I\u2019d love to have more information to share, but all we have is all I stumbled upon in the pricing pages last week:<\/p>\n
As you can see in the names, they comply with the \u201cnew\u201d format. That S in the names suggests that these machines support Premium (SSD) storage disks.<\/p>\n These are low end machines, as you can see by the entry level 1 core & 1 GB RAM model. The Microsoft VM pricing page says<\/a> that they are good for:<\/p>\n \u2026 development and test servers, low traffic web servers, small databases, micro services, servers for proof-of-concepts, build servers, and code repositories.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The costs are really low. The B2S is just \u20ac20.71 per month, compared with \u20ac85.33 for the A2_v2 \u2013 both having 2 cores and 4 GB RAM. If you want a low end web server, then that\u2019s a seriously cheap offering!<\/p>\n AWS does have something called T2 Instances<\/a>. These are VMs that offer CPU burst-ability based on credits earned for low CPU utilization. The rough language of suitable roles is similar to that of the Azure B-Series. However, we have no detailed information on the B-Series yet – my bet is that will be published on September 25th (Ignite day 1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Microsoft has released pricing for a new kind of virtual machine in Azure, called the B-Series. The key traits of this VM type are: It is 1\/4 the price of a similar A_v2-Series machine. The CPU runs at a low rate, and \u201cbursts\u201d on demand for higher capacity jobs. I\u2019d love to have more information … Continue reading “Azure Low Cost “Burstable” CPU Virtual Machines”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[170,198,153],"class_list":["post-20420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure","tag-azure","tag-b-series","tag-virtual-machines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"image\"](\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image-1.png\" "\\"image\\"")
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