VMs based on Azure Cobalt 100
The public may now easily access the new Azure Cobalt 100-based VMs. These virtual machines are powered by the 64-bit Arm-based Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, which Microsoft first built completely in-house. They represent a significant turning point in the development and design of cloud architecture by optimizing and personalizing every tier of the infrastructure stack, from silicon to servers to services. One of Microsoft's most recent innovations in enhancing and optimizing its cloud infrastructure using an end-to-end systems approach is Azure Cobalt 100-based virtual machines (VMs), which combine hardware and software vertically to give its customers the best possible balance of performance, power efficiency, and scalability.This includes its new general-purpose Dpsv6-series and Dplsv6-series virtual machines, as well as its memory-optimized Epsv6-series VMs. Because they offer up to 50% better pricing performance than our previous generation Arm-based virtual machines, they are an attractive alternative for a range of scale-out and cloud-native Linux-based workloads, including data analytics, web and application servers, open source databases, caches, and more.
Evaluation of new Azure Cobalt 100-based virtual machines vs Azure Arm-based virtual machines
On a range of workloads, the new Azure Cobalt 100-based virtual machines outperform previous generations of Azure Arm-based virtual machines. They can achieve up to 1.4x CPU performance, up to 1.5x performance on Java-based workloads, and up to 2x performance on web servers,.NET applications, and in-memory cache applications. These virtual machines can manage up to 1.5 times network bandwidth and 4 times local storage IOPS (with NVMe) in comparison to the previous generation of Azure Arm-based virtual machines.Accessibility
West Europe, Japan East, Mexico Central, Canada Central, Central US, East US 2, East US, Germany, Southeast Asia, Sweden Central, Switzerland North, UAE North, and North Europe The new virtual machines are generally available in West Central and West US 2. In 2024 and after, the list will be expanded to include Australia East, Brazil South, France Central, India Central, South Central US, UK South, West US 3, and West US.Situations and consumer acceptability
Azure collaborated with a number of internal and external customers throughout the preview period. For example, IC3, which powers billions of customer conversations in Microsoft Teams, is enhancing customer support for its growing customer base by as much as 45% on Cobalt 100-based virtual machines (VMs).Additionally, it offers Cobalt 100-based virtual machines (VMs) to many of its independent software vendor (ISV) partners who use Microsoft Azure to provide platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS).
On the road to Arm, embracing innovation and consumer advantages
Microsoft has a history of integrating Arm technology and contributing to Arm architecture. This expertise enabled it to build important industry standards that prepared the Arm architecture for computing at the scale of datacenters. In addition, it has been working closely with Arm on industry initiatives like as SystemReady and ServerReady, both of which have received recognition from the industry.Its entry into the Arm-based virtual machine market aims to provide outstanding price-performance and power efficiency. The Cobalt 100-based virtual computers (VMs) embody this optimism due to these benefits. With the use of Arm-based virtual machines, Microsoft customers may now take advantage of a special combination of performance and affordability.
Developers' ecosystem
Arm's developer community continues to flourish despite notable developments in recent years. There are Arm-native implementations of popular programming languages and platforms including Java, C++, and.NET. To maximize the potential of the Arm architecture, it has invested in Arm-specific optimizations for each of these platforms and languages.With native Arm compatibility now available in a number of popular infrastructure and deployment solutions, Arm has gained traction in the wider ecosystem. Many developers use GitHub Actions, the company's continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflow engine, to continuously build, test, and deploy projects. Arm now offers both self-hosted and GitHub-hosted runners that may be deployed on local Arm hardware or in an Arm virtual machine.
Containers are a common deployment target because to their effective resource utilization, portability, repeatability, isolation and security, and quicker development process. With Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Arm agent nodes and x86 and Arm architectural nodes may now be combined in a cluster.
Qualities
You may pick from a range of memory ratios for a particular vCPU size with Azure Virtual Machines, enabling you to choose a configuration that best fits your workloads in terms of CPU performance and memory needs. All of these virtual machine series are available with or without local disks, allowing you to adopt the option that best fits your workflow.The new Dpsv6-series and Dpdsv6-series general-purpose virtual machines contain up to 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of RAM, with a memory-to-vCPU ratio of 4:1. They work well with web servers, application servers, small to medium open-source databases, scale-out workloads, and cloud-native systems like AKS. These virtual machines (VMs) are available to Arm developers for use in CI/CD, testing, and development pipelines.
The new Dplsv6-series and Dpldsv6-series virtual machines have a memory-to-vCPU ratio of 2:1 and come with 192 GiB of RAM and up to 96 vCPUs. They are perfect for applications that don't need a lot of RAM per virtual CPU, gaming servers, microservices, media transcoding, and tiny databases.
672 gigabytes of random-access memory (up to 8:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio) and up to 96 virtual CPUs are features of the new memory-optimized virtual machines (VMs) from the Epsv6 and Epdsv6 series. These virtual machines are designed for high-memory operations, such as huge databases, in-memory caching applications, and data analytics.
The latest virtual machines support a variety of remote disk types, including Standard SSD, Standard HDD, Premium SSD, and Ultra Disk storage. For further details on the various disk types and their availability by region, see Azure managed disk type. In contrast to virtual computers, disk storage has a distinct cost. Deploying these new virtual machines may be done using the Azure site, PowerShell, SDKs, CLI, and APIs.
The price
More details on the price of Azure Cobalt 100-based virtual machines may be found on the Azure Virtual Machines pricing and pricing calculator websites.Additionally, Spot Virtual Machines, Reserved Instances, and Azure's compute savings plan may help you save costs. Reserved virtual machine instances may improve your budget projections and save costs since they are paid for in advance for one or three years. For a limited period, get 15% off Azure Reserved Virtual Machine (VM) Instances for a year for certain Linux VMs.
This deal is available from October 1, 2024, until March 31, 2025. Details are available here. The Azure savings plan for compute lets you decide how much you want to spend on Azure virtual machines and other Azure services. Spot Virtual Machines may significantly reduce the cost of running in Azure and further optimize your cloud expenditures for applications with variable execution durations and the ability to resist interruptions.
Pricing performance and power efficiency in a new age
A new era in Azure's architecture has started with the deployment of virtual machines (VMs) based on Azure Cobalt 100. It offers exceptional pricing, performance, and power efficiency to its customers via its unique silicon program.
.jpg)
0 Comments