Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server.
Deploy virtual machines featuring up to 416 vCPUs and 12 TB of memory. Get up to 3.7 million local storage IOPS per VM. Take advantage of up to 30 Gbps Ethernet and cloud’s first deployment of 200 Gbps InfiniBand.
Keep your budget in check with low-cost, per-second billing. You only pay for the compute time you use
Use Virtual Machine Scale Sets to build scalable applications. Reduce your cloud spend with Azure Spot Virtual Machines and reserved instances. Build your private cloud with Azure Dedicated Host. Run mission-critical applications in Azure to increase resiliency.
Discover the broad range of compute options that Microsoft Azure offers and tap into a diversified portfolio of Azure virtual machines able to accommodate every workload, including the applications you create. In this video, you will get an overview of the Azure core compute capabilities and gain confidence in the security and management offerings that Azure provides.
Organisations migrate mission-critical workloads to the cloud to increase compliance, improve their security posture and capitalise on operational advantages. Hear real-world examples and learn best practices.
Develop dynamically scalable applications with Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Rightsize your infrastructure based on demand while optimising costs. Simplify management and increase the resiliency of your business-critical applications at scale.
Protect your VMs against bootkits, rootkits and kernel-level malware with trusted launch. Safeguard your VM data while in use with Azure confidential computing. Monitor your workloads and find and fix vulnerabilities with Azure Security Center. Meet a broad set of international and industry-specific compliance standards, including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP and SOC 2. Deploy your Azure VMs on Azure Dedicated Host, a physical server used only by your organisation. Take advantage of a broad range of VM service-level agreements (SLAs), from single-instance VMs at 99.9 percent, up to 99.99 percent for VMs deployed across two or more Azure Availability Zones.
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For more details, visit the Windows and Linux VM pricing pages. Identify the best VM for your workloads with the virtual machines selector. Use this pricing calculator to configure and estimate the costs of your Azure VMs.
Matt Douglas, Chief Enterprise Architect, Sentara Healthcare"With Azure, we make decisions based on what we want to spend on the application, without restricting performance. As a result, we've seen a 30 percent reduction in infrastructure costs."
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