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What are the instance types offered by Azure?

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What are the instance types offered by Azure?

Azure offers a number of different instance types based on what needs they fulfill. 

General Purpose - CPU to memory ratio is balanced. Provides low to medium traffic web servers, small to medium databases and is ideal for testing and development

Largest instance size: Standard_D64_v3

256 GB Memory and 1600 GB SSD Temp Storage

Compute Optimized - High CPU to memory ratio. Best suited for medium traffic web servers, application servers, batch processes, and network appliances

Largest instance size: Standard_F72s_V2

144 GB Memory and 576 GB SSD Temp Storage

Memory-Optimized - High memory to CPU ratio. Best suited for relational database servers, in-memory analytics, and medium to large caches

Largest instance size: Standard_M128m

3892 GB Memory and 14,336 GB SSD Temp Storage

Storage Optimized - Provides high disk IO and throughput. Best suited for Big Data, NoSQL and SQL Databases

Largest instance size: Standard_L32s

256 GB Memory and 5630 GB SSD Temp Storage

GPU - Virtual Machines that specialize in heavy graphic rendering and video editing. It also helps with model training and inferencing with deep learning

Largest instance size: Standard_ND24rs

448 GB Memory and 2948 GB SSD Temp Storage

4 GPUs and 96 GB Memory

High-Performance Compute - Provides Azure’s fastest and powerful CPU virtual machines with optional high throughput interfaces

Largest instance size: Standard_L32s

224 GB Memory and 2000 GB SSD Temp Storage

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