How AMD and Azure push the boundaries of compute
Summary
Explore how AMD EPYC-powered Azure virtual machines deliver higher performance for cloud infrastructure, from general purpose, memory optimized, and compute optimized VMs to specialized HPC options like HBv4, HX, and HBv5. Andrew Ruffin from AMD explains how to identify AMD-based Azure VMs, choose between Da, Ea, Fa, and H-series families, and understand the performance gains across fifth-gen EPYC processors, AI inference, databases, web serving, media encoding, and high performance computing workloads. Learn when to choose v7 VMs, where v6 still fits, and how AMD and Azure are pushing the boundaries…
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