Azure FX series Virtual Machines are now generally available in the West US 2, West Europe, and Japan East regions, and will be released into more regions based on demand.
On the 22nd June 2021 Microsoft announced the new FX series VM’s are now generally available in three regions.
Microsoft are targeting these VMs for EDA (Electronic Design Automation) workloads, but they should provide benefits for any workloads that require high CPU frequency and high memory capacity.
In Europe the following 4 instances are available:
1. FX48mds: 4 Cores, 84GB of RAM.
2. FX12mds: 12 Cores, 252GB RAM
3. FX24mds: 24 Cores, 504GB RAM
4. FX48mds: 48 Cores, 1008GB RAM
With current prices ranging from €390.30 – €4,683.55 for the base instances.
For more information please refer to the announcement from Microsoft here Optimize extreme computing performance with Azure FX-series Virtual Machines | Azure blog and updates | Microsoft Azure
