{"id":46735,"date":"2024-10-30T21:47:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/?p=46735"},"modified":"2025-02-06T15:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:38:25","slug":"microsoft-azure-cobalt-100-based-virtual-machines-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/microsoft-azure-cobalt-100-based-virtual-machines-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On October 16, 2024, Microsoft announced the general availability of <strong>Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines (VMs)<\/strong>. These VMs are powered by Microsoft\u2019s custom-designed Cobalt 100 ARM processors, offering significant improvements in performance and efficiency. Azure Cobalt 100-based VMs are available in multiple regions, including Canada Central, Central US, East US, Germany West Central, Japan East, and more. Additional regions will be added throughout 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/media\/2024\/10\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-10-30-Update-Website-Microsoft-Azure-Cobalt-100-based-Virtual-Machines-available_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/media\/2024\/10\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-10-30-Update-Website-Microsoft-Azure-Cobalt-100-based-Virtual-Machines-available_1.png 800w, https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/media\/2024\/10\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-10-30-Update-Website-Microsoft-Azure-Cobalt-100-based-Virtual-Machines-available_1-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/media\/2024\/10\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-10-30-Update-Website-Microsoft-Azure-Cobalt-100-based-Virtual-Machines-available_1-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/media\/2024\/10\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2024-10-30-Update-Website-Microsoft-Azure-Cobalt-100-based-Virtual-Machines-available_1-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What are Azure Cobalt 100-Based Virtual Machines?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Azure Cobalt 100-based VMs are virtual machines that run on Microsoft\u2019s custom 64-bit ARM-based Cobalt 100 CPU. These VMs are designed to optimize performance, power efficiency, and scalability for various workloads.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Key Features<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Performance:<\/strong> Up to 1.4x CPU performance, 1.5x performance on Java-based workloads, and 2x performance on web servers and .NET applications compared to previous generations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Storage and Network:<\/strong> 4x local storage IOPS with NVMe and up to 1.5x network bandwidth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>VM Series:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Dpsv6-series: General purpose.<\/li>\n<li>Dplsv6-series: General purpose.<\/li>\n<li>Epsv6-series: Memory-optimized.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Price Performance:<\/strong> Up to 50% better price performance than previous Arm-based VMs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Licensing<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Azure Cobalt 100-based VMs are available through standard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/microsoft-azure-new-policy-on-unused-subscriptions-blocking-and-deletion\/\">Azure subscription<\/a> models. Pricing varies based on the VM series and region. Customers can deploy these VMs using the Azure portal, SDKs, APIs, PowerShell, and CLI.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>More information<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can read the official announcement here: <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-cobalt-100-based-virtual-machines-are-now-generally-available\/\">https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-cobalt-100-based-virtual-machines-are-now-generally-available\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For our <strong>Microsoft page<\/strong>, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/software\/microsoft\/\">https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/software\/microsoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/contact\/\">contact us<\/a> for <strong>expert services<\/strong> on your specific Microsoft software and online services requirements and to <strong>request a quote today<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 16, 2024, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines (VMs). These VMs are powered by Microsoft\u2019s custom-designed Cobalt 100 ARM processors, offering significant improvements in performance and efficiency. Azure Cobalt 100-based VMs are available in multiple regions, including Canada Central, Central US, East US, Germany West Central, Japan East, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-azure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53143,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46735\/revisions\/53143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.im\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}