Misha Bansal introduces Azure Ebsv6 and Ebdsv6 VMs, now in public preview, highlighting their enhanced storage, processing, and security features for intensive enterprise workloads.

Announcing Preview of Azure Ebsv6 and Ebdsv6 VMs Powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors

Author: Misha Bansal, Product Manager, Azure Compute

Azure has launched the public preview of the Ebsv6 and Ebdsv6 Virtual Machines, built on the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids) processors. These VMs are engineered for high remote storage throughput and are ideal for organizations dealing with intensive data workloads such as relational databases, large-scale data warehousing, and analytics.

Key Features

  • Up to 2× higher remote storage performance compared to Ebsv5 VMs
  • Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8573C CPU: Delivers 15–30% better CPU performance
  • Memory configurations: Up to 192 vCPU and 1832 GiB RAM
  • Azure Boost: Provides up to 800,000 IOPS, 14 GB/s remote disk throughput, and increased IOPS/vCPU
  • Storage: NVMe interface support for both local and remote disks, flexible configurations, and options for local SSD
  • Networking: Up to 200 Gbps bandwidth
  • Security: Enhanced using Intel® Total Memory Encryption (TME) technology

Technical Specifications (Ebsv6 & Ebdsv6 Series)

VM Series vCPU Memory (GiB) Uncached Ultra Disk & Premium SSD v2 IOPS Throughput (MB/s)
Ebsv6/Ebdsv6 2–192 16–1832 13,200–800,000 330–14,000

Full specifications, including local temp disk options, are available on the Ebdsv6 documentation page.

Supported Workloads

  • Real-time OLTP/OLAP workloads
  • Relational database servers
  • Data warehousing
  • Advanced analytics
  • High-performance enterprise workloads requiring low-latency and high-throughput storage

How to Get Started

For support, contact Azure Support.

Updated Nov 17, 2025 – Version 1.0

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