DCesv5 sizes series

The DCesv5-series are Azure confidential VMs that protect the confidentiality and integrity of code and data while it's being processed. Organizations can use these VMs to seamlessly bring confidential workloads to the cloud without any code changes to the application. These machines are powered by Intel® 4th Generation Xeon® Scalable processors with Base Frequency of 2.1 GHz, All Core Turbo Frequency of 2.9 GHz and Intel® AMX for AI acceleration.

Featuring Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX), these VMs are hardened from the cloud virtualized environment by denying the hypervisor, other host management code and administrators access to the VM memory and state. It helps to protect VMs against a broad range of sophisticated hardware and software attacks.

These VMs have native support for confidential disk encryption meaning organizations can encrypt their VM disks at boot with either a customer-managed key (CMK), or platform-managed key (PMK). This feature is fully integrated with Azure KeyVault or Azure Managed HSM with validation for FIPS 140-2 Level 3.

The DCesv5 offer a balance of memory to vCPU performance that is suitable most production workloads. With up to 96 vCPUs, 384 GiB of RAM, and support for remote disk storage. If you require a local disk, please consider DCedsv5-series. These VMs work well for many general computing workloads, e-commerce systems, web front ends, desktop virtualization solutions, sensitive databases, other enterprise applications and more.

Important

These virtual machines are in public preview and not recommended for production usage. These VMs are available in West Europe, Central US, East US 2 and North Europe.

Host specifications

Part	Quantity Count Units	Specs SKU ID, Performance Units, etc.
Processor	2 - 96 vCPUs	Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids) [x86-64]
Memory	8 - 384 GiB
Local Storage	None
Remote Storage	4 - 32 Disks	3750 - 80000 IOPS 80 - 2600 MBps
Network	2 - 8 NICs	3000 - 30000 Mbps
Accelerators	None

Feature support

Premium Storage: Supported
Premium Storage caching: Supported
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
Generation 2 VMs: Supported
Generation 1 VMs: Not Supported
Accelerated Networking: Not Supported
Ephemeral OS Disk: Not Supported
Nested Virtualization: Not Supported

Sizes in series

Basics

vCPUs (Qty.) and Memory for each size

Size Name	vCPUs (Qty.)	Memory (GB)
Standard_DC2es_v5	2	8
Standard_DC4es_v5	4	16
Standard_DC8es_v5	8	32
Standard_DC16es_v5	16	64
Standard_DC32es_v5	32	128
Standard_DC48es_v5	48	192
Standard_DC64es_v5	64	256
Standard_DC96es_v5	96	384

VM Basics resources

• Check vCPU quotas

Local storage

Local (temp) storage info for each size

Note

No local storage present in this series.

For frequently asked questions, see Azure VM sizes with no local temp disk.

Remote storage

Remote (uncached) storage info for each size

Size Name	Max Remote Storage Disks (Qty.)	Uncached Premium SSD Disk IOPS	Uncached Premium SSD Throughput (MB/s)	Uncached Premium SSD Burst1 IOPS	Uncached Premium SSD Burst1 Throughput (MB/s)
Standard_DC2es_v5	4	3750	80	10000	1200
Standard_DC4es_v5	8	6400	140	20000	1200
Standard_DC8es_v5	16	12800	300	20000	1200
Standard_DC16es_v5	32	25600	600	40000	1200
Standard_DC32es_v5	32	51200	860	80000	2000
Standard_DC48es_v5	32	76800	1320	80000	3000
Standard_DC64es_v5	32	80000	1740	80000	3000
Standard_DC96es_v5	32	80000	2600	120000	4000

Storage resources

• Introduction to Azure managed disks
• Azure managed disk types
• Share an Azure managed disk

Table definitions

• ¹Some sizes support bursting to temporarily increase disk performance. Burst speeds can be maintained for up to 30 minutes at a time.

• Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3) remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.

• Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.

• Data disks can operate in cached or uncached modes. For cached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to ReadOnly or ReadWrite. For uncached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to None.

• To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.

Network

Network interface info for each size

Size Name	Max NICs (Qty.)	Max Network Bandwidth (Mb/s)
Standard_DC2es_v5	2	3000
Standard_DC4es_v5	2	5000
Standard_DC8es_v5	4	5000
Standard_DC16es_v5	8	10000
Standard_DC32es_v5	8	12500
Standard_DC48es_v5	8	15000
Standard_DC64es_v5	8	20000
Standard_DC96es_v5	8	30000

Networking resources

• Virtual networks and virtual machines in Azure
• Virtual machine network bandwidth

Table definitions

• Expected network bandwidth is the maximum aggregated bandwidth allocated per VM type across all NICs, for all destinations. For more information, see Virtual machine network bandwidth
• Upper limits aren't guaranteed. Limits offer guidance for selecting the right VM type for the intended application. Actual network performance will depend on several factors including network congestion, application loads, and network settings. For information on optimizing network throughput, see Optimize network throughput for Azure virtual machines.
• To achieve the expected network performance on Linux or Windows, you may need to select a specific version or optimize your VM. For more information, see Bandwidth/Throughput testing (NTTTCP).

Accelerators

Accelerator (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) info for each size

Note

No accelerators are present in this series.

Other size information

List of all available sizes: Sizes

Pricing Calculator: Pricing Calculator

Information on Disk Types: Disk Types

Next steps

Learn more about how Azure compute units (ACU) can help you compare compute performance across Azure SKUs.

Check out Azure Dedicated Hosts for physical servers able to host one or more virtual machines assigned to one Azure subscription.

Learn how to Monitor Azure virtual machines.