{"id":458501,"date":"2022-08-30T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T08:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=458501"},"modified":"2022-08-30T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T08:58:52","slug":"microsoft-launches-ampere-powered-azure-virtual-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/458501-microsoft-launches-ampere-powered-azure-virtual-machines.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches Ampere-powered Azure virtual machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-virtual-machines-with-ampere-altra-arm-based-processors-generally-available\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> the general availability of Azure Virtual Machines featuring the Ampere Altra processor, based on the Arm architecture.<\/p>\n<p>From 1 September 2022, Azure customers can launch the virtual machines (VMs) in ten regions and include them in Kubernetes clusters managed with the Azure Kubernetes Service.<\/p>\n<p>The Azure Arm-based VMs feature up to 64 vCPU cores, 8GB of memory per core, and 40Gbps of networking bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p>They also feature fast local-SSD storage, and additional storage can be attached to the VMs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ampere&#8217;s Cloud Native Processors are uniquely designed to meet both the high performance and power efficiency needs of the cloud,&#8221; Ampere chief product officer Jeff Wittich said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through our strong partnership with Microsoft, Ampere Altra processors are now generally available as Azure Virtual Machines, bringing new cloud-focused processor technology to end users.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft says the Azure Arm-based VMs were engineered to run scale-out, cloud-native workloads, including open-source databases, Java and .NET applications, gaming, web, app, and media servers.<\/p>\n<p>Preview releases for Windows 11 Pro and Enterprise and Linux OS versions such as Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Debian will be available at launch.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said support for Alma and Rocky Linux would follow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The general availability of Microsoft Azure VMs on Arm marks an important milestone in redefining what is possible in cloud computing,&#8221; Arm&#8217;s senior vice president and general manager for its infrastructure line of business, Chris Bergey, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through market-leading scalable efficiency and the liberty to innovate, Arm Neoverse is enabling Azure customers to embrace the increasing diversity of workloads with better overall TCO and cleaner cloud service operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/457975-pick-n-pay-migrates-it-infrastructure-to-aws.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pick n Pay migrates IT infrastructure to AWS<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Azure Arm-based VMs feature up to 64 vCPU cores, 8GB of memory per core, local-SSD storage and 40Gbps of networking bandwidth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":438438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[81021,81029,2752,4018,31094,123,77692],"class_list":["post-458501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-ampere","tag-ampere-altra","tag-arm","tag-arm-processors","tag-azure","tag-microsoft","tag-virtual-machines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458527,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458501\/revisions\/458527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}