AMD-based Eav4-series virtual machines are now generally available in Azure HDInsight

Azure Eav4-series virtual machines, featuring AMD EPYC™ 7452 processors are now available in Azure HDInsight. The Eav4-series virtual machines provide up to 96 vCPUs, 672 GiBs of RAM and 2,400 GiBs of SSD-based temporary storage.

The Eav4-series virtual machines are ideal for memory intensive workloads, and offer great performance for large in-memory business critical workloads at competitive price points.

The Eav4-series instances is now available in Australia East, Brazil South, Central US, East Asia, East US, Japan East, Southeast Asia, UK South, West Europe, and West US 2, with additional regions coming soon. You can build Hadoop, Spark, Hive, interactive query (LLAP), Kafka, and HBase solutions with Eav4-series.

For more information see the Eav4 series documentation, and watch the HDInsight Service Update page for updates.