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
Reduce costs—up to 72 percent compared to pay-as-you-go prices—with term pricing through Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances. Re-use your on-premises licences to run Windows Server VMs on Azure with Azure Hybrid Benefit and combine with reserved instances to save up to 80 percent. Take advantage of spot pricing on Azure VMs and scale sets to run interruptible workloads at deep discounts compared to pay-as-you-go rates. Optimise your cloud spend with Azure Cost Management. Get three more years of free extended security updates for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 when you migrate to Azure.
Discover why Azure is the most cost-effective cloud for Windows Server
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.
Ensure compliance and deploy applications to production faster across your entire business with Azure Blueprints. Get recommendations for high availability, security, performance and cost for all of your VMs with Azure Advisor. Safeguard your data against ransomware with Azure Backup. Proactively identify issues and gain intelligent insights with Azure Monitor. Reserve compute capacity ahead of VM deployments with on-demand capacity reservations.
Control your resources with Azure Policy
Extend the capacity of your datacentre with Azure VMs and access on-demand, high-performance computing capabilities in the cloud. Develop, test, run and operate hybrid cloud applications consistently across Azure and your on-premises environment. Adopt simple and cost-effective cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions to avoid business interruptions. Meet regulatory and policy requirements for your VMs by developing in Azure and deploying on premises with Azure Stack.
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Set up highly available, centrally managed and scalable services for computationally intensive, big data and container workloads with Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Reduce cost and time to reimage your VMs for your stateless applications with Ephemeral OS disks. Manage global replication and sharing of images at scale with shared image galleries. Use generation 2 VMs to improve boot and installation times. Get extreme computing power for your artificial intelligence (AI) and remote visualisation workloads with GPU-enabled VMs.
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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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