# Azure Bare Metal Instances

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- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/azure-bare-metal-instances
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/azure-bare-metal-instances.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/azure-bare-metal-instances/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://microsoft.com
- **Slug:** azure-bare-metal-instances
- **Categories:** cloud-infrastructure

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Deep integration with the Azure ecosystem combined with specialized certification for massive SAP HANA workloads that require no hypervisor interference.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Azure Bare Metal Instances are dedicated physical server offerings within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem designed for workloads that require high performance and hardware-level isolation. Unlike standard virtual machines, these instances provide direct access to hardware without a hypervisor, commonly used for large-scale SAP HANA deployments and specialized enterprise applications.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Dedicated Bare Metal Servers
  - SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances
  - Specialized Storage for Bare Metal.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Enterprise/Custom
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Fortune 500 Enterprises, Large-scale SAP customers, HPC research institutions.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - AWS Bare Metal Instances
  - Google Cloud Bare Metal Solution
  - IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
  - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Bare Metal
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

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