Big Cloud VMs @ Azure

ScottGu's Blog - Announcing the Biggest VM Sizes Available in the Cloud: New Azure GS-VM Series

Size: Standard_GS5 

Cores: 32
Memory GB: 448
Max Disk IOPS: 80,000
Max Disk Bandwidth (MB per second): 2,000

Price: $6000/ month

Mark Russinovich demos the new GS variant of VMs on Azure | Regular IT Guy | Channel 9

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