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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen dark_n_dawn for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com Sept. 1, as early as April this year, Microsoft confirmed that Azure Virtual Machine (VM) will be able to run on ARM CPU-based processors. Microsoft now says that ARM-based virtual machines on Azure will be fully available this week (starting September 1).

Since April, Microsoft has been testing the ARM architecture to support its Azure VM virtual machine. Microsoft offers a "preview" version of ARM support on the Azure virtual machine. Microsoft claims that "hundreds" of customers have been testing ARM-based Azure VM virtual machines.

The new Azure ARM-based VM has the following configuration:

Dpsv5 series, up to 64 vCPU and 4 GiB memory, up to 208 GiBs per vCPU

Dplsv5 series, up to 64 vCPU and 2 GiB memory, up to 128 GiBs per vCPU

Epsv5 series, up to 32 vCPU and 8 GiB memory, up to 208 GiBs per vCPU

These virtual machines will support up to 40Gbps network bandwidth; standard SSD, standard HDD, advanced SSD, and hyperdisk storage can be attached to virtual machines. Azure Monitor and Azure Backup will help monitor the health of the data and the performance parameters of VM.

The ARM-driven Azure VM mentioned earlier will now enter "universal availability". Looking ahead, Azure VM with Ampere Altra ARM processors will be available in "10 Azure regions and multiple availability zones around the world".

These will be available to US users (US West 2, US Midwest, US Central, US East, US East), Europe (Western Europe, Nordic), Asia (East Asia, Southeast Asia) and Australia (eastern Australia). Microsoft has pledged to add a few more areas after September 1.

Microsoft confirmed that during the pilot phase, developers and Web administrators used VM for Web and application servers, open source databases, microservices, Java and .NET applications, games and media servers. In addition to these platforms, ARM-based VM can also be included in Kubernetes clusters. The Azure Kubernetes service (AKS) can and will accept the new VM.

CTOnews.com has learned that Azure VM, powered by ARM CPU, can reliably run Windows 11 ARM Professional and Enterprise Edition. In addition, these processors support many popular Linux distributions. In addition to Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Debian, Microsoft will gradually increase support for Alma Linux and Rocky Linux.

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