The AMD-based VMs use Azure Boost, Microsoft’s system for offloading infrastructure tasks from the host CPU to specialized ...

Here's what to do (and what not to do) when you want to move a workload to the cloud using a virtual machine on someone else's metal. There are many reasons to move workloads to the cloud and there ...

Microsoft's new Azure Container Instances (ACI) introduces a way to spin up workloads with the precise amount of CPU cores and memory needed on demand, use them for as little as a few seconds and ...

Back when Microsoft first launched Azure’s virtual machines, there were only a handful of default server sizes you could use. The question you had to ask yourself then was a simple one: Is there a ...

Everything you need to know about how to select, deploy, optimize and more when it comes to managing your virtual machines in Microsoft Azure. In last month's column I covered the basic step-by-step ...

Azure’s G-class VMs are Microsoft’s highest-end machines in the Azure cloud — and hence also its most expensive. Running Windows, those VMs top out at $7,180/month. Now, Microsoft is launching a ...

Microsoft and Google have announced updates to their respective virtual-machine (VM) instances for highly confidential information to be processed in Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine.