Microsoft Azure Becomes First Global Cloud Provider to Deploy AMD EPYC™
December 05 2017 - 9:00AM
— Microsoft’s Project Olympus Hardware Design
Powered by the AMD EPYC Processor Now Deployed in Azure —
AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced the first public cloud instances
powered by the AMD EPYC™ processor. Microsoft Azure has deployed
AMD EPYC processors in its datacenters in advance of preview for
its latest L-Series of Virtual Machines (VM) for storage optimized
workloads. The Lv2 VM family will take advantage of the high-core
count and connectivity support of the AMD EPYC processor.
“We are extremely excited to be partnering with Microsoft Azure
to bring the power of AMD EPYC processors into their datacenter,”
said Scott Aylor, corporate vice president and general manager of
Enterprise Solutions. “There is tremendous opportunity for users to
tap into the capabilities we can deliver across storage and other
workloads through the combination of AMD EPYC processors on Azure.
We look forward to the continued close collaboration with Microsoft
Azure on future instances throughout 2018.”
Corey Sanders, director of compute, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft
Corp, said, “We’re welcoming AMD’s new EPYC processor to Microsoft
Azure with the next generation of our L-Series Virtual Machines.
The new Lv2-Series are High I/O, dense storage offerings which make
EPYC perfect for Azure customers’ demanding workloads. We’ve
enjoyed a deep collaboration with AMD on our next generation open
source cloud hardware design called Microsoft’s Project Olympus. We
think Project Olympus will be the basis for future innovation
between Microsoft and AMD, and we look forward to adding more
instance types in the future benefiting from the core density,
memory bandwidth and I/O capabilities of AMD EPYC processors.”
The Lv2-Series instances run on the AMD EPYC 7551 processor,
featuring a base core frequency of 2.2 GHz and a maximum
single-core turbo frequency of 3.0 GHz. With support for 128 lanes
of PCIe connections per processor, AMD provides over 33 percent
more connectivity than available two-socket solutions1 to address
an unprecedented number of NVMe drives directly.
The Lv2 VMs will be available starting at eight and ranging to
64 vCPU sizes, with the largest size featuring direct access to 4TB
of memory. These sizes will support Azure premium storage disks by
default and will also support accelerated networking capabilities
for the highest throughput of any cloud. With the unique
capabilities enabled by AMD EPYC processors and Microsoft Azure,
Lv2 is a perfect fit for storage-intensive workloads.
The Lv2-Series instances are based on Microsoft’s Project
Olympus design, first introduced just over a year ago as
Microsoft’s next generation hyperscale cloud hardware design. This
groundbreaking design serves as a new model for open source
hardware development with the Open Compute Project community.
Additional Resources
- Microsoft Azure Blog on AMD EPYC
- AMD EPYC on AMD.com
- Follow AMD datacenter developments on
Twitter @AMDServer
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1The AMD EPYC processor supports up to 128 lanes of PCIe Gen 3
(both 1 socket and 2 socket configurations) on every product. The
Intel Scalable Processor supports a maximum of 48 lanes of PCIe Gen
3 per CPU and 20 lanes in the I/O chip. (max of 68 lanes on 1
socket and 96 lanes on 2 socket) on all CPU’s.
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