Today I was browsing the Azure Management portal and discovered that Microsoft Azure released a new virtual machine series based on the AMD EPYC 7452V processors that can achieve a boosted 3.35Ghz. With these new AMD processers there are 4 new series available in Azure: Dasv3-series, Dav3-series, Easv3 and the Eav3-series

Same performance, lower price!
With almost the same performance as the DSv3 and Dv3 series Intel virtual machines, these machines might be an interesting choice, especially if we do a price comparison, just 2 examples:
CPU Brand | Machine | CPU | Memory | Price per month |
Intel | D2 v3 | 2 | 8 | € 128 |
AMD | D2a v3 | 2 | 8 | € 54 |
Intel | D4s v3 | 4 | 16 | € 257 |
AMD | D4as v3 | 4 | 16 | € 109 |
If we look at the above pricing, there is a 234% price difference between AMD and Intel. I know, its not a perfect 1 on 1 comparison, but for the same price, you get the double amount of cores, and memory…
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