Microsoft announced a new virtual machine (VM) 'D-Series' today that expands VM sizing options for organizations using Microsoft Azure cloud services.

Azure users want to use the G-series machines to run big database workloads. “As those workloads have grown, the desire for increased storage throughput has come up regularly,” he told me.

Since we know we're a database heavy application, we make sure the database has resources to spare. In Azure, the VM size is large. We attach a disk for SQL Data, SQL Log, and SQL Archive.