Microsoft is announcing the general availability of the new Da/Ea/Fav6 series AMD based virtual machines (VMs). These VMs consist of our new general purpose Dasv6-series and Dalsv6-series, our new memory optimized Easv6-series VM series, and our new compute optimized Falsv6, Fasv6 and Famsv6 VM series. They offer better performance and better price-performance than our previous generation AMD based VMs, making them an attractive option for a wide range of workloads, including data analytics, web and application servers, databases, caches, and more. These VMs come with the NVMe interface for local and remote disks. Many workloads will benefit from improvements over the previous generation of AMD based with up to:
80% better remote storage performance
400% faster local storage speeds
20% networking bandwidth improvement
45% higher NVMe SSD capacity per vCPU for Daldsv6, Dadsv6, Eadsv6-series VMs with local disks