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US government entities are eligible to purchase Azure Government services from a licensing solution provider with no upfront financial commitment, or directly through a pay-as-you-go online subscription.
Important—The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
General Purpose
For websites, small-to-medium databases, and other everyday applications.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Pay as you go | 1 year reserved | 3 year reserved |
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| A0 | 1 | 0.75 GB | 20 GB | $- | – – | – – |
| A1 | 1 | 1.75 GB | 225 GB | $- | – – | – – |
| A2 | 2 | 3.50 GB | 490 GB | $- | – – | – – |
| A3 | 4 | 7.00 GB | 1,000 GB | $- | – – | – – |
| A4 | 8 | 14.00 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 | Pay as you go | 1 year reserved | 3 year reserved |
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| A1v2 | 1 | 2.00 GB | 10 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| A2v2 | 2 | 4.00 GB | 20 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| A4v2 | 4 | 8.00 GB | 40 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| A8v2 | 8 | 16.00 GB | 80 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| A2mv2 | 2 | 16.00 GB | 20 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| A4mv2 | 4 | 32.00 GB | 40 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| A8mv2 | 8 | 64.00 GB | 80 GB | $- | $- | $- |
Memory Intensive
For large databases, SharePoint server farms, and high-throughput applications.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Pay as you go | 1 year reserved | 3 year reserved |
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| A5 | 2 | 14.00 GB | 490 GB | $- | – – | – – |
| A6 | 4 | 28.00 GB | 1,000 GB | $- | – – | – – |
| A7 | 8 | 56.00 GB | 2,040 GB | $- | – – | – – |
Network optimized—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 | Pay as you go | 1 year reserved | 3 year reserved |
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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) optimized and tuned for tightly coupled parallel computing workloads such as MPI applications.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Pay as you go | 1 year reserved | 3 year reserved |
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| H8 | 8 | 56.00 GB | 1,000 GB | $- | – – | – – |
| H16 | 16 | 112.00 GB | 2,000 GB | $- | – – | – – |
| H8m | 8 | 112.00 GB | 1,000 GB | $- | – – | – – |
| H16m | 16 | 224.00 GB | 2,000 GB | $- | – – | – – |
| H16mr | 16 | 224.00 GB | 2,000 GB | $- | – – | – – |
| H16r | 16 | 112.00 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're similar to A8 and A9 instance configuration without the InfiniBand network and RDMA technology.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Pay as you go | 1 year reserved | 3 year reserved |
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Optimized 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’s 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 | Pay as you go | 1 year reserved | 3 year reserved |
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| D1 | 1 | 3.50 GB | 50 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D2 | 2 | 7.00 GB | 100 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D3 | 4 | 14.00 GB | 200 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D4 | 8 | 28.00 GB | 400 GB | $- | $- | $- |
Memory Intensive
For large databases, SharePoint server farms, and high-throughput applications.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Pay as you go | 1 year reserved | 3 year reserved |
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| D11 | 2 | 14.00 GB | 100 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D12 | 4 | 28.00 GB | 200 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D13 | 8 | 56.00 GB | 400 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D14 | 16 | 112.00 GB | 800 GB | $- | $- | $- |
Optimized 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 | Pay as you go | 1 year reserved | 3 year reserved |
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| D1 v2 | 1 | 3.50 GB | 50 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D2 v2 | 2 | 7.00 GB | 100 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D3 v2 | 4 | 14.00 GB | 200 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D4 v2 | 8 | 28.00 GB | 400 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D5 v2 | 16 | 56.00 GB | 800 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary Storage | Pay as you go | 1 year reserved | 3 year reserved |
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| D2 v3 | 2 | 8.00 GB | 50 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D4 v3 | 4 | 16.00 GB | 100 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D8 v3 | 8 | 32.00 GB | 200 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D16 v3 | 16 | 64.00 GB | 400 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D32 v3 | 32 | 128.00 GB | 800 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D48 v3 | 48 | 192.00 GB | 1,200 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D64 v3 | 64 | 256.00 GB | 1,600 GB | $- | $- | $- |
Memory Intensive
For large databases, SharePoint server farms, and high-throughput applications.
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Temporary Storage | Pay as you go | 1 year reserved | 3 year reserved |
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| D11 v2 | 2 | 14.00 GB | 100 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D12 v2 | 4 | 28.00 GB | 200 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D13 v2 | 8 | 56.00 GB | 400 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D14 v2 | 16 | 112.00 GB | 800 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| D15 v2 | 20 | 140.00 GB | 1,000 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary Storage | Pay as you go | 1 year reserved | 3 year reserved |
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| E2 v3 | 2 | 16.00 GB | 50 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| E4 v3 | 4 | 32.00 GB | 100 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| E8 v3 | 8 | 64.00 GB | 200 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| E16 v3 | 16 | 128.00 GB | 400 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| E20 v3 | 20 | 160.00 GB | 500 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| E32 v3 | 32 | 256.00 GB | 800 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| E48 v3 | 48 | 384.00 GB | 1,200 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| E64 v3 | 64 | 432.00 GB | 1,600 GB | $- | $- | $- |
Memory Optimized—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 | Pay as you go | 1 year reserved | 3 year reserved |
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| G1 | 2 | 28.00 GB | 384 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| G2 | 4 | 56.00 GB | 768 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| G3 | 8 | 112.00 GB | 1,536 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| G4 | 16 | 224.00 GB | 3,072 GB | $- | $- | $- |
| G5 | 32 | 448.00 GB | 6,144 GB | $- | $- | $- |
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Frequently asked questions
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Maybe. If the status says “Stopped (Deallocated),” you’re not being billed. If it says “Stopped Allocated,” you’re still being billed for allocated cores.
State Billed Details Starting Yes The initial starting state of cloud services as they are going through the boot cycle. This period is billed as the cloud services are running. Running (Started) Yes The running state of the cloud services. Stopped Yes A “Stopped” cloud service only stops the role host processes running in the VMs, but the VMs are still running and you are billed for allocated cores.
Note—To put a cloud service in a “Stopped” state, use the “Stop” option from the Microsoft Azure portal.Deleted (Deallocated) No Cores are no longer allocated to the cloud services and are no longer billed.
Note: The only way to stop all VMs in a cloud service is to delete both the staging and production deployments. -
Cloud services are billed based on the duration of time your service was deployed for. If your instance was deployed for less than an hour, or multiple hours plus some fraction of hour, you will be charged for that duration only. Azure does not round up the partial hour to full hour for billing—you pay for exactly the duration of time that your cloud services instance was in "running" state.
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Previously, all usage for A0, A2, A3, and A4 Azure Standard and Basic Cloud Services was emitted as fractions (for A0) or multiples (for A2, A3, and A4) of A1 Azure Cloud Services meter minutes. We heard this caused some confusion for our customers, so we’ve implemented a change to assign per-minute usage to dedicated A0, A2, A3, and A4 meters starting on January 11, 2016. As a result of this transition, the resource GUIDs for A0, A2, A3, and A4 Azure Cloud Services will change. If any of your billing routines rely on the resource GUIDs, they’ll need to be modified to take these new billing meters into consideration.
Deployment size Usage emitted as multiple of A1 through January 10, 2016 Usage emitted on dedicated meter starting January 11, 2016 A0 0.25 of A1 hour 1 of A0 hour A2 2 of A1 hour 1 of A2 hour A3 4 of A1 hour 1 of A3 hour A4 8 of A1 hour 1 of A4 hour -
Although both A7 and A8 instances have 8 virtual cores and 56 GB of RAM, A8 instances also offer the advantage of an additional 32 Gbit/s InfiniBand network that includes remote direct memory access (RDMA) technology for maximum efficiency of parallel MPI applications.
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The InfiniBand network can be used for high performance applications that require a low latency and high throughput communication between compute instances. A common example are parallel applications that use Message Passing Interface (MPI).
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The InfiniBand network can be used for high performance applications that require a low latency and high throughput communication between compute instances. A common example are parallel applications that use Message Passing Interface (MPI).
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No. The InfiniBand network in A8 and A9 instances is used only to connect compute instances within the same Cloud Services deployment, so that compute-intensive applications running on these instances can communicate with the highest efficiency.
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No, the prices listed are tax exclusive therefore tax will be added separately.
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