Microsoft is announcing the general availability of the new Cobalt 100 Arm-based virtual machines (VMs). The Cobalt 100 VMs consist of our new general purpose Dpsv6-series and Dplsv6-series and our memory optimized Epsv6-series VM series. They offer up to 50% better price-performance than our previous generation Arm-based VMs, making them an attractive option for a wide range of scale-out and cloud native Linux-based workloads, including data analytics, web and application servers, open source databases, caches, and more.
The Azure Cobalt 100 VMs deliver up to 1.4x CPU performance, up to 1.5x performance on Java-based workloads and up to 2x performance on web servers, .NET applications and in-memory cache applications compared to the previous generation Azure Arm-based VMs. These VMs also support 4x local storage IOPS (with NVMe) and up to 1.5x network bandwidth compared to the previous generation Azure Arm-based VMs.
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