Virtual Machine series

B family

Burstable virtual machines

B family virtual machines (VMs) are economical VMs that provide a low-cost option for workloads that typically run at a low to moderate baseline CPU utilization but sometimes need to burst to significantly higher CPU utilization when the demand rises.

The Basv2 VMs run on the AMD's third Generation EPYC™ 7763v processor in a multi‑threaded configuration.

The Bsv2 VMs are based on the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper‑threaded configuration.

Example workloads include development and test servers, low-traffic web servers, small databases, micro services, servers for proof-of-concepts, and build servers.

D family

General purpose virtual machines

The D family Azure VMs offer a combination of vCPUs, memory, and temporary storage able to meet the requirements associated with most production workloads.

The D family Azure VMs are optimized for general purpose computing and include the following variants. The mid-memory VMs (Das/Ds/Dps) offer 4 GiB of memory per vCPUs and can meet the requirements associated with most production workloads. The low-memory VMs (Dal/Dl/Dpl) offer 2 GiB of memory per vCPUs and are optimized for workloads that require less RAM per vCPUs than standard VM sizes such as small-to-medium databases, low-to-medium traffic web servers, virtual desktops, application servers, batch processing, analytics and more. The D family also includes AMD confidential VMs (DCas) that can help protect sensitive data in memory from being read or altered by unwanted third parties or Azure operators.

These VM series support Azure Premium SSDs, Premium SSDs v2, and Ultra Disk storage depending on regional storage availability.

AMD based VMs

The Dasv7 and Dadsv7 mid-memory VMs are based on the fifth generation AMD EPYC™ 9005 (Turin) processors that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of up to 4.5 GHz. These VMs offer up to 160 vCPUs and 640 GiB of RAM. The Dadsv7 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 8,800 GiB.

The Dalsv7 and Daldsv7 low-memory VMs are based on the fifth generation AMD EPYC™ 9005 (Turin) processors that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of up to 4.5 GHz. These VMs offer up to 160 vCPUs and 320 GiB of RAM. The Daldsv7 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 8,800 GiB.

The Dasv6 and Dadsv6 mid-memory VMs are based on the fourth generation AMD EPYC™ 9004 (Genoa) processors that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of RAM. The Dadsv6 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 5,280 GiB.

The Dalsv6 and Daldsv6 low-memory VMs are based on the fourth generation AMD EPYC™ 9004 (Genoa) processors that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 192 GiB of RAM. The Daldsv6 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 5,280 GiB.

The DCasv6 and DCadsv6 mid-memory confidential VMs are based on the fourth generation AMD EPYC™ 9004 (Genoa) processors that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of RAM. The DCadsv6 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 3,600 GiB. These VMs are confidential computing enabled using AMD SEV-SNP memory protection.

The Dasv5 and Dadsv5 mid-memory VMs are based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYC™ 7763v (Milan) processor. This processor can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 3.5 GHz. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of RAM. The Dadsv5 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 3,600 GiB.

The DCasv5 and DCadsv5 mid-memory confidential VMs are based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYC™ 7763v (Milan) processor. This processor can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 3.5 GHz. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of RAM. The DCadsv5 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 3,600 GiB.

Intel based VMs

The Dsv6 and Ddsv6 mid-memory VMs are based on the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids) processor reaching an all-core turbo clock speed of 3.0 GHz. This processor features Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, Intel® Advanced-Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512), and Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions. These VMs offer up to 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB of RAM. The Ddsv6 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 10,560 GiB.

The Dlsv6 and Dldsv6 low-memory VMs are based on the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids) processor reaching an all-core turbo clock speed of 3.0 GHz. This processor features Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, Intel® Advanced-Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512), and Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions. These VMs offer up to 128 vCPUs and 256 GiB of RAM. The Dldsv6 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 10,560 GiB.

The Dsv5 and Ddsv5 mid-memory VMs are based on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. This custom processor can reach an all-core Turbo clock speed of up to 3.5 GHz and features Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) and Intel® Deep Learning Boost. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of RAM. The Ddsv5 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 3,600 GiB.

The Dlsv5 and Dldsv5 low-memory VMs are based on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. This custom processor can reach an all-core Turbo clock speed of up to 3.5 GHz and features Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) and Intel® Deep Learning Boost. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 192 GiB of RAM. The Dldsv5 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 3,600 GiB.

Arm based VMs

The Dpsv6 and Dpdsv6 mid-memory VMs are based on the Azure Cobalt 100 Arm based processor operating at 3.4 GHz and provide an entire physical core for each vCPU. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of RAM. The Dpdsv6 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 5,280 GiB.

The Dplsv6 and Dpldsv6 low-memory VMs are based on the Azure Cobalt 100 processor operating at 3.4 GHz and provide an entire physical core for each vCPU. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 192 GiB of RAM. The Dpldsv6 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 5,280 GiB.

The Dpsv5 and Dpdsv5 mid-memory VMs are based on the Ampere® Altra® Arm-based processor operating at 3.0 GHz, which provides an entire physical core for each vCPU. These VMs offer up to 64 vCPUs and 208 GiB of RAM. The Dpdsv5 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 2,400 GiB.

The Dplsv5 and Dpldsv5 low-memory VMs are based on the Ampere® Altra® Arm-based processor operating at 3.0 GHz, which provides an entire physical core for each vCPU. These VMs offer up to 64 vCPUs and 128 GiB of RAM. The Dpldsv5 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 2,400 GiB.

The Dplsv5 and Dpldsv5 low-memory VMs are based on the Ampere® Altra® Arm-based processor operating at 3.0 GHz, which provides an entire physical core for each vCPU. These VMs offer up to 64 vCPUs and 128 GiB of RAM. The Dpldsv5 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 2,400 GiB.

Example workloads include many enterprise-grade applications, e-commerce systems, web front ends, desktop virtualization solutions, customer relationship management applications, entry-level and mid-range databases, application servers, gaming servers, and media servers.

E family

Memory optimized virtual machines

The E family Azure VMs are optimized for in-memory applications and offer 8 GiB of memory per vCPUs for all but the largest sizes, which makes them well-suited for memory-intensive enterprise applications, large relational database servers, and in-memory analytics workloads. In addition to the standard memory optimized VMs, the E family includes the higher remote storage performance Intel based VMs (Ebds/Ebs) as well as AMD based confidential VMs (ECas) that can help protect sensitive data in memory from being read or altered by unwanted third parties or Azure operators.

These VM series support Azure Premium SSDs, Premium SSDs v2, and Ultra Disk storage depending on regional storage availability.

AMD based VMs

The Easv7 and Eadsv7 VMs are based on the fifth generation AMD EPYC™ 9005 (Turin) processors that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of up to 4.5 GHz. These VMs offer up to 160 vCPUs and 1280 GiB of RAM. The Eadsv7 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 8,800 GiB.

The Easv6 and Eadsv6 VMs are based on the fourth generation AMD EPYC™ 9004 (Genoa) processors that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 672 GiB of RAM. The Eadsv6 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 5,280 GiB.

The ECasv6 and Ecadsv6 confidential VMs are based on the fourth generation AMD EPYC™ 9004 (Genoa) processors that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 672 GiB of RAM. The ECadsv6 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 3,600 GiB. These VMs are confidential computing enabled using AMD SEV-SNP memory protection.

The Easv5 and Eadsv5 VMs are based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYC™ 7763v (Milan) processor. This processor can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 3.5 GHz. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 672 GiB of RAM with an additional isolated instance size of 112 vCPUs and 672 GiB of RAM. The Eadsv5 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 3,600 GiB. The Edsv5 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 3,600 GiB with 3,900 GiB of local temporary disk storage for the 112 vCPUs isolated instance size.

The ECasv5 and ECadsv5 confidential VMs are based on the 3rd generation AMD EPYC™ 7763v (Milan) processors that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 3.5 GHz. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 672 GiB of RAM. The ECadsv5 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 3,600 GiB.

Intel based VMs

The Esv6 and Edsv6 VMs are based on the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids) processor reaching an all-core turbo clock speed of 3.0 GHz. This processor features Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, Intel® Advanced-Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512), and Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions. These VMs offer up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of RAM and an additional isolated instance size of 192 vCPUs and 1,832 GiB of RAM. The Edsv6 VMs also support temporary disk storage up to 10,560 GiB.

The Esv5 and Edsv5 VMs are based on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. This processor features an all-core turbo clock speed of 3.5 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, Intel® Advanced-Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512) and Intel® Deep Learning Boost. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 672 GiB of RAM with an additional isolated instance size of 104 CPU and 672 GiB of RAM. The Edsv5 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 3,600 GiB with 3,800 GiB of local temporary disk storage for the 104 vCPUs isolated instance size.

The Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VMs are based on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. This custom processor can reach an all-core Turbo clock speed of up to 3.5 GHz and features Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512), and Intel® Deep Learning Boost. These VMs deliver higher remote storage performance and are ideal for storage throughput intensive workloads. They offer up to 260,000 IOPS and 8,000 MBps of remote disk storage throughput, and up to 96 vCPUs and 672 GiB of RAM with an additional isolated instance size of 112 CPU and 672 GiB of RAM, The Ebdsv5 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 3,600 GiB with 3,800 GiB of local temporary disk storage for the 112 vCPUs isolated instance size.

Arm based VMs

The Epsv6 and Epdsv6 VMs are based on the Azure Cobalt 100 processor operating at 3.4 GHz and provide an entire physical core for each virtual machine vCPU. These VMs offer up to 96 vCPUs and 672 GiB of RAM. These VM series provide sizes with (Epdsv6) and offer local temporary storage (Epsv6). The Epdsv6 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 5,280 GiB.

The Epsv5 and Epdsv5 VMs are based on the Arm architecture and deliver outstanding price-performance for memory-intensive workloads. These VMs feature the Ampere® Altra® Arm-based processor operating at up to 3.0 GHz that provides an entire physical core for each virtual machine vCPU. These VMs offer up to 32 vCPUs and 208 GiB of RAM. The Epdsv5 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 1,200 GiB. These VMs are ideal for memory-intensive scale-out workloads including open-source databases, in-memory caching applications, gaming, and analytics.

Example workloads include SAP HANA, SAP S/4 HANA application layer, SAP NetWeaver application layer, and more broadly, memory-intensive enterprise applications, large relational database servers, data warehousing workloads, business intelligence applications, in-memory analytics workloads, and additional business-critical applications, including systems that process transactions of a financial nature.

F Family

Compute optimized virtual machines

The Fasv7, Fadsv7, Falsv7, Faldv7, Famsv7, and Famdsv7 VMs utilize AMD's 5th Generation EPYC™ 9005 (Turin) processor that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of up to 4.5 GHz. These VM series come without Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), meaning a vCPUs is now mapped to a full physical core, allowing software processes to run on dedicated and uncontested resources. The Fasv7 and Fadsv7 mid-memory VMs offer up to 80 full core vCPUs and 320 GiB of RAM. The Fadsv7 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 8,800 GiB. The Falsv7 and Faldsv7 low-memory VMs offer up to 80 full core vCPUs and 160 GiB of RAM. The Faldsv7 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 8,800 GiB. The Famsv7 and Famdsv7 high-memory VMs offer up to 80 full core vCPUs and 640 GiB of RAM. The Famdsv7 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 8,800 GiB.

The Fasv6, Falsv6, and Famsv6 VMs utilize the fourth generation AMD EPYC™ 9004 processor that can achieve a boosted maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz with up to 320 MB L3 cache. These VMs come without Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT), meaning a vCPUs is now mapped to a full physical core, allowing software processes to run on dedicated and uncontested resources. Fasv6 mid-memory VMs offer up to 64 full core vCPUs and 256 GiB of RAM. The Falsv6 low-memory VMs offer up to 64 full core vCPUs and 128 GiB of RAM. The Famsv6 high-memory VMs offer up to 64 full core vCPUs and 512 GiB of RAM.

The FXmsv2 and FXmdsv2 high-memory VMs run on the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids) processor in a multi-threaded configuration. These VMs feature an all-core-turbo frequency up to 4.0 GHz and offer up to 96 vCPUs and 1832 GiB of RAM. The FXmdsv2 VMs support local temporary disk storage of up to 5,280 GiB.

Example workloads include batch processing, web servers, analytics, and gaming for the Fa series VMs, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and SQL workloads for the FX series VMs.

H Family

High Performance Computing virtual machines

The HB-series VMs are optimized for memory bandwidth-bound and compute-intensive HPC workloads, such as fluid dynamics, weather modeling, molecular dynamics, energy simulations, financial analysis, and silicon RTL modeling. HB-series VMs feature up to 352 AMD EPYC™ 9V64H-series CPU cores, 450 GB of RAM, and no multithreading. HB-series VMs also provide 7 TB/s of memory bandwidth, 800 GB/s InfiniBand, up to 32 MB of L3 cache per core, up to 7 GB/s of block device SSD performance, and peak CPU frequencies up to 4.0 GHz.

The HC-series VMs are optimized for HPC applications driven by intensive computation, such as implicit finite element analysis, reservoir simulation, and computational chemistry. HC VMs feature 44 Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 processor cores, 8 GB of RAM per CPU core, no hyper-threading, and up to 4 Managed Disks. The Intel Xeon Platinum platform supports Intel’s rich ecosystem of software tools and features an all-cores clock speed of 3.4 GHz for most workloads.

Example workloads include fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, seismic processing, reservoir simulation, risk analysis, electronic design automation, rendering, Spark, weather modeling, quantum simulation, computational chemistry, and heat transfer simulation.

M Family

Ultra memory optimized virtual machines

The M family of VMs is one of Azure's ultra memory-optimized VM families, designed for extremely memory-intensive workloads including large in-memory databases requiring up to 32 TB of memory, such as SAP HANA, SAP S/4 HANA, and SQL Hekaton, and data warehousing and high-performance computing (HPC).

The Mbsv3 and Mbdsv3 series VMs are both memory and storage optimized. Both series are based on the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 4 TB of RAM. They offer up to 650,000 remote storage IOPS, up to 10 GBps of remote storage throughput, and up to 50 Gbps network bandwidth.

The Msv3-medium memory and Mdsv3-medium memory series VMs are based on the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 4 TB of RAM. They offer up to 130,000 IOPS, up to 4 GBps of remote storage throughput, and up to 40 Gbps network bandwidth.

The Msv3-high memory and Mdsv3-high memory VMs are based on the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 16 TB of RAM. They offer up to 260,000 IOPS and up to 8 GBps of remote disk storage throughput and have up to 40 GBps network bandwidth.

The Msv3-very high memory VMs are based on the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 32 TB of RAM. They offer up to 110,000 IOPS and up to 8 GBps of remote disk storage throughput and have up to 185 GBps network bandwidth.

The Msv2-medium memory and Mdsv2-medium memory VMs are both based on the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 4 TB of RAM. They offer up to 80,000 IOPS, up to 4 GBps of remote storage throughput, and up to 30 Gbps network bandwidth.

The Msv2-high memory VMs are based on the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 11.4 TB of RAM. They offer up to 80,000 IOPS, up to 2 GBps of remote storage throughput, and up to 32 Gbps network bandwidth.

Example workloads include large in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, SAP S/4 HANA, and SQL Hekaton, and data warehousing and high-performance computing (HPC).

N Family

GPU accelerated virtual machines

The N family consists of Azure's GPU enhanced VMs. GPUs are ideal for Artificial Intelligence compute and graphics-intensive workloads, helping customers fuel innovation through scenarios like high-end visualization, AI model training, inference, fine-tuning, and predictive analytics.

The N family has three offerings aimed at specific workloads:

• ND-series VMs are purpose-built for deep learning and AI, delivering the speed and scale to train complex models and handle massive datasets efficiently. Select sizes use the latest NVIDIA A100, H100, H200, GB200, and AMD MI300XGPUs.
• NC-series VMs are optimized for demanding compute workloads such as AI/ML training, HPC simulations, and real-time 3D rendering, providing substantial GPU acceleration for graphics-intensive and scientific tasks. They leverage NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPUs.
• NV-series VMs are designed for graphics-intensive workloads like virtual desktops, 3D visualization, image processing, and foundational AI scenarios. They use NVIDIA Tesla M60, AMD Radeon Instinct MI25, and NVIDIA A10 GPUs.

Azure’s ND-series VMs feature ultra-low latency InfiniBand networking for massive AI training and tightly coupled HPC workloads. NC-series VMs combine powerful compute with optional InfiniBand to accelerate demanding simulations and model training. NV-series VMs leverage high-bandwidth Azure networking optimized for remote visualization, streaming, and interactive graphics, ensuring responsive user experiences.

Example workloads include large-scale AI model training, fine-tuning and distillation, agentic AI systems, digital twins and metaverse simulations, physical AI for robotics and IoT, generative AI inference, immersive visualization, and collaborative 3D design.