Microsoft announces the first azure vms with amd epyc

Microsoft is the first cloud storage provider to formally announce a new range of VMs (virtual machines) based on the AMD EPYC platform. These virtual machines will be referred to as the Lv2 series, which ranges from 8 to 64 cores, and offer significant DRAM and storage capabilities.

Microsoft is one of the first companies to bet on AMD EPYC

Several cloud-based service providers were interested in using the processors and the entire EPYC platform, thanks to its high computing power and cores it offers. At the time, the main statement was that cloud computing providers were in the process of determining whether a large-scale implementation was feasible, and optimizing it to better suit them and customers. Several months have passed and Microsoft is the first to make the leap, which is one of the most important companies in the world.

Azure virtual machines are basically dominated by the Intel platform and EPYC arrives to break with that hegemony. The Lv2 series uses the EPYC 7551 CPU with a capacity of up to 64 cores. This series also has some 128 available PCIe tracks. At the moment the price is unknown to be able to contract this VM.

In today's press release, it is claimed that the Lv2-series 8- to 64-core VMs will focus on database applications, with NoSQL at the top of that list, as well as an insight towards Apache Spark (AMD recently released the guidelines for Apache Spark in EPYC).

AMD says they will have more cloud-related news before the end of the year.

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