AMD and Azure

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

OVERVIEW

Discover AMD on Azure

Azure Virtual Machines featuring AMD EPYC™ processors, AMD Instinct™ accelerators, and AMD Radeon™ PRO graphics provide powerful, cost-effective solutions for a wide range of workloads.

Power your most common Linux and Windows compute workloads. Choose from general purpose, memory optimized, compute optimized, storage optimized, and burstable VMs across five generations of AMD EPYC™ processors.

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Powered by AMD since 2019, HB-series VMs come with technology such as AMD 3D V-Cache™ and high-bandwidth memory not available in HPC offerings elsewhere. Together, Azure and AMD deliver HPC with near-infinite scalability for the most complex workloads.

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Azure’s AMD based DCa/ECa v5 and v6 confidential VMs use AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) technology to help protect data in use in memory inside a hardware-based and attested trusted execution environment (TEE).

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Choose IaaS or use services built on AMD infrastructure for your AI workloads—including data prep for training runs with HPC VMs, inference and training with AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs, and inference and machine learning workloads with Da/Ea/Fa-v7 or the NVads V710 v5.

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Deploy affordable, modern desktop experiences on Azure with AMD, whether through VMs or managed in Azure Virtual Desktop. For a workstation in the cloud experience, consider NV V710 v5 VMs. For everyday VDI, consider Da/Ea-series v7 or v6 VMs.

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AMD INFRASTUCTURE ON AZURE

Migrate and modernize with confidence with AMD on Azure

Whether you’re just getting started or are an expert in deploying compute for your business, AMD and Azure offer infrastructure with scale, efficiency, and performance you need.


Workloads	Use cases	VM types	Key VM specs	AMD products
General purpose¹	Web servers, virtual desktop, e-commerce, application servers, small databases, AI inference	Dav4/v5/v6/v7-series, Dalv6/v7-series	Up to 160 vCPUs, 4 or 2 GB of RAM per vCPU	5th, 4th, 3rd, and 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™
Memory optimized²	Relational databases, in-memory analytics, business-critical apps, AI inference	Eav4/v5/v6/v7-series	Up to 160 vCPUs, 8 GB of RAM per vCPU	5th, 4th, 3rd, and 2nd Gen AMD EPYC
Compute optimized³	Rendering, financial modeling and risk analysis, scientific simulations, heavy CPU core-limited licensed software	Fav6/v7-series, Falv6/v7-series, Famv6/v7-series	Up to 80 vCPUs where a vCPU is a full CPU core (simultaneous multithreading disabled); 2, 4, and 8 GB of RAM per vCPU	5th and 4th Gen AMD EPYC
Burstable⁴	Microservices, small databases, web servers, code repositories, dev/test environments	Basv2 series	Up to 32 vCPUs, 1–4 GB of RAM per vCPU, burstable performance when needed	3rd Gen AMD EPYC
High-performance computing (HPC)⁵	Advanced EDA, weather simulation, CFD, FEA, seismic processing, reservoir simulation, risk analysis, AI data prep	HBv2/v3/v4/v5-series, HX series	Scales up to 100,000+ cores. HBv5: up to 368 cores, 432 GB HBM3. HBv4/HX: up to 176 cores, AMD 3D V-Cache™.	4th Gen AMD EPYC with high-bandwidth memory or AMD 3D V-Cache, 3rd Gen with AMD 3D V-Cache™, and 2nd Gen AMD EPYC
Confidential computing⁶	General purpose and memory-optimized workloads with confidentiality requirements	DCav5/v6-series, ECav5/v6-series	Up to 96 vCPUs, 4 or 8 GB of RAM per vCPU enabled with AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization	4th and 3rd Gen AMD EPYC with AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization
Accelerated computing⁷	AI training and inferencing, fine tuning	ND MI300X v5	8 GPUs with 1.5 TB high-bandwidth GPU memory	AMD Instinct™ MI300X
Visualization and gaming⁸	Virtual desktops, workstation graphics, rendering, gaming, AI inference, machine learning	NVa-series, NGa-series	GPUs with partitioning capabilities, option with high frequency CPU performance, variety of memory and vCPU ratios	4th, 3rd, and 2nd Gen AMD EPYC, AMD Radeon™ PRO V710 and V620, AMD Instinct™ MI25
Storage optimized⁹	NoSQL databases, big data, cloud-scale analytics, large transactional databases, data warehousing, AI data prep	Laosv4 series, Lav3/v4-series, Lsv2 series	Up to 96 vCPUs, up to 23TB local high-performance NVMe storage, 8 GB of RAM per vCPU	4th, 3rd, and 2nd Gen AMD EPYC

RESOURCES

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New VMs based on 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs

Discover the latest Azure v7 Da/Ea/Fa AMD-based VMs with significant enhancements over the previous generation.

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AeC enhances customer relations with Azure and AMD EPYC™ CPUs

Brazil’s AeC switched its Azure VDI to AMD EPYC CPUs, cutting costs by 30% and boosting performance.

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Nissan enhances crash test simulation performance with AMD on Azure

Nissan achieved 30% better performance by switching crash testing workloads to Azure VMs with AMD EPYC™ CPUs.

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Microsoft transforms licensing with cloud security and confidential computing

Learn why the Windows Licensing Service team migrated its compute to AMD- based DCa/ECa v6 confidential VMs.

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Unlock AI performance and cost efficiency on Microsoft Azure

Learn about why customers and offerings such as Azure App Service adopt AMD infrastructure.

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