We are excited to denote the wide availability of the caller Azure Cobalt 100 Virtual Machines (VMs). These VMs tally connected Microsoft’s archetypal afloat customized Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU and correspond a important milestone successful our end-to-end attack to gathering unreality infrastructure.

Today we are announcing the wide availability of the caller Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines (VMs). These VMs tally connected Microsoft’s archetypal 64-bit Arm-based Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, which has been afloat designed in-house. They correspond a important milestone successful our travel successful designing and gathering retired our unreality infrastructure, with optimization and customization crossed each furniture of the infrastructure stack—from silicon, to servers, to services. Through vertical integration crossed hardware and software, Azure Cobalt 100-based VMs are 1 of Microsoft’s latest examples of innovating to heighten and optimize our unreality infrastructure with an end-to-end systems approach, to present the close premix of performance, powerfulness efficiency, and standard for our customers.

The Cobalt 100-based VMs dwell of our caller wide intent Dpsv6-series and Dplsv6-series and our memory-optimized Epsv6-series VM series. They connection up to 50% amended terms show than our erstwhile procreation Arm-based VMs, making them an charismatic enactment for a wide scope of scale-out and cloud-native Linux-based workloads, including information analytics, web and exertion servers, unfastened root databases, caches, and more. 

The caller Azure Cobalt 100-based VMs present starring show crossed assorted workloads compared to erstwhile generations of Azure Arm-based VMs: up to 1.4x CPU performance, up to 1.5x show connected Java-based workloads, and up to 2x show connected web servers, .NET applications, and in-memory cache applications compared to the erstwhile procreation Azure Arm-based VMs. These VMs besides enactment 4x section retention IOPS (with NVMe) and up to 1.5x web bandwidth compared to the erstwhile procreation Azure Arm-based VMs.

The caller VMs are broadly disposable successful Canada Central, Central US, East US 2, East US, Germany West Central, Japan East, Mexico Central, North Europe, Southeast Asia, Sweden Central, Switzerland North, UAE North, West Europe, and West US 2. The fig of regions volition proceed to grow successful 2024 and beyond with Australia East, Brazil South, France Central, India Central, South Central US, UK South, West US 3, and West US coming soon.

Customer adoption and scenarios

We person been moving with respective interior and outer customers during the preview period. For example, IC3, the level that powers billions of lawsuit conversations successful Microsoft Teams, is serving its increasing lawsuit basal much efficiently, achieving up to 45% amended show connected Cobalt 100-based VMs.

We’re besides delivering Cobalt 100-based VMs to galore of our autarkic bundle vendor (ISV) partners offering level arsenic a work (PaaS) and bundle arsenic a work (SaaS) solutions connected Microsoft Azure.

“The Cobalt 100, Microsoft Azure’s caller Arm-based processor, represents a immense measurement guardant for optimizing show and productivity. Cadence and Microsoft’s collaboration helps our communal customers tackle the demands of giga-scale compute that advanced-node silicon plan demands. The Cobalt 100 helps our thousands of physics plan automation (EDA) and systems customers conscionable their ever-increasing demands for throughput to velocity time-to-market.” —Mahesh Turaga, Vice President (VP) of Cloud Business Development, Cadence

 “We are truly excited astir the caller Cobalt 100 VMs. We are making them the superior level for our Databricks SQL Serverless offering connected Azure, arsenic they connection outstanding ratio and let america to present important price-performance improvements to our customers. Customers utilizing our Azure Databricks classical Jobs offering volition besides greatly payment from Cobalt VMs by selecting them for their Jobs clump nodes, achieving noticeable show improvements portion keeping operating costs down.” —Michael Kiermaier, VP of Business Strategy and Operations, Databricks

“At Elastic, we are driving innovation and cost-efficiency by enabling customers to leverage our Search AI-powered observability, security, and hunt solutions connected Arm-based architecture. Azure Virtual Machines with Cobalt 100 Arm CPUs enables Elastic to present amended throughput and up to 37% improved show compared to Azure’ erstwhile procreation Arm based VMs.”  —Uri Cohen, Vice President, Product Management, Elastic

“At Rescale, our ngo is to elevate innovation by providing the champion tools successful precocious show computing, data, and AI to organizations of each size to present engineering and technological breakthroughs that enrich humanity. We person tested the Azure Cobalt 100 VMs to powerfulness our high-performance computing level and recovered it to present astir a 40% betterment successful show compared to Azure’s erstwhile procreation Arm-based VMs. We look guardant to upgrading our Azure infrastructure to these caller VMs and connection comparable show improvements to our customers truthful they tin tackle analyzable challenges with greater velocity and efficiency.” —Adam McKenzie, Chief Technology Officer, Rescale 

“Siemens EDA continues to grow its concern with Microsoft to make innovative solutions for our communal silicon and physics systems customers. Our collaboration astir Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based VMs moving analog, standard-cell, memory, and integer verification workloads has demonstrated compelling show and economical benefits. The wide availability of these caller VMs marks an important milestone for the industry, highlighting its fast-growing reliance connected continuously advancing hardware and bundle platforms optimized for precocious throughput and efficiency.” —Craig Johnson, Vice President, Siemens EDA Strategy

“We person extensively tested Azure’s caller Cobalt 100 VMs and compared them to the erstwhile procreation Arm VMs connected Azure utilizing Snowflake workloads. We’re thrilled with the important improvements successful performance. And now, we’re excited to follow these latest Cobalt 100 VMs and stock that show betterment with our customers!” —Gabe Bryant, Senior Manager, Snowflake

“In the look of unprecedented compute and representation demands driven by progressively blase systems, designers are leveraging the unreality to standard their computing resources. Our adjacent collaboration with Microsoft Azure facilitates the adoption of Arm architecture-based compute resources by providing customers with industry-leading, AI-driven EDA tools enabled connected the Azure unreality to assistance them code the escalating workload demands.” —Sanjay Bali, elder vice president of EDA strategy and merchandise absorption astatine Synopsys

“Templafy relies connected the stableness and scalability of Microsoft Azure to tally our papers procreation level for enterprises worldwide, and we’re excited astir the caller Azure Cobalt 100 VMs. After valuation we’ve observed important show improvements, including astir 25% higher throughput and 35% little CPU usage compared to Azure’s erstwhile procreation Arm-based VMs. We look guardant to harnessing these advancements to heighten our platform’s show and present adjacent amended experiences for our customers erstwhile it comes to their captious concern documents.”  —Marco van Kimmenade, Director of Engineering, Templafy

Synergy with our exertion partners

We worth the collaboration with our exertion partners.

“The Cobalt 100 processor is simply a fantastic illustration of however Arm-based silicon, supported by a robust bundle ecosystem, is addressing the increasing compute complexity of modern infrastructure,” said Mohamed Awad, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Infrastructure Business, Arm. “Following years of collaboration with Microsoft to bring Arm-based VMs to market, the wide availability of Cobalt 100 marks an important milestone successful our partnership, and demonstrates the power, ratio and flexibility of Arm Compute Subsystems successful driving the workloads of the future.”

The travel to Arm: Embracing innovation and lawsuit benefits

Microsoft has a longstanding past of contributing to Arm architecture and integrating Arm technology. This acquisition has enabled america to make important manufacture standards that prepared the Arm architecture for datacenter-scale computing. We person besides been moving intimately with Arm connected manufacture initiatives specified arsenic ServerReady and SystemReady and received manufacture designation for some initiatives. Our travel into Arm-based VMs is based connected a imaginativeness to present superior price-performance and powerfulness efficiency. The Cobalt 100-based VMs embody this imaginativeness by offering these benefits. By embracing Arm-based VMs, we person been capable to connection our customers a unsocial operation of show and outgo effectiveness.

Developer ecosystem 

The developer ecosystem for Arm continues to thrive and has seen tremendous advancement successful the past mates of years. Major developer platforms and languages specified arsenic C++, .NET, and Java supply Arm-native versions. We person invested successful Arm-specific optimizations for each of these platforms and languages truthful we’re afloat leveraging the capabilities of the Arm architecture.  

The larger ecosystem has embraced Arm with galore fashionable infrastructure and deployment solutions present disposable with autochthonal Arm support. GitHub Actions, GitHub’s continuous integration and continuous transportation (CI/CD) workflow engine, is an integral portion of galore developers’ workflows and utilized to continuously build, test, and deploy apps. This is present disposable for Arm successful 2 flavors—self-hosted runners that tin beryllium hosted connected an Arm VM oregon connected section Arm hardware, and GitHub-hosted runners. 

Containers are a fashionable deployment people for galore reasons: a streamlined improvement workflow, isolation and security, businesslike assets utilization, portability, and reproducibility. Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) present supports the instauration of Arm cause nodes arsenic good arsenic mixing x86 and Arm architecture nodes wrong a cluster. 

Specifications

You tin prime from a scope of Azure Virtual Machines of 3 representation ratios for a fixed vCPU size, giving you the flexibility to take the configuration that works champion for your workloads successful presumption of CPU show and representation needs. All these VM bid are disposable with and without section disks truthful that you tin deploy the enactment that champion fits your workload.  

• The caller Dpsv6-series and Dpdsv6-series general-purpose VMs connection up to 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of RAM (4:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio). They are perfect for scale-out workloads, cloud-native solutions similar AKS, tiny to mean open-source databases, exertion servers, and web servers. Arm developers tin usage these VMs successful CI/CD pipelines, development, and trial scenarios.
• The caller Dplsv6-series and Dpldsv6-series VMs supply up to 96 vCPUs and 192 GiB of RAM (2:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio). They are cleanable for media encoding, tiny databases, gaming servers, microservices, and workloads that don’t request precocious RAM per vCPU.  
• The caller Epsv6-series and Epdsv6-series memory-optimized VMs connection up to 96 vCPUs and 672 GiB of RAM (up to 8:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio). These VMs are designed for memory-intensive workloads specified arsenic ample databases, in-memory caching applications, and information analytics.

The caller virtual machines enactment each distant disk types specified arsenic Standard SSD, Standard HDD, Premium SSD and Ultra Disk storage. To larn much astir assorted disk types and their determination availability, delight notation to Azure managed disk type. Disk retention is billed separately from virtual machines. You tin deploy these caller VMs utilizing existing methods including the Azure portal, SDKs, APIs, PowerShell, and the command-line interface (CLI). 

You tin larn much astir the caller Azure Cobalt 100-based VMs by visiting the specification pages: Dpsv6-series, Dpdsv6-series, Dplsv6-series, Dpldsv6-series, Epsv6-series, Epdsv6-series.   

Pricing 

To larn much astir the pricing of Azure Cobalt 100-based VMs, delight sojourn the Azure Virtual Machines pricing and Pricing calculator pages. 

You tin besides instrumentality vantage of Reserved Instances, Azure savings plan for compute, and Spot Virtual Machines to little your costs. Reserved VM Instances tin trim costs and amended your fund forecasting done upfront one-year oregon three-year commitments. For a constricted time, you tin prevention up to 15% much erstwhile you acquisition one-year Azure Reserved Virtual Machine (VM) Instances for prime Linux VMs. This connection is disposable betwixt from October 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025. See here for much details. The Azure savings program for compute gives you the flexibility to prevention crossed aggregate Azure services, including Azure VMs. Spot Virtual Machines tin importantly trim the outgo of moving successful Azure and further optimize your unreality walk for workloads that tin tolerate interruptions and person flexible execution time.

A caller epoch of terms show and powerfulness efficiency

The wide availability of Azure Cobalt 100-based VMs marks the opening of a caller epoch successful Azure’s infrastructure. With our customized silicon program, we are delivering exceptional terms show and powerfulness ratio to our customers. We are excited to spot the interaction of these innovations connected our customers’ businesses and we look guardant to bringing adjacent amended solutions to our customers successful the future.

Thank you for joining america connected this breathtaking journey.

For questions, delight spell to Azure Support and our experts volition beryllium determination to assistance you. 

Additional resources 

• Arm blog