Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the GS Series for Azure VM. A variant of G-series, the GS-series, which combines the compute power of G-series with the performance of Premium Storage to create powerful VMs for your most storage and compute intensive applications.
Powered by the Intel Xeon E5 v3 family processors, the GS-series can have up to 64TB of storage, provide 80,000 IOPs (storage I/Os per second) and deliver 2,000 MB/s of storage throughput. The GS-series offers the highest disk throughput, by more than double, of any VM offered by any other hyperscale public cloud provider. Furthermore, both the G-series and GS-series offer up to 20 Gbps of network bandwidth, more than double that of the closest VMs of any hyperscale public cloud provider.
GS-series sizes, listed below, are available in every region the G-series sizes are available, including West US, East US 2 and West Europe.
| Size | Cores | Memory | Max Disk IOPS | Max Disk Bandwidth (MB per second) |
| Standard_GS1 | 2 | 28 | 5,000 | 125 |
| Standard_GS2 | 4 | 56 | 10,000 | 250 |
| Standard_GS3 | 8 | 112 | 20,000 | 500 |
| Standard_GS4 | 16 | 224 | 40,000 | 1,000 |
| Standard_GS5 | 32 | 448 | 80,000 | 2,000 |
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