Azure Virtual Machines will be running on ARM-based CPUs from Ampere Computing. Multiple server types such as web, gaming, application, and databases may have almost 50% price-performance benefits.
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The newest Availability Zones are aimed at providing more resiliency to the South Central U.S. region, enabling key functionalities including Site Recovery, built-in data replication, and more.
The Azure service was made generally available a few months back. Microsoft has now gone over some of the features that have been introduced since then, including new ones as well.
In an effort to bolster utilization of unused Azure compute capacity, Microsoft has introduced Azure Virtual Spot Machines. A variety of workloads are noted to be supported at discounted prices.
Microsoft has expanded upon Project Tardigrade, the initiative it announced at this year's Build conference, which allows Azure to become more resilient against spontaneous platform failures.
Microsoft is announcing a plethora of improvements to its Azure offerings, including new Virtual Machines with up to 12TB of memory on a single VM and cheaper options with just 192GB.
The software giant has announced a preview of its Lv2-series Azure virtual machines which support AMD's EPYC processors. Specifically, the one highlighted is the dual-socket EPYC 7551.