
Dv2-Series instances are the next generation of D-Series instances that can be used as virtual machines or cloud services. Dv2-Series instances will carry more powerful CPUs which are on average about 35% faster than D-Series instances and carry the same memory and disk configurations as the D-Series. Dv2-Series instances are based on the latest generation 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) processor and with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 can go to 3.2 GHz. Dv2-Series and D-Series are ideal for applications that demand faster CPUs, better local disk performance or higher memories and offer a powerful combination for many enterprise-grade applications.
General Purpose
For websites, small-to-medium databases and other everyday applications.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Price | Low Priority pay as you go |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D1 v2 | 1 | 4 GB | 50 GB | $- | $- |
| D2 v2 | 2 | 7 GB | 100 GB | $- | $- |
| D3 v2 | 4 | 14 GB | 200 GB | $- | $- |
| D4 v2 | 8 | 28 GB | 400 GB | $- | $- |
| D5 v2 | 16 | 56 GB | 800 GB | $- | $- |
Memory Intensive
For large databases, SharePoint server farms and high-throughput applications.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Price | Low Priority pay as you go |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D11 v2 | 2 | 14 GB | 100 GB | $- | $- |
| D12 v2 | 4 | 28 GB | 200 GB | $- | $- |
| D13 v2 | 8 | 56 GB | 400 GB | $- | $- |
| D14 v2 | 16 | 112 GB | 800 GB | $- | $- |
| D15 v2 | 20 | 140 GB | 1,000 GB | $- | $- |
D2-64 v3 latest generation
D2-64 v3 instances are the latest, hyper-threaded general purpose generation running on both the 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) and the 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) processor. The Dv3-series sizes offer a combination of vCPU(s), memory and local disk best suited for most production workloads.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Price | Low Priority pay as you go |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D2 v3 | 2 | 8 GB | 50 GB | $- | $- |
| D4 v3 | 4 | 16 GB | 100 GB | $- | $- |
| D8 v3 | 8 | 32 GB | 200 GB | $- | $- |
| D16 v3 | 16 | 64 GB | 400 GB | $- | $- |
| D32 v3 | 32 | 128 GB | 800 GB | $- | $- |
| D48 v3 | 48 | 192 GB | 1,200 GB | $- | $- |
| D64 v3 | 64 | 256 GB | 1,600 GB | $- | $- |
Memory Optimised—High memory-to-core ratio
Great for relational database servers, medium to large caches and in-memory analytics.
G-Series
G-Series virtual machines feature Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v3 family and provide unparalleled computational performance to support large database workloads, specifically SAP, HANA, SQL Server, Hadoop, DataZen and Hortonworks. The G5 instance is isolated to hardware dedicated to a single customer.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Price | Low Priority pay as you go |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G1 | 2 | 28 GB | 384 GB | $- | $- |
| G2 | 4 | 56 GB | 768 GB | $- | $- |
| G3 | 8 | 112 GB | 1,536 GB | $- | $- |
| G4 | 16 | 224 GB | 3,072 GB | $- | $- |
| G5 | 32 | 448 GB | 6,144 GB | $- | $- |
E2-64 v3 latest generation
E2-64 v3 instances are the latest generation of hyper-threaded memory optimised instances. E2-64 v3 instances are based on the 2.3 GHz Intel XEON® E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) processor. E2-64 v3 instances are ideal for memory-intensive enterprise applications. Persistent storage disks are billed separately from virtual machines. To use premium storage disks, use the variant Esv3 virtual machines. The pricing and billing meters for Esv3 sizes are the same as Ev3-series. See pricing for disks.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Price | Low Priority pay as you go |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E2 v3 | 2 | 16 GB | 50 GB | $- | $- |
| E4 v3 | 4 | 32 GB | 100 GB | $- | $- |
| E8 v3 | 8 | 64 GB | 200 GB | $- | $- |
| E16 v3 | 16 | 128 GB | 400 GB | $- | $- |
| E20 v3 | 20 | 160 GB | 500 GB | $- | N/A |
| E32 v3 | 32 | 256 GB | 800 GB | $- | $- |
| E48 v3 | 48 | 384 GB | 1,200 GB | $- | $- |
| E64 v3 | 64 | 432 GB | 1,600 GB | $- | $- |
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