We’re excited to announce the general availability of the latest Azure Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 General Purpose and Memory Optimized Virtual Machines (VMs) powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® 6 processor. Whether you’re modernizing enterprise databases, scaling cloud‑native applications, or consolidating large memory‑intensive workloads, Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 VMs provide a powerful foundation to run your most demanding applications.
These new VM families are designed to help customers run business-critical, performance-sensitive workloads at scale by delivering up to 20% better general compute performance, larger VM sizes and memory capacities, and significant improvements in networking and storage performance compared to previous generation v6 VMs. With three memory-to-vCPU configurations and optional local NVMe temp disks, the new VMs enable customers to right-size their infrastructure for a wide range of workloads.
Dsv7 VMs deliver up to 25% better performance for compute-bound workloads such as video transcoding, compression/decompression, and cryptography, up to 30% better performance for database workloads, and up to 25% better performance for AI pre-processing workloads, compared to Dsv6 VMs.
The new VMs also enable greater scale on Azure, supporting sizes up to 372 vCPUs with up to 2.8 TiB of memory. This allows customers to scale up larger in‑memory databases, run agentic AI workloads with larger context windows, and improve latency‑sensitive applications by minimizing cross‑node network hops.
A new generation of performance and scale on Azure
Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 VMs utilize the latest generation of Azure infrastructure and platform innovations enabling these VMs to deliver performance improvements across compute, networking, and storage. Powered by custom Intel® Xeon® 6 processors, these VMs are optimized to deliver high performance at cloud-scale with frequencies up to 4.2GHz and up to 2x higher memory bandwidth compared to previous generation v6 VMs.
Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 VMs deliver the highest networking, remote storage, and local storage specs across comparable VMs from leading hyperscalers, driven by the latest capabilities of Azure Boost:
- Higher Networking Bandwidth - Up to 400 Gbps networking bandwidth with the largest Esv7/Edsv7 size
- Faster Remote Storage - Up to 800k IOPS and 20 GBps throughput to Premium v2 SSD and Ultra Disk remote storage with the largest Esv7/Edsv7 size
- Improved Local Storage Performance - Up to 9.6M IOPS and 53 GBps throughput to local NVMe temp disk with the largest Ddsv7/Edsv7 size
Additionally, Microsoft and Intel have worked together to co-design adaptive infrastructure using Intel® Xeon® 6 processors which reduce power consumption by up to 11% for moderate workloads without impacting performance. By using power more effectively, Azure can deploy more servers within its existing datacenter footprint to quickly meet growing customer compute demands and improve efficiency.
Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 VMs include built-in AI acceleration with Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX) which accelerates AI inference workloads and enable the latest hardware-based security capabilities such as Intel® Total Memory Encryption (Intel® TME) which is enabled by default and provides enhanced protection to system memory to further secure your workloads.
Optimized for both general‑purpose and memory‑intensive workloads
Dlsv7 VMs offer a lower ratio of memory to vCPU (2 GiB per vCPU) and can reduce costs when running non-memory capacity sensitive applications. These VMs are ideal for workloads such as web front ends, application servers, API tiers, stateless microservices, CI/CD, small databases, and scale-out processing.
Dsv7 VMs offer a balance of memory to CPU (4 GiB per vCPU) and are ideal for many general computing workloads such as e-commerce systems, web applications, desktop virtualization solutions, application servers, containerized workloads, batch processing, and more.
Esv7 VMs offer a higher ratio of memory to CPU (8 GiB per vCPU) and are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as SQL and NoSQL database servers, data warehousing workloads, business intelligence applications, in-memory databases such as SAP and Redis, in-memory analytics, and agentic AI compute.
Each VM family has options with and without local NVMe temp disks. Whether you choose a VM with a local temp disk or not, you can attach remote persistent disks such as Premium Disk v1, Premium Disk v2, or Ultra Disks to the VMs.
Customers and partners are excited about the new Azure Dl/D/E v7 VMs
“Amadeus continuously aims to improve the performance of its compute layer to better serve the actors of the worldwide travel industry. With the new D/E Intel v7 series, we observe a gain of +35% and +44% in terms of transactional throughput, respectively for single-threaded and multi-threaded compute heavy OLTP workloads, compared to the D/E Intel v5 series we currently use at scale." - Didier Spezia, Director Expert, Cloud Design Authority, Amadeus
“SAS® Viya® is engineered for high‑performance data and AI, and our benchmarking on Azure E‑series v7 shows meaningful gains for customers running heavy workloads. Customers see 27–34% faster response times compared to prior generations, driven by improved CPU performance and higher disk throughput. These gains translate into faster time to value and higher productivity in machine learning, agentic AI and more.” - Craig Rubendall, Vice President, Applied Architecture and Technology, SAS
"Silk has tested the Azure Dv7/Esv7 VMs and observed performance gains of up to 45% over the previous generation. This breakthrough translates directly into faster query execution, lower latency, and more predictable uptime for customers’ most I/O-intensive workloads, whether that's transactional databases, analytics pipelines, or AI inference at scale." - Adik Sokolovski, Chief R&D Officer, Silk
"Together, Intel and Microsoft have built a silicon-to-cloud foundation to deliver a new generation of Azure virtual machines powered by Intel Xeon 6, with the performance, security, and memory capacity customers need for the next generation of AI workloads.” - Srini Krishna, Intel Fellow, Data Center Products
Availability and getting started
Azure Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 virtual machines are now generally available in Central US, with additional regions coming online soon.
Customers utilizing previous generation VMs can seamlessly migrate to Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 VMs to take advantage of higher performance and scale.
To learn more about the specifications of these VMs, visit the specification pages below:
Right now, Dlsv7, Dsv7, and Esv7 VMs up to 192 vCPU are generally available. The 248 and 372 vCPU sizes for these VM series will be generally available soon.
For pricing details, visit the Azure Virtual Machines pricing page. You can learn more about regional availability on the product availability page.
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