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Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines

Azure Virtual Machines is Microsoft’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering that provides on-demand, general-purpose virtual machines with configurable CPU, memory, storage, and networking.

Key capabilities:

  • Custom images & OS choice — Windows, Linux, custom VM images
  • Instance sizes & families — from burstable to GPU/High-Mem/High-CPU
  • Persistent storage — Managed Disks (Premium SSD, Ultra Disk)
  • Networking — VNet, subnets, NSGs, UDRs, public IPs, Load Balancer, Azure Firewall
  • Autoscaling & VM Scale Sets for horizontal scaling
  • Identity & Security — Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault, policies
  • Monitoring & Logging — Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, diagnostics

Azure VMs are suitable for stateful services, legacy workloads, databases, container hosts, HPC, and scenarios requiring kernel-level access and predictable resource allocation. They integrate with the broader Azure ecosystem (storage, networking, security, governance).

8 vCPU
32 GB RAM
512 GB SSD
60 Regions

$155

Monthly Price

Starting price

10 TB

Bandwidth

Monthly transfer

25 Gbps

Network

Port speed

99.99%

SLA Uptime

Guaranteed

Features

Platform capabilities

Availability Zones
Spot VMs
Reserved Instances
Dedicated Hosts
Add-on
Confidential Computing
Add-on

Managed Services

Additional platform offerings

Kubernetes
Databases
Load Balancers
Object Storage
CDN
DNS
VPN
Firewall
Backups
Monitoring
Serverless
Container Registry

Security & Compliance

Enterprise-grade protection

Security Features

DDoS Protection
Firewall
VPC
SSH Keys
2FA
Encryption at Rest
Encryption in Transit
IAM
Audit Logs
Security Groups

Compliance

SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001 GDPR Compliance CCPA CompliancePCI DSSHIPAAFedRAMP

Regions

60 locations worldwide

East US
eastus
USA
West Europe
westeurope
Netherlands
North Europe
northeurope
Ireland
UK South
uksouth
UK
Southeast Asia
southeastasia
Singapore

Pricing

Monthly

$155

$0.22/hour

30 day free trial
$200 for 30 days

Billing Options

HourlyMonthlyReservedSpot

Additional Costs

Bandwidth$0.087/GB
Managed Disks$0.05/GB-mo
Public IP$3/mo

Specifications

vCPU8
CPU Typededicated
Architecturex86_64
Memory32 GB
Storage512 GB SSD
Bandwidth10 TB
Network25 Gbps
IPv41 included
GPU Available
NVIDIA A100 • 40GB • 1x

Operating Systems

UbuntuDebianCentOSRocky LinuxWindows ServerFreeBSD
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