AMD’s 2nd Gen EPYC Processors and Radeon Instinct MI25 GPUs Extend Microsoft Azure’s Cloud Offerings

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AMD and Microsoft have teamed up to provide a new first. Some users of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service now have access to even more powerful hardware. AMD announced yesterday that they are making some enterprise server grade components available to Azure. Combining 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors and AMD Radeon Instinct™ MI25 GPUs to provide virtual desktop experiences. These visualization services will support simulations, graphics intensive projects, and entry level workers. Presently they are only available to customers in South Central U.S. and Europe West Azure regions. This partnership represents a couple of other firsts for AMD as well.



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“The Azure NVv4 VMs are also the first 2nd Gen AMD EPYC- and AMD Radeon Instinct-powered VMs...

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