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by gorbypark 382 days ago
I don’t think many azure services are Linux on hyper-v, are they? Azure (afaik) is quite heavy on bare metal Linux.
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pjmlp 381 days ago
The OS powering Azure is Windows, even if about 60% of the VMs run Linux workloads, as per official numbers.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windowsosplatform/a...

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miffy900 381 days ago
Many of their SaaS offerings are, but many infrastructure offerings are running Windows Server underneath. Rent out any Azure VM, and regardless of guest OS, it's using Hyper-v underneath as the hypervisor.
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gorbypark 368 days ago
Ah cool, I didn't realize that even their linux VMs are being powered by Hyper-V
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