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Using Microsoft Copilot in Azure to find the best VM size for you

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Perry_Leong
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Dec 10, 2024

Selecting the right VM size can be hard, Copilot makes it easy

Co-written with Arushi Sharma, Sr. PM @ Microsoft, Azure Portal UX Overview Azure offers many Virtual Machine (VM) size options based on your workload needs.  Selecting precisely which VM size is...
Updated Dec 16, 2024
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ArneDecker1
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Apr 08, 2025

The old VM Selector was quick and easy, this new AI tool is inconvenient and probably very error-prone. Why does everything has to be AI now? Microsoft has about 20 different copilots and except for GitHub Copilot, none of them is really production-ready. If Microsoft wants to force AI onto their customers, why does it have to be like this?

Selecting the right VM size was easy, now we have the next Copilot product...