The term Azure series identifies the available performance levels of an IaaS deployment (provision of a cloud service and/or a VM). The performance levels (that is, the instance) generally differ in the number of CPU cores, the amount of memory, and the maximum size of the data disk.
Some performance levels or even entire Azure series are also defined by special hardware equipment.
Microsoft currently offers the following Azure series:
- A-series: The A-series supports the full feature scope of Azure VMs for a wide range of workloads.
- Basic A: Light version of the A-series (only available for instances A0-A4). Designed for development and testing starter workloads.
- A-series (compute intensive): High-end version of ...
