Today Microsoft has just released a new set of VM sizes for Microsoft Azure. It’s called D-Series of VM which offering faster vCPU (60% faster than A Series) and more memory (up to 112GB) and the most important is have a local SSD disk (up to 800GB) to enables much faster IO reads and writes. The following was the new set of VM sizes:-
| Name | Number of vCPU | Memory (GB) | SSD Local Disk (GB) | Max IOPS |
| Standard_D1 | 1 | 3.5 | 50 | 500 |
| Standard_D2 | 2 | 7 | 100 | 1000 |
| Standard_D3 | 4 | 14 | 200 | 2000 |
| Standard_D4 | 8 | 28 | 400 | 4000 |
| Standard_D11 | 2 | 14 | 100 | 1000 |
| Standard_D12 | 4 | 28 | 200 | 2000 |
| Standard_D13 | 8 | 56 | 400 | 4000 |
| Standard_D14 | 16 | 112 | 800 | 8000 |
