Microsoft Azure Instance Types

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Instance types offered by Microsoft Azure.

General purpose compute

Bs

Bs-series are economical virtual machines that provide a low-cost option for workloads that typically run at a low to moderate baseline CPU performance, but sometimes need to burst to significantly higher CPU performance when the demand rises. These workloads don’t require the use of the full CPU all the time, but occasionally will need to burst to finish some tasks more quickly. Many applications such as development and test servers, low traffic web servers, small databases, micro services, servers for proof-of-concepts, build servers, and code repositories fit into this model.
Very small temporary storage is included.

Cost per vCPU: Between $15.18 and $30.39
RAM per vCPU: Between 2.0 and 4.0GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Mix
Shared CPU: yes
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing
Tested plans: B2s, B1MS, B2MS
Da v4

The Dav4 and Dasv4 Azure VM-series provide up to 96 vCPUs, 384 GiBs of RAM and 2,400 GiBs of SSD-based temporary storage and feature the AMD EPYC™ 7452 processor.
The "s" variants support "Premium SSD disk storage" and have smaller temporary storage.

Cost per vCPU: $35.04
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Amd
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/series/
Tested plans: D2as v4, D2a v4
Dads v5

The Dads v5-series virtual machines are based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYCTM 7763v (Milan) processor. This processor's frequency can achieve up to 3.5GHz. The Dads v5 virtual machine sizes feature high performance, large local SSD storage (up to 3,600 GiB) and provide a better value proposition for most general-purpose workloads compared to the prior Das v4 VM generation (e.g., more local SSD capacity and faster local disk IOPS).

Cost per vCPU: $37.59
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Amd
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing
Das v5

The Das v5-series virtual machines are based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYCTM 7763v (Milan) processor. This processor's frequency can achieve up to 3.5GHz. The Das v5 VM sizes offer a combination of vCPUs and memory able to meet the requirements associated with most production workloads.
The Das v5 virtual machine sizes do not have any temporary storage thus lowering the price of entry.

Cost per vCPU: $31.39
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Amd
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing
Tested plans: D2as v5
Dd v4

The Ddv4 series virtual machines are based on the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL processor. This custom processor runs at a base speed of 2.5Ghz and can achieve up to 3.4Ghz all core turbo frequency. The Ddv4/Ddsv4 virtual machine sizes feature fast, large local SSD storage (up to 2,400 GiB) and are well suited for applications that benefit from low latency, high-speed local storage.

Cost per vCPU: $41.24
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing
Tested plans: D2ds v4
Dds v5

The Ddsv5 series virtual machines are based on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. The Ddv5 and Ddsv5 virtual machine sizes feature high performance, large local SSD storage (up to 3,600 GiB) and provide a better value proposition for most general-purpose workloads compared to the prior generation (e.g., increased scalability and an upgraded CPU class).

Cost per vCPU: $41.24
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing
Tested plans: D2s v5
Dplds v5

The Dplsv5-series and Dpldsv5-series virtual machines are based on the Arm architecture, delivering outstanding price-performance for general-purpose workloads. These virtual machines feature the Ampere® Altra® Arm-based processor operating at 3.0 GHz, which provides an entire physical core for each virtual machine vCPU. These virtual machines offer a range of vCPU sizes, up to 2 GiB of memory per vCPU, and temporary storage options able to meet the requirements of most non-memory-intensive and scale-out workloads such as microservices, small databases, caches, gaming servers, and more.

Cost per vCPU: $28.00
RAM per vCPU: 2GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Arm
Shared CPU: yes
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/dplsv5-dpldsv5-series
Tested plans: D2plds v5

Memory optimized

Eads v5

The Eads v5-series virtual machines are based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYCTM 7763v (Milan) processor. This processor has base frequency of 2.55Ghz and can achieve up to 3.7 GHz. The Eads v5 VM sizes feature up to 672 GiB of RAM, high performance, and large local SSD storage (up to 3,600 GiB.) These virtual machines are ideal for memory-intensive enterprise applications, relational database servers, and in-memory analytics workloads.

Cost per vCPU: $47.82
RAM per vCPU: 8GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Amd
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing

Compute optimized

Fs v2

The Fsv2-series virtual machines provide 2-GiB of RAM and 8 GB of local temporary storage (SSD) per vCPU(s) and are optimized for compute intensive workloads. The Fsv2-series VMs are hyper-threaded and based on the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL (second generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors), or the Intel Xeon® Platinum 8168 (Skylake) processor.
The Fsv2 VMs can be attached to Premium SSD or Ultra Disk persistent storage.

Cost per vCPU: $30.88
RAM per vCPU: 2GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing
Tested plans: F2s v2

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