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Azure Cobalt 100 | Microsoft’s First Fully Custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU Announced on Ignite 2024

Azure Cobalt 100 | Microsoft’s First Fully Custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU Announced on Ignite 2024

Written By Anoop C Nair
Last Updated November 22, 2024
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Let’s discuss Azure Cobalt 100 | Microsoft’s First Fully Custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU Announced on Ignite 2024. Last month, Microsoft announced the general availability of this VM. Last year, Microsoft introduced this new new VM for users.

It is a new series of virtual machines (VMs) powered by Microsoft. These VMs are designed to provide a robust and efficient solution for various cloud-native and scale-out workloads. Do you want to know to know more about Azure Cobalt 100?

This VM is the first in-house-built Armed-based processor designed for general-purpose computing. It represents a significant milestone in Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, offering enhanced performance, power efficiency, and scalability.

Microsoft received great feedback on this feature and made it generally available. In this blog post, I will help you learn more about Azure Cobalt 100, Microsoft’s First Fully Custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU, announced at Ignite 2024.

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Azure Cobalt 100 | Microsoft's First Fully Custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU Announced on Ignite 2024 - Fig.1
Azure Cobalt 100 | Microsoft’s First Fully Custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU Announced on Ignite 2024 – Fig.1

Azure Cobalt 100 | Microsoft’s First Fully Custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU Announced on Ignite 2024

As mentioned, Azure Cobalt 100 is the first fully customized arm-based VM. Users can enhance cloud-native applications’ performance, power efficiency, and scalability with this VM. Its optimization and customization across every layer of the infrastructure stack, from silicon to servers to services.

Azure Cobalt 100 | Microsoft's First Fully Custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU Announced on Ignite 2024 - Fig.2 - Creds to Rani Borker MS
Azure Cobalt 100 | Microsoft’s First Fully Custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU Announced on Ignite 2024 – Fig.2 – Creds to Rani Borker MS

Key Points of Azure Cobalt 100

The Cobalt 100-based VMs consist of our new general-purpose Dpsv6-series and Dplsv6-series and our memory-optimized Epsv6-series VM series. They offer up to 50% better price performance than our previous Arm-based VMs.

Key Points
Custom Arm-Based CPU
Performance Improvements
VM Series
Enhanced Storage and Network
Azure Cobalt 100 | Microsoft’s First Fully Custom Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU Announced on Ignite 2024 – Table.1

Availability

It has been generally available since last month. It is available in almost 14 regions, such as Canada Central, Central US, East US, Germany West Central, Japan East, Mexico Central, North Europe, Southeast Asia, Sweden Central, Switzerland North, UAE North, West Europe, and West US 2, with more regions to be added.

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Anoop C Nair has been Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for 10 consecutive years! He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is also a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. His primary focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra,

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11+ years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

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