Virtual Machines

Today we are announcing 10 additional compute optimized VM sizes. This new series of VMs, called the F-Series, are based on the 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) processor, which can achieve clock speeds as high as 3.

Today, I’m excited to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.3 as a ready-made VM image available directly from the Azure Marketplace.

Azure Automation and Virtual Machines are pleased to announce the public preview release of a new feature that allows you to configure Azure Virtual Machine alerts to run Azure Automation runbooks.

One of the great benefits of Azure VMs is the ability to change the size of your VM based on the needs for CPU, Network or disk performance.

As part of our promise to deliver the best customer value on Azure, we have had a longstanding commitment to make our prices comparable on commodity services like compute, storage, and bandwidth relative to Amazon Web Services.

The Azure team has been working closely with credativ to curate official Debian images for the Azure Gallery and Marketplace and today we’re pleased to announce the availability of Debian GNU/Linux as an endorsed distribution in the Azure Marketplace in collaboration with credativ.

VM Scale Sets are an Azure Compute resource you can use to deploy and manage a collection of virtual machines as a set.

We’re excited to announce a variant of G-series, the GS-series, which combines the compute power of G-series with the performance of Premium Storage to create powerful VMs for your most storage and compute intensive applications.

From the basics of what containers are and how they work, to the scenarios they’re being most widely used for today, to emerging trends supporting “containerization”, I thought I’d share my perspectives to better help you understand how to best embrace this important cloud computing

Today, I am excited to announce that Scalr’s Cloud Management Platform has added support for Azure Virtual Machines.

It was only one year ago, at DockerCon, that we announced the first step in our partnership with Docker. Since then, we have been working on a broad set of innovations that further empower you to build and run the next great app.

As a part of our partnership, Microsoft has worked with the Docker community to port the Docker client to Windows, making it easy to manage Docker hosts and containers for those using Windows as their development machines.