Azure Dedicated Host (now in preview)

If you still have doubts about moving to Azure because of compliance and regulatory requirements, they will now be gone with Azure Dedicated hosts. Still in preview but ready for testing. Azure dedicated hosts are physical machines that are single-tenant configured where you can run your Linux and Windows virtual machines. This includes your own infrastructure, as well as your own maintenance policies for that host.

Visibility and control

Azure Dedicated Hosts provide visibility over the server infrastructure running your Azure Virtual Machines. You get more control over the following:

• The underlying hardware infrastructure
• Processor brand, capabilities, and more 
• Number of cores
• Type and size of the Azure Virtual Machines you want to deploy

You can mix and match different Azure Virtual Machine sizes within the same virtual machine series on a given host.

If you have any second thoughts, it is now open in preview for testing.