Microsoft Azure gets a new VM family for bursty workloads

 Microsoft today announced the preview launch of a new family of virtual machines for its Azure cloud computing platform that’s specifically geared toward bursty workloads. Microsoft argues that these so-called B-series machines, which are currently the lowest-cost Azure machines with flexible CPU usage, should work well for workloads like web servers, small databases and dev/test… Read More

from Microsoft – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/11/azure-gets-bursty/?ncid=rss