'E' family memory optimized VM size series

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06/06/2024

Applies to: ✔️ Linux VMs ✔️ Windows VMs ✔️ Flexible scale sets ✔️ Uniform scale sets

The 'E' family of VM size series are one of Azure's memory-optimized VM instances. They're designed for memory-intensive workloads, such as large databases, big data analytics, and enterprise applications that require significant amounts of RAM to maintain high performance. Equipped with high memory-to-core ratios, E-series VMs support applications and services that benefit from faster data access and more efficient data processing capabilities. This makes them particularly well-suited for scenarios involving in-memory databases and extensive data processing tasks where ample memory is crucial for optimal performance.

Workloads and use cases

Memory-Intensive Workloads: E-family VMs are for workloads that demands a large memory footprint to efficiently handle tasks, such as simulations, large-scale computations in scientific research, or financial risk modeling.

Large Databases and SQL Servers: E-family VMs are ideal for hosting large relational databases like SQL Server and NoSQL databases that benefit from high memory capacities for improved performance in data processing and transaction handling.

Enterprise Applications: E-family VMs are suitable for resource-intensive enterprise applications, including large-scale ERP and CRM systems, where the availability of ample memory is crucial for managing complex transactions and user loads.

Big Data Applications: E-family VMs are effective for big data analytics applications that need to process vast amounts of data in memory to speed up analysis and insights generation.

In-Memory Computing: E-family VMs are great for in-memory databases (e.g., SAP HANA) that require large amounts of RAM to keep the entire dataset in memory, allowing for ultra-fast data processing and query responses.

Data Warehousing: E-family VMs provide the necessary resources for data warehousing solutions that handle and analyze large datasets, improving query performance and reducing response times.

Series in family

Ev5 and Esv5-series

The Ev5 and Esv5-series virtual machines run on Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8473C (Sapphire Rapids), or Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper threaded configuration, providing a better value proposition for most general-purpose workloads. This new processor features an all core turbo clock speed of 3.5 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512). They also support Intel® Deep Learning Boost. Featuring up to 672 GiB of RAM, these virtual machines are ideal for memory-intensive enterprise applications, relational database servers, and in-memory analytics workloads. The Ev5 and Esv5-series provide a better value proposition for workloads that don't require local temp disk. For information about similar virtual machines with local disk, see Edv5 and Edsv5-series VMs.

View the full Ev5 and Esv5-series page.

Part	Quantity ^{Count ^Units}	Specs ^{SKU ID, Performance ^Units, etc.}
Processor	2 - 104^vCores	Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8473C (Sapphire Rapids) Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake)
Memory	16 - 672^GiB
Data Disks	4 - 64^Disks	3750 - 120000^IOPS / 85 - 4000^MBps
Network	2 - 8^NICs	12500 - 100000^Mbps
Accelerators	None

Edv5 and Edsv5-series

The Edv5 and Edsv5-series Virtual Machines run on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper threaded configuration, providing a better value proposition for most general-purpose workloads. This new processor features an all core turbo clock speed of 3.5 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512). They also support Intel® Deep Learning Boost. The Edv5 and Edsv5-series feature up to 672 GiB of RAM. These virtual machines are ideal for memory-intensive enterprise applications, relational database servers, and in-memory analytics workloads. These VMs also feature fast and large local SSD storage (up to 3,900 GiB).

View the full Edv5 and Edsv5-series page.

Part	Quantity ^{Count ^Units}	Specs ^{SKU ID, Performance ^Units, etc.}
Processor	2 - 104^vCores	Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake)
Memory	16 - 672^GiB
Data Disks	4 - 64^Disks	3750 - 450000^IOPS / 85 - 4000^MBps
Network	2 - 8^NICs	12500 - 100000^Mbps
Accelerators	None

Easv5 and Eadsv5-series

The Easv5-series and Eadsv5-series utilize AMD's 3rd Generation EPYC^TM 7763v processor in a multi-threaded configuration with up to 256 MB L3 cache, increasing customer options for running most memory optimized workloads. These virtual machines offer a combination of vCPUs and memory to meet the requirements associated with most memory-intensive enterprise applications, such as relational database servers and in-memory analytics workloads.

View the full Easv5 and Eadsv5-series page.

Part	Quantity ^{Count ^Units}	Specs ^{SKU ID, Performance ^Units, etc.}
Processor	2 - 112^vCores	AMD EPYC^TM 7763v
Memory	16 - 672^GiB
Data Disks	4 - 64^Disks	3750 - 450000^IOPS / 125 - 4000^MBps
Network	2 - 8^NICs	12500 - 50000^Mbps
Accelerators	None

Easv6 and Eadsv6-series

The Easv6-series and Eadsv6-series utilize AMD's 4th Generation EPYCTM 9004 processor in a multi-threaded configuration with up to 320 MB L3 cache, increasing customer options for running most memory optimized workloads. These virtual machines offer up to 96 vCPU and 672 GiB of RAM. This size is ideal for memory-intensive enterprise applications, data warehousing, business intelligence, in-memory analytics, and financial transactions.

View the full Easv6 and Eadsv6-series page.

Part	Quantity ^{Count ^Units}	Specs ^{SKU ID, Performance ^Units, etc.}
Processor	2 - 96^vCores	AMD EPYC^TM 9004
Memory	16 - 672^GiB
Data Disks	4 - 32^Disks	4000 - 1800000^IOPS / 90 - 8640^MBps
Network	2 - 8^NICs	12500 - 40000^Mbps
Accelerators	None

Epsv5 and Epdsv5-series

The Epsv5-series and Epdsv5-series virtual machines are based on the Arm architecture, delivering outstanding price-performance for memory-intensive workloads. These virtual machines feature the Ampere® Altra® Arm-based processor operating at 3.0 GHz, which provides an entire physical core for each virtual machine vCPU. These virtual machines offer a range of vCPU sizes, up to 8 GiB of memory per vCPU, and are best suited for memory-intensive scale-out and enterprise workloads, such as relational database servers, large databases, data analytics engines, in-memory caches, and more.

View the full Epsv5 and Epdsv5-series page.

Part	Quantity ^{Count ^Units}	Specs ^{SKU ID, Performance ^Units, etc.}
Processor	2 - 32^vCores	Ampere® Altra® (arm64)
Memory	16 - 208^GiB
Data Disks	4 - 32^Disks	3750 - 150000^IOPS / 85 - 2000^MBps
Network	2 - 8^NICs	12500 - 16000^Mbps
Accelerators	None

Previous-generation E family series

For older sizes, see previous generation sizes.

Other size information

List of all available sizes: Sizes

Pricing Calculator: Pricing Calculator

Information on Disk Types: Disk Types

Next steps

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