Public Preview: New FX series VMs - FXmsv2 and FXmdsv2

Azure is proud to announce newest additions to the FX subfamily of VMs, the FXmsv2 FXmdsv2 series, powered by the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8473C (Emerald Rapids) processor in a hyper threaded configuration, ideal for memory and compute intensive workloads. This new processor features an all- core turbo clock speed of 3.0 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, Intel® Advanced-Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) and Intel® Deep Learning Boost. These VM series target workloads that require a high CPU clock speed and high memory to CPU ratio, and applications requiring a high single-core performance, high IOPS and throughput, such as electronic design automation (EDA) workloads. These virtual machines offer up to 96 vCPU and 1832 GiB of RAM.

All these VM series are available with and without a local disk so that you can choose the option that best fits each workload.

During the preview period, the VMs are available in the West US 3 and Southeast Asia regions for all VM sizes up to 96 vCPU. The number of regions will continue to expand in 2024 and beyond.

You can sign up to access the VMs in the preview sign up form and learn more in the blog and documentation.

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