General availability: G-series for Azure Cloud Services
Published date: November 15, 2016
G-series virtual machines feature the Intel Xeon processor E5 v3 family and provide unparalleled computational performance to support large database workloads. Here are the CPU, memory, and disk configurations for G-series instances:
| Instance | Cores | RAM | Disk sizes |
| G1 | 2 | 28 GB | 384 GB |
| G2 | 4 | 56 GB | 768 GB |
| G3 | 8 | 112 GB | 1,536 GB |
| G4 | 16 | 224 GB | 3,072 GB |
| G5 | 32 | 448 GB | 6,144 GB |
The G-series is now available on Azure Cloud Services in US West, US East 2, Europe West, Asia Southeast, Australia East, Canada Central, Canada East, Germany Central, and US Gov Virginia. For more information, see the Sizes for Cloud Services article. For a comprehensive look at pricing, please visit the Azure Cloud Services pricing page.