Implementing Azure Solutions

Azure virtual machine types

As soon as you start working with virtual machines, you will notice that Microsoft offers lots of different virtual machines and is still expanding its offerings. The reason why Microsoft offers so many virtual machines types is easy to explain. Microsoft needs to support different kinds of workload. virtual machines are always the basement for every Microsoft service offered out of Azure or other Microsoft Cloud services. Virtual machines are also the core component for virtual appliances in Azure such as Hadoop, Microsoft Dynamics Navision, third-party network appliances, or open source appliances.

Microsoft currently offers the following types of virtual machines:

• Basic A-series: For testing and development. ...