Azure Virtual Machine ( VM ) Sizes

azuresupport — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:52:41 +0000

VM (Virtual Machine) sizes in Azure can be configured in Visual Studio by double clicking the relevant Role and selecting the VM size from the dropdown:

Azure has four predefined VM’s :

Small: 1 core processor, 1.7GB RAM, 250GB hard disk - $0.12 per hour
Medium: 2 core processors, 3.5GB RAM, 500GB hard disk – $0.24 per hour
Large: 4 core processors, 7GB RAM, 1000GB hard disk – $0.48 per hour
Extra large: 8 core processors, 15GB RAM, 2000GB hard disk – $0.96 per hour

Pricing is the standard Azure pricing as of April 2010

Azure To Introduce Virtual Machines [Blog]

azuresupport — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:38:10 +0000

Reports today suggest that Microsoft will introduce Remote Desktop and Virtual Machine support for Azure in March 2010.

This marks a major shift in Azure’s focus, previously Azure was intended to perform all hardware configuration chores from developers. SearchCloudComputing attributes the change to easing the migration pains for existing Windows apps, however resource isolation and allocation seems a much bigger step forward. A lot of developers who are new to clouds are surprised to find that their apps are not fully isolated from other cloud apps. For this reason Azure imposes a lot of restrictions on apps – for example the execution time of a SQL Azure query is limited to 5 minutes after which the connection is terminated and must be re-established. A VM would allocate a user a finite amount of resources to use as that app wants thus removing resource throttling.

No firm release schedule or other feature details were announced.

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Azure Virtual Machine ( VM ) Sizes

Azure To Introduce Virtual Machines [Blog]