The DCedsv5-series are Azure confidential VMs that protect the confidentiality and integrity of code and data while it's being processed. Organizations can use these VMs to seamlessly bring confidential workloads to the cloud without any code changes to the application. These machines are powered by Intel® 4th Generation Xeon® Scalable processors with Base Frequency of 2.1 GHz, All Core Turbo Frequency of 2.9 GHz and Intel® AMX for AI acceleration.
Featuring Intel® Trust Domain Extensions (TDX), these VMs are hardened from the cloud virtualized environment by denying the hypervisor, other host management code and administrators access to the VM memory and state. It helps to protect VMs against a broad range of sophisticated hardware and software attacks.
These VMs have native support for confidential disk encryption meaning organizations can encrypt their VM disks at boot with either a customer-managed key (CMK), or platform-managed key (PMK). This feature is fully integrated with Azure KeyVault or Azure Managed HSM with validation for FIPS 140-2 Level 3.
The DCedsv5 offer a balance of memory to vCPU performance that is suitable most production workloads. With up to 96 vCPUs, 384 GiB of RAM, and support for up to 2.8 TB of local disk storage. These VMs work well for many general computing workloads, e-commerce systems, web front ends, desktop virtualization solutions, sensitive databases, other enterprise applications and more.
Important
These virtual machines are in public preview and not recommended for production usage.
These VMs are available in West Europe, Central US, East US 2 and North Europe.
Host specifications
| Part |
Quantity
Count Units |
Specs
SKU ID, Performance Units, etc. |
| Processor |
2 - 96 vCPUs |
Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids) [x86-64] |
| Memory |
8 - 384 GiB |
|
| Local Storage |
1 Disk |
47 - 2823 GiB
9300 - 459200 IOPS (RR)
100 - 4000 MBps (RR) |
| Remote Storage |
4 - 32 Disks |
3750 - 80000 IOPS
80 - 2600 MBps |
| Network |
2 - 8 NICs |
3000 - 30000 Mbps |
| Accelerators |
None |
|
Feature support
Premium Storage: Supported
Premium Storage caching: Supported
Live Migration: Not Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
Generation 2 VMs: Supported
Generation 1 VMs: Not Supported
Accelerated Networking: Not Supported
Ephemeral OS Disk: Not Supported
Nested Virtualization: Not Supported
Sizes in series
vCPUs (Qty.) and Memory for each size
| Size Name |
vCPUs (Qty.) |
Memory (GB) |
| Standard_DC2eds_v5 |
2 |
8 |
| Standard_DC4eds_v5 |
4 |
16 |
| Standard_DC8eds_v5 |
8 |
32 |
| Standard_DC16eds_v5 |
16 |
64 |
| Standard_DC32eds_v5 |
32 |
128 |
| Standard_DC48eds_v5 |
48 |
192 |
| Standard_DC64eds_v5 |
64 |
256 |
| Standard_DC96eds_v5 |
96 |
384 |
VM Basics resources
Local (temp) storage info for each size
| Size Name |
Max Temp Storage Disks (Qty.) |
Temp Disk Size (GiB) |
Temp Disk Random Read (RR)1 IOPS |
Temp Disk Random Read (RR)1 Throughput (MB/s) |
| Standard_DC2eds_v5 |
1 |
47 |
9300 |
100 |
| Standard_DC4eds_v5 |
1 |
105 |
19500 |
200 |
| Standard_DC8eds_v5 |
1 |
227 |
38900 |
500 |
| Standard_DC16eds_v5 |
1 |
463 |
76700 |
1000 |
| Standard_DC32eds_v5 |
1 |
935 |
153200 |
2000 |
| Standard_DC48eds_v5 |
1 |
1407 |
229700 |
3000 |
| Standard_DC64eds_v5 |
1 |
2823 |
306200 |
4000 |
| Standard_DC96eds_v5 |
1 |
2823 |
459200 |
4000 |
Storage resources
Table definitions
- 1Temp disk speed often differs between RR (Random Read) and RW (Random Write) operations. RR operations are typically faster than RW operations. The RW speed is usually slower than the RR speed on series where only the RR speed value is listed.
- Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3) remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.
- Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.
- To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.
Remote (uncached) storage info for each size
| Size Name |
Max Remote Storage Disks (Qty.) |
Uncached Premium SSD Disk IOPS |
Uncached Premium SSD Throughput (MB/s) |
Uncached Premium SSD Burst1 IOPS |
Uncached Premium SSD Burst1 Throughput (MB/s) |
| Standard_DC2eds_v5 |
4 |
3750 |
80 |
10000 |
1200 |
| Standard_DC4eds_v5 |
8 |
6400 |
140 |
20000 |
1200 |
| Standard_DC8eds_v5 |
16 |
12800 |
300 |
20000 |
1200 |
| Standard_DC16eds_v5 |
32 |
25600 |
600 |
40000 |
1200 |
| Standard_DC32eds_v5 |
32 |
51200 |
860 |
80000 |
2000 |
| Standard_DC48eds_v5 |
32 |
76800 |
1320 |
80000 |
3000 |
| Standard_DC64eds_v5 |
32 |
80000 |
1740 |
80000 |
3000 |
| Standard_DC96eds_v5 |
32 |
80000 |
2600 |
120000 |
4000 |
Storage resources
Table definitions
1Some sizes support bursting to temporarily increase disk performance. Burst speeds can be maintained for up to 30 minutes at a time.
Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3) remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.
Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.
Data disks can operate in cached or uncached modes. For cached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to ReadOnly or ReadWrite. For uncached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to None.
To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.
Network interface info for each size
| Size Name |
Max NICs (Qty.) |
Max Network Bandwidth (Mb/s) |
| Standard_DC2eds_v5 |
2 |
3000 |
| Standard_DC4eds_v5 |
2 |
5000 |
| Standard_DC8eds_v5 |
4 |
5000 |
| Standard_DC16eds_v5 |
8 |
10000 |
| Standard_DC32eds_v5 |
8 |
12500 |
| Standard_DC48eds_v5 |
8 |
15000 |
| Standard_DC64eds_v5 |
8 |
20000 |
| Standard_DC96eds_v5 |
8 |
30000 |
Networking resources
Table definitions
- Expected network bandwidth is the maximum aggregated bandwidth allocated per VM type across all NICs, for all destinations. For more information, see Virtual machine network bandwidth
- Upper limits aren't guaranteed. Limits offer guidance for selecting the right VM type for the intended application. Actual network performance will depend on several factors including network congestion, application loads, and network settings. For information on optimizing network throughput, see Optimize network throughput for Azure virtual machines.
- To achieve the expected network performance on Linux or Windows, you may need to select a specific version or optimize your VM. For more information, see Bandwidth/Throughput testing (NTTTCP).
Accelerator (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) info for each size
Note
No accelerators are present in this series.
List of all available sizes: Sizes
Pricing Calculator: Pricing Calculator
Information on Disk Types: Disk Types
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