Announcing the new Ebsv5 VM sizes offering 2X remote storage performance with NVMe-Public Preview

On April 5^th, 2022, we announced the general availability of the Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VM family, offering up to 120,000 IOPS (I/O operations per second)  and 4,000MBps of remote disk storage throughput.

Today, we are announcing the Public Preview of two additional Virtual Machine (VM) sizes, E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5, to the Ebsv5 VM family. The two new sizes are developed with the NVMe protocol and provide exceptional remote storage performance offering up to 260,000 IOPS and 8,000 MBps throughput.

The E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5 sizes are the latest memory-optimized instances offered with NVMe. These new VM sizes provide 2x more remote storage performance than existing Ebsv5 VM sizes, up to 6x more than the previous generation Ev4 VM sizes. These substantial performance improvements will enable customers to consolidate existing workloads into fewer or smaller VM sizes and achieve potential cost savings. These new sizes include up to 672 GiB of RAM and up to 3800 GiB of local SSD storage. Similar to the other VM sizes in the Ebsv5 family, these new sizes are offered with and without a local disk to best match your workload requirements. The Public Preview is initially available in US West Central, and we plan to add more regions soon. The pricing details are available here. For the preview, we support only Premium SSD.

Key benefits of the new NVMe-based Ebsv5 VM sizes:

Customers usually deploy data-intensive workloads such as online transaction processing systems, data warehousing, and analytical applications on memory-optimized Ev5 VM series. While the Ev5 VMs meet the performance requirements for many business-critical applications, some large on-premises database environments require even higher VM-to-disk throughput and IOPS performance per core which the latest NVMe Ebsv5 VM sizes can now support. The NVMe-based Ebsv5 VMs offer customers the performance to scale without rearchitecting their applications while reducing the cost of infrastructure and licensed commercial software running on those instances. In addition, the E112i vCPU Isolated VM size is available for workloads requiring isolation from other customers’ workloads to satisfy specific compliance and regulatory requirements.

Ebdsv5 series VM specifications:

Note: The Uncached IOPS/ throughput specs are the same as Ebsv5 VMs above.

Join the Preview:

Sign up for a preview of the Ebsv5 NVM-enabled VMs and be among the first to try this new offering.