{"id":51320,"date":"2026-06-02T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/?p=51320"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:33:32","slug":"new-azure-cobalt-200-vms-deliver-50-performance-improvement-fully-optimized-for-modern-agentic-ai-workloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/new-azure-cobalt-200-vms-deliver-50-performance-improvement-fully-optimized-for-modern-agentic-ai-workloads\/","title":{"rendered":"New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement, fully optimized for modern agentic AI workloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside id=\"accordion-32767d25-0662-41e3-980f-40527e8727cc\" class=\"table-of-contents-block accordion pb-0\" data-bi-aN=\"table-of-contents\">\n\t<button class=\"btn btn-collapse mb-0 display-flex justify-content-between w-100\" type=\"button\" data-mount=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#accordion-collapse-32767d25-0662-41e3-980f-40527e8727cc\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"accordion-collapse-32767d25-0662-41e3-980f-40527e8727cc\">\n\t\t<span class=\"table-of-contents-block__label subtitle\">In this article<\/span>\n\t\t<span class=\"table-of-contents-block__current mr-4 text-gray-600 font-weight-normal\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\n\t\t<svg class=\"table-of-contents-block__arrow\" aria-label=\"Toggle arrow\" width=\"18\" height=\"11\" viewBox=\"0 0 18 11\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t<path d=\"M15.7761 11L18 8.82043L9 0L0 8.82043L2.22394 11L9 4.35913L15.7761 11Z\" fill=\"currentColor\" \/>\n\t\t<\/svg>\n\t<\/button>\n\t<div id=\"accordion-collapse-32767d25-0662-41e3-980f-40527e8727cc\" class=\"table-of-contents-block__collapse-wrapper collapse show\" data-parent=\"#accordion-32767d25-0662-41e3-980f-40527e8727cc\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-body p-0\">\n\t\t\t<ol class=\"table-of-contents-block__list\"><li class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item\"><a class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\" href=\"#building-on-the-success-of-cobalt-100-vms\">Building on the success of Cobalt 100 VMs<\/a><\/li><li class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item\"><a class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\" href=\"#what-s-new-in-cobalt-200-arm-based-vms\">What\u2019s new in Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs<\/a><\/li><li class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item\"><a class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\" href=\"#industry-partners-and-customer-adoption\">Industry partners and customer adoption<\/a><\/li><li class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item\"><a class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\" href=\"#developer-ecosystem-and-arm-compatibility\">Developer ecosystem and Arm compatibility<\/a><\/li><li class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item\"><a class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\" href=\"#microsoft-services-powered-by-cobalt-200-vms\">Microsoft services powered by Cobalt 200 VMs<\/a><\/li><li class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item\"><a class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\" href=\"#vm-families-and-specifications\">VM families and specifications<\/a><\/li><li class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item\"><a class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\" href=\"#the-next-chapter-in-azure-s-custom-silicon-journey\">The next chapter in Azure\u2019s custom silicon journey<\/a><\/li><li class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item\"><a class=\"table-of-contents-block__list-item-link\" href=\"#additional-resources\">Additional resources<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<span class=\"table-of-contents-block__progress-bar\"><\/span>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As organizations increasingly embrace the agentic era for AI, customer demands for compute are reshaping the architecture of cloud infrastructure as we know it. Today at <strong>Microsoft Build 2026, we are announcing the early access preview for <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/Cobalt200VMs-signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based Virtual Machines<\/a> (VMs)<\/strong>, designed from the ground up for scale-out, cloud-native, and Linux-based agentic AI workloads, with up to 50% better generational performance over Cobalt 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cobalt 200 is purpose-built from silicon to servers to services\u2014integrating Microsoft&#8217;s latest innovations in security, networking, storage, and offload to outperform traditional Arm-based compute. That hardware-software co-optimization lets us push the boundaries of scale, security, and cost for AI inferencing, data pipelines, and the web and API tiers that power modern services. Agents are unique from traditional workloads: they reason, make sequential decisions, and run continuously at scale\u2014demanding a fundamentally different computational profile. Cobalt 200 is built for exactly this environment, delivering 50% performance gains for the workloads defining the next era of enterprise AI, making agents faster, more capable, and economically viable at scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/Cobalt200VMs-signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Get early access to Azure Cobalt 200 VMs<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"building-on-the-success-of-cobalt-100-vms\">Building on the success of Cobalt 100 VMs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100, our first custom-built processor for cloud-native workloads is now deployed in 32 Azure datacenter regions around the world, with cloud analytics leaders like Databricks and Snowflake adopting Cobalt 100 to optimize their cloud footprint, while customers like Amadeus, OneTrust, Siemens, Sprinklr, and Temenos have achieved significant real-world performance and efficiency gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within Microsoft\u2019s own cloud services, Azure Cobalt 100 VMs are delivering up to 45% better performance while using 35% fewer compute cores compared to its previous compute platform. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-in\/security\/business\/endpoint-security\/microsoft-defender-endpoint\" id=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-in\/security\/business\/endpoint-security\/microsoft-defender-endpoint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE)<\/a> saw 40% better performance in its cyber data curator, enabling faster threat response at massive scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Cobalt 200 VMs, we are applying everything we learned towards supporting these demanding services to raise the bar even further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-s-new-in-cobalt-200-arm-based-vms\">What\u2019s new in Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/blog\/azureinfrastructureblog\/announcing-cobalt-200-azure%E2%80%99s-next-cloud-native-cpu\/4469807\">Cobalt 200 CPU represents a significant leap forward in performance, security, and efficiency<\/a>. At the heart of every Cobalt 200 VM is the Cobalt 200 System-on-Chip (SoC), our second-generation Arm processor built around the Arm Neoverse V3 Compute Subsystems, the highest-performance V-series core in Arm\u2019s portfolio. Fabricated on TSMC\u2019s 3nm (N3P) process, Cobalt 200 features a modern chiplet architecture, custom accelerators, and a custom memory controller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key innovations in Cobalt 200 VMs include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>Generational performance gains across compute, storage, and networking: <\/strong>Compared to previous-generation Cobalt 100 VMs, new Cobalt 200 VMs deliver up to 50% better CPU performance, 20% higher remote storage IOPS with NVMe, 10% better remote storage throughput with NVMe, and 15% higher network bandwidth, with improvements varying by workload. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>Up to 128 vCPUs: <\/strong>Cobalt 200 VMs scale up to 128 vCPUs, delivering more compute capacity for demanding scale-out, cloud-native, agentic AI, and data-intensive workloads. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>Faster remote storage and networking: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/products\/virtual-machines\/boost\" id=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/products\/virtual-machines\/boost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure Boost<\/a> integration helps improve remote storage IOPS and throughput with NVMe while increasing network bandwidth, benefiting distributed applications, storage-intensive services, and high-throughput data pipelines. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>Advanced cache and scalable system design: <\/strong>A modern chiplet architecture with a larger cache hierarchy\u2014including 3 MB of L2 cache per core and 192 MB of system-level L3 cache\u2014keeps more active data closer to the workload, helping reduce latency and improve responsiveness for databases, in-memory caches, analytics engines, and other data-intensive services. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>Stronger security by default: <\/strong>Memory encryption is enabled by default through a custom-designed memory controller, helping raise the baseline security posture for every workload with negligible performance impact. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"performance-for-agentic-ai-workloads\">Performance for agentic AI workloads<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cobalt 200 delivers the per-core performance and scalability needed to power modern agentic AI workloads. Each Cobalt 200 core is a full physical core, paired with dedicated 3 MB of L2 cache, and leading memory bandwidth per core. These design points enable higher isolation and sustained performance under load, which allow agentic workloads to pack more agent sandboxes per VM while meeting latency and throughput requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"real-cloud-workload-performance\">Real cloud workload performance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cobalt 200 VMs show a broad generational uplift over Cobalt 100 on the workloads that matter most in production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With cloud workloads, we observe:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Up to 135% better performance for cloud database workloads.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Up to 40% better performance for web serving workloads.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Up to 45% better performance for communication encryption workloads.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">And up to 80% better performance for caching workloads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a1f1d2f066e4&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a1f1d2f066e4\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full wp-lightbox-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-01-163310.webp\" alt=\"Cobalt 200 bar chart, per v C P U performance increase relative to Cobalt 100.\" class=\"wp-image-51459 webp-format\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-01-163310.webp\"><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\taria-label=\"Enlarge\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.imageButtonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.imageButtonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The uplift measured is visible in real hyperscale services. Taken together, these results show that Cobalt 200 raises the floor on per-core performance across cloud-native applications, databases, analytics, caches, and communications workloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"industry-partners-and-customer-adoption\">Industry partners and customer adoption<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have been working closely with our technology partners and customers during the preview period to ensure Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs deliver strong results across a wide range of real-world workloads. Leading software development companies and enterprises are already evaluating and adopting these VMs for their most demanding applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"teradata\">Teradata<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Teradata is excited to be an early preview partner for Microsoft\u2019s Cobalt 200 VMs. Microsoft has been a strong partner, and we value the opportunity to help shape the design and specifications to better meet the needs of our joint customers. Early testing has been encouraging, and we look forward to continued collaboration.<\/p>\n<cite>\u2014Brandon Mincey, Engineering Fellow, Teradata<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"elastic\">Elastic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Elastic is committed to delivering best-in-class performance with the Search AI Platform that powers observability, security, search, and AI solutions. Performance and cost efficiency are critical for teams running these workloads at scale and our initial testing of the new Cobalt 200 VMs shows promise for further improvements in these areas. We look forward to bringing these benefits to Elasticsearch users on Azure through our continued collaboration with Microsoft.<\/p>\n<cite>\u2014Yuvraj Gupta, Director, Product Management, Elastic<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"arm\">Arm<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Agentic AI is reshaping the cloud and creating demand for infrastructure that can efficiently orchestrate and scale millions of intelligent interactions in real time. Our collaboration with Microsoft on Cobalt 200, built on Arm Neoverse CSS V3, reflects how purpose-built Arm-based compute is enabling the next generation of AI-driven services while continuing to deliver exceptional performance for cloud-native applications.<\/p>\n<cite>\u2014Eddie Ramirez, Vice President of go-to-market, Cloud AI Business Unit, Arm<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"canonical\">Canonical<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Cobalt 200 delivers key advances for production Linux workloads on Arm, including memory encryption enabled by default, built-in acceleration for compression and encryption, and higher throughput for data-intensive cloud services. Ubuntu gives organizations a consistent platform for cloud-native and agentic AI workloads across Azure, and Ubuntu Pro keeps it production-ready with long-term security maintenance and Livepatch, which now brings rebootless kernel updates to Arm so always-on services stay available.<\/p>\n<cite>\u2014Jehudi Castro-Sierra, Public Cloud Alliance Director, Canonical<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"developer-ecosystem-and-arm-compatibility\">Developer ecosystem and Arm compatibility<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Arm developer ecosystem continues to thrive. Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs deliver full compatibility for workloads currently running on Cobalt 100 VMs, making migration seamless. Major developer platforms and languages\u2014including C++, .NET, Java, Python, and Rust\u2014provide Arm-native versions with optimizations that fully leverage the capabilities of the Arm architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The broader ecosystem has embraced Arm with native support across popular infrastructure and deployment solutions. GitHub Actions supports Arm through both self-hosted and GitHub-hosted runners. <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/products\/kubernetes-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)<\/a> supports Arm agent nodes as well as mixed x86 and Arm architecture clusters. Containerized workloads benefit from the growing availability of Arm-native container images across the ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"microsoft-services-powered-by-cobalt-200-vms\">Microsoft services powered by Cobalt 200 VMs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft\u2019s own cloud services are among the first to adopt Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs, building on the success of Cobalt 100 adoption across our most demanding, mission-critical workloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"dataverse\">Dataverse<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dataverse is the core application and data platform underpinning Dynamics and Power Platform workloads, requiring high performance, scalability, and low latency to deliver a responsive customer experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">We deployed the Power Apps platform on Cobalt 100 for its improved performance and power efficiency. We are validating Cobalt 200 now and excited by the performance gains we are seeing&#8211;up to 60% better performance for our base workload over Cobalt 100.<\/p>\n<cite>\u2014Mauktik Gandhi, VP Engineering, Agent 365 Platform<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"azure-databases\">Azure Databases<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/products\/azure-sql\/database\" id=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/products\/azure-sql\/database\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure SQL Database<\/a> is a natural fit for Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs. The built-in compression and cryptography accelerators are particularly impactful for database workloads\u2014by offloading compression and encryption tasks to the Cobalt 200 accelerator, Azure SQL is able to reduce the use of critical compute resources, prioritizing them for customer queries and transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Our teams collaborated from the beginning to ensure that the architecture of Cobalt 200 is optimized for hosting databases in Azure. We are excited about the performance gains we are seeing over Cobalt 100 and looking forward to broader availability later this year.<\/p>\n<cite>\u2014Shireesh Thota, Corporate Vice President, Azure Databases<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"vm-families-and-specifications\">VM families and specifications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cobalt 200 VMs significantly expand our Arm VM portfolio based on customer feedback to support a broader set of workloads. While Cobalt 100 offered General Purpose (Dp,Dpl), and Memory Optimized (Ep) VM families, Cobalt 200 adds two more VM families: the High-Memory Optimized Mpsv4 VMs and Dense Local Storage Lpsv5 VMs, bringing more choice across compute, memory, and storage profiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All VM series deliver up to 85 Gbps of network bandwidth and 70 Gbps of remote storage throughput, except Mpsv4\/Mpdsv4, which provide up to 70 Gbps of network bandwidth and 46 Gbps of remote storage throughput. Most series are available with or without local NVMe disks, while Lpsv5 includes local NVMe storage across all sizes, giving customers flexibility to optimize for cost or performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">VM family<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">vCPUs<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Mem-to-vCPU Ratio <\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Local NVMe storage <\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Best-fit workloads <\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">General Purpose <br><strong>Dplsv7\/Dpldsv7<\/strong> <\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">1\u2013128<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">2:1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Yes \u2013 Up to 7 TiB<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><p>Most non-memory-intensive and scale-out workloads such as microservices, small databases, caches, gaming servers, and more.<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">General Purpose <br><strong>Dpsv7\/Dpdsv7<\/strong> <\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">1\u2013128<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">4:1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Yes \u2013 Up to 7 TiB<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><p>Most scale-out enterprise workloads such as web and application servers, small to medium databases, caches, and more.<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Memory Optimized <br><strong>Epsv7\/Epdsv7<\/strong> <\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">1\u2013128<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">8:1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Yes \u2013 Up to 7 TiB<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><p>Large relational and NoSQL databases, in-memory caches such as Redis and Memcached, and real-time analytics.<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><em>(New)<\/em> <br>High Memory Optimized <br><strong>Mpsv4\/Mpdsv4<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">1\u201384<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">16:1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Yes \u2013 Up to 4.4 TiB<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><p>Large in-memory databases, ERP systems, large-scale caching layers, and memory-intensive analytics workloads.<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><em>(New)<\/em> <br>Storage Optimized <br><strong>Lpsv5<\/strong> <\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">1\u2013128<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">8:1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Yes \u2013 Up to 23 TB<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><p>Data pre-processing and staging, relational and NoSQL databases with local storage requirements, big data analytics, and search\/index engines.<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All Cobalt 200 VMs will support remote disk types including Standard SSD, Standard HDD, Premium SSD, and Ultra Disk storage. You can deploy these new VMs using existing methods, including the Azure portal, SDKs, APIs, PowerShell, and the command-line interface (CLI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"availability\">Availability<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs are now available in preview. The new VMs will be available in preview in the following regions: West US3, East US2, Central US, Sweden Central, East US, West US2, Spain Central, and Indonesia Central, with additional regions to be announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-next-chapter-in-azure-s-custom-silicon-journey\">The next chapter in Azure\u2019s custom silicon journey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement of Cobalt 200 Arm-based Virtual Machines marks the next chapter in Azure\u2019s purpose-built infrastructure journey. With our end-to-end systems approach\u2014designing the CPU in-house and optimizing it for Azure\u2019s infrastructure\u2014we are delivering a tightly integrated platform that offers performance, power efficiency, and security for our customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether you\u2019re accelerating product development, scaling analytics platforms, running mission-critical databases, or improving user experiences, Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs offer a compelling choice for modern cloud workloads. 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