Announcing the General Availability of Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines

Today, Microsoft is excited to announce the General Availability of the new Azure FXv2-series Virtual Machines (VMs), powered by the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids) processor. This release includes Compute-optimized VMs FXmsv2-series and FXmdsv2-series. The FXv2-series VMs are optimally designed and purpose-built for compute-intensive workloads such as…

21/05/2025Azure Compute Blog

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