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Microsoft to use AMD Epyc processors for its Azure cloud platform

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/05/2017 04:56 PM | source: | 16 comment(s)
Microsoft to use AMD Epyc processors for its Azure cloud platform

AMD has a big smile on its face today. Microsoft just announced that it will use AMD's Epyc server processors for its Azure cloud service, and that is big news alright.

Microsoft Azure has deployed AMD EPYC processors in its datacenters in advance of preview for its latest L-Series of Virtual Machines (VM) for storage optimized workloads. The Lv2 VM family will take advantage of the high-core count and connectivity support of the AMD EPYC processor.

"We are extremely excited to be partnering with Microsoft Azure to bring the power of AMD EPYC processors into their datacenter," said Scott Aylor, corporate vice president and general manager of Enterprise Solutions. "There is tremendous opportunity for users to tap into the capabilities we can deliver across storage and other workloads through the combination of AMD EPYC processors on Azure. We look forward to the continued close collaboration with Microsoft Azure on future instances throughout 2018."

 

 

Corey Sanders, director of compute, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp, said, "We're welcoming AMD's new EPYC processor to Microsoft Azure with the next generation of our L-Series Virtual Machines. The new Lv2-Series are High I/O, dense storage offerings which make EPYC perfect for Azure customers' demanding workloads. We've enjoyed a deep collaboration with AMD on our next generation open source cloud hardware design called Microsoft's Project Olympus. We think Project Olympus will be the basis for future innovation between Microsoft and AMD, and we look forward to adding more instance types in the future benefiting from the core density, memory bandwidth and I/O capabilities of AMD EPYC processors."

The Lv2-Series instances run on the AMD EPYC 7551 processor, featuring a base core frequency of 2.2 GHz and a maximum single-core turbo frequency of 3.0 GHz. With support for 128 lanes of PCIe connections per processor, AMD provides over 33 percent more connectivity than available two-socket solutions to address an unprecedented number of NVMe drives directly.

The Lv2 VMs will be available starting at eight and ranging to 64 vCPU sizes, with the largest size featuring direct access to 4TB of memory. These sizes will support Azure premium storage disks by default and will also support accelerated networking capabilities for the highest throughput of any cloud. With the unique capabilities enabled by AMD EPYC processors and Microsoft Azure, Lv2 is a perfect fit for storage-intensive workloads.

The Lv2-Series instances are based on Microsoft's Project Olympus design, first introduced just over a year ago as Microsoft's next generation hyperscale cloud hardware design. This groundbreaking design serves as a new model for open source hardware development with the Open Compute Project community.



Microsoft to use AMD Epyc processors for its Azure cloud platform




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Embra
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#5498229 Posted on: 12/05/2017 05:30 PM
Awesome! :)

warezme
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#5498246 Posted on: 12/05/2017 06:27 PM
Somebody gettin a nice Christmas bonus.

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#5498268 Posted on: 12/05/2017 07:35 PM
Great news! This might just be the kind of injection AMD need to get them into a profitable company again.

kruno
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#5498270 Posted on: 12/05/2017 07:40 PM
Well 32C/64T processor with 128 PCIE lanes , like AMD targeted cloud providers :) :)

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#5498285 Posted on: 12/05/2017 08:23 PM
This is really great news to hear of Epyc proportions ;)

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