Azure Announces New G Series VMs

[scottalanmiller]

From the product announcement:

New G-Series for Virtual Machines generally available. The G-Series provides more memory and more local solid state drive (SSD) storage than other Azure virtual machine (VM) sizes. In addition to massive memory and local SSD storage, the G-Series provides unparalleled computational performance using the latest Intel Xeon processor E5 v3 family, ideal for your most demanding applications.

[scottalanmiller]

Here is the VM offerings table.

VM Size	 	Cores	 	RAM	 	Storage	 	Persistent Data Disks Max	 

Standard_G1	 	2	 	28	 	412	 	    4	 
Standard_G2	 	4	 	56	 	824	 	    8	 
Standard_G3	 	8	 	112	 	1,649	 	16	 
Standard_G4	 	16	 	224	 	3,298	 	32	 
Standard_G5	 	32	 	448	 	6,596	 	64