Microsoft has announced the General Availability of Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines (VMs), which are powered by the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C processor. These VMs offer significant improvements in CPU performance, memory capacity, and storage capabilities, making them ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as databases and data analytics.
FXv2-series VMs provide up to 50% better CPU performance compared to the previous generation, with sizes supporting up to 96 vCPUs and 1,832 GiB of memory. They also feature NVMe support for faster remote storage performance up to 400K IOPS and 11.25 GBps throughput.
Designed for demanding applications, these VMs enhance SQL Server and electronic design automation (EDA) performance, offering high memory configurations and improved I/O bandwidth.