Today, we’re announcing support for a new series of virtual machine sizes for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines and Web/Worker Roles called the
D-Series. These sizes offer up to 112 GB in memory with compute processors that are approximately 60 percent faster than our A-Series virtual machines. Even more exciting, these sizes have up to 800 GB of temporary SSD disk for blazingly fast reads and writes. The new sizes offer an optimal configuration for running workloads that require increased processing power and fast temporary I/O, including SQL Server 2014. These sizes are available for both Virtual Machines and Cloud Services.The new sizes are defined in the following tables.
General Purpose| Name | vCores | Memory (GB) | Local Disk (GB) |
| Standard_D1 | 1 | 3.5 | 50 |
| Standard_D2 | 2 | 7 | 100 |
| Standard_D3 | 4 | 14 | 200 |
| Standard_D4 | 8 | 28 | 400 |
High Memory| Name | vCores | Memory (GB) | Local Disk (GB) |
| Standard_D11 | 2 | 14 | 100 |
| Standard_D12 | 4 | 28 | 200 |
| Standard_D13 | 8 | 56 | 400 |
| Standard_D14 | 16 | 112 | 800 |
For pricing information, see
Virtual Machine Pricing Details.