Episode

Ask the Expert: Create Apps with Ampere-based Azure VMs

with Melanie McKenna

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Virtual Machines series featuring the Ampere Altra Arm-based processor. The new VMs are engineered to efficiently run scale-out workloads, web servers, open-source databases, cloud-native as well as rich .NET applications, Java applications, and more. Join this session to learn more about the OSs supported, available developer platforms, tools and most common customer scenarios. And don't forget to bring your questions!

Chapters

  • 00:00 - Introductions
  • 01:08 - What was part of Azure's recent Arm-based VMs announcement?
  • 01:58 - What was the recently announced support for Windows 11 on Arm Insider Preview builds in Azure, what are customers and developers looking to do with that release?
  • 03:08 - What's involved in migrating your applications and workloads to run on Arm?
  • 06:20 - What else can we expect on the roadmap you mentioned?
  • 07:00 - What type of workloads can I run on the Arm-based Azure VMs?
  • 09:50 - Can you outline a scenario where I would NOT want to use Arm-based VM?
  • 11:10 - Which operating systems are currently supported on the new Arm-based VMs?
  • 11:45 - Can you explain how to write power shell scripting to deploy applications in VM servers?
  • 12:30 - How can customers get started with Arm-based Azure VMs?
  • 13:30 - Is there documentation for these updates where I can see details?
  • 15:20 - What is the feature you are most excited about?
  • 19:00 - Is this available for mobile devs?
  • 22:08 - How do people get access to these preview VMs?
  • 23:10 - Is there any beginner level content?
  • 24:30 - Are these VMS available as Service Fabric node types?
  • 25:28 - Tips for getting started with Ampere-based Azure VMs
  • 26:40 - Closing Notes

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