Microsoft Virtual Machines EASv4 Series E8-2AS_V4
Secure access to Microsoft EASv4 Series virtual machines, offering enhanced performance and scalability for your critical business applications.
- Enhanced Performance: Experience faster processing and improved responsiveness for demanding workloads.
- Scalable Capacity: Easily adjust resources to meet fluctuating business needs without significant upfront investment.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize operational expenses with a pay-as-you-go subscription model.
- Reliable Infrastructure: Benefit from Microsoft's secure and highly available global data center network.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft Virtual Machines EASv4 Series, specifically the E8-2AS_V4 instance, provides a powerful and flexible platform for running demanding business applications and workloads. This subscription-based licensing grants access to compute resources optimized for memory-intensive tasks, ensuring your critical operations run smoothly and efficiently.
This offering is designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market companies who require robust virtualized environments. It integrates directly into existing Microsoft Azure infrastructure, allowing businesses to host applications, databases, and development environments without the overhead of managing physical hardware.
- Optimized for Memory Intensive Workloads: Ideal for databases, in-memory analytics, and caching scenarios.
- Pay-as-you-go Subscription: Flexible billing model that aligns costs with actual usage.
- Global Azure Infrastructure: Deploy on Microsoft's secure, reliable, and globally distributed data centers.
- High Performance Compute: Access powerful processors and ample memory for demanding applications.
- Compliance and Security: Built on a platform designed to meet stringent industry compliance standards.
Empower your business with enterprise-grade virtual machines without the enterprise overhead, ensuring performance and scalability for your critical applications.
What This Enables
Run memory-intensive business applications
Enable teams to deploy and operate memory-intensive applications such as large databases, in-memory analytics platforms, and caching services. This ensures optimal performance and responsiveness for data-driven business functions.
cloud-native deployments, hybrid cloud environments, virtualized application hosting, data analytics platforms
Support critical business databases
Streamline the deployment and management of critical business databases requiring significant memory resources. This ensures high availability and fast query performance for essential data operations.
database hosting, business intelligence systems, financial transaction processing, customer relationship management
Host development and testing environments
Automate the provisioning of robust development and testing environments that demand substantial memory. This accelerates the software development lifecycle and improves testing accuracy.
software development lifecycles, application testing frameworks, DevOps pipelines, staging environments
Key Features
Intel® Xeon® E5-2673 v4 2.3 GHz processors
Deliver high-speed processing power for demanding computational tasks and applications.
High memory to core ratio
Optimize performance for memory-intensive workloads like databases and analytics.
Azure global infrastructure
Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and low latency by deploying in Microsoft's secure data centers.
Subscription-based licensing
Provide predictable operational expenses and the flexibility to scale resources as needed.
Microsoft security and compliance
Meet regulatory requirements and protect sensitive data with a trusted cloud platform.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require high-performance computing for real-time transaction processing, risk analysis, and large database management, all of which benefit from memory-optimized virtual machines.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle vast amounts of patient data and require robust systems for electronic health records, medical imaging analysis, and research, demanding significant memory and processing power.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers utilize complex ERP systems, supply chain management software, and real-time data analytics for operational efficiency, often requiring powerful virtual machines to support these critical applications.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional service providers manage large case files, extensive document repositories, and client databases that benefit from the speed and capacity of memory-optimized virtual machines.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the EASv4 Series?
The EASv4 Series are memory-optimized virtual machines offered by Microsoft Azure. They are designed for memory-intensive workloads such as relational database servers, in-memory caches, and analytics applications.
What does the E8-2AS_V4 instance offer?
The E8-2AS_V4 instance provides 8 vCPUs, 128 GiB of RAM, and 160 GiB of temporary storage. It is built on Intel® Xeon® E5-2673 v4 2.3 GHz processors, offering a strong balance of compute and memory for demanding applications.
How is this licensed and billed?
This is a subscription-based license, meaning you pay a recurring fee for access to the virtual machine resources. Billing is typically based on usage, aligning costs with your operational needs.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.