Background

What is the Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based processor?

Cobalt 100 is Microsoft’s first Arm-based server processor, built using the Armv9 Neoverse-N2 CPU.

The Cobalt 100 processor is optimized for the performance of scale-out cloud-based applications.

The Azure Cobalt 100 VM instances include two series:

• The general-purpose Dpsv6 and Dplsv6 virtual machine series.
• The memory-optimized Epsv6 virtual machine series.

To learn more about Azure Cobalt 100, refer to the blog “Announcing the preview of new Azure VMs based on the Azure Cobalt 100 processor” .