In April, Microsoft announced a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines. Today, August 29, officials said these Arm-based VMs on Azure would be generally available this week, starting ...

It's been a long road, but Microsoft announced on April 4 a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines via its work with Ampere Computing. Ampere is a startup that makes server chips. Ampere ...

Azure now has two Arms: the familiar Azure Resource Manager infrastructure description language and tools, and now a family of Azure VMs running on Ampere Arm-based processors. This new hardware ...

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Microsoft Corp. today announced that Arm-based virtual machines are now ready for prime time on the Azure cloud platform, following a preview that launched in April. The company explained that the Arm ...

Following a preview in April, Microsoft this morning announced the general availability of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. The ...

Microsoft has made its new custom Azure Cobalt 100-based virtual machines (VMs) generally available. Launched on October 16, the VMs run on Microsoft's first 64-bit Arm-based Azure Cobalt 100 CPU ...

Back in 2023, Microsoft first revealed that it was working on an ARM processor named Microsoft Cobalt 100 for general-purpose computing workloads on the Microsoft Cloud. Last year, during the Build ...