How powerful Azure VMs are in regard to CPU intensive operations (e.g., file compression)? I decide to compare Azure VMs with my DELL M4700 laptop for file compression operations. I created one VM of size A6 in the US-East2 region. Size A6 means 4 CPUs, 28 GB of RAM, and 127 GB on the system drive. The second VM has size D4 in the US-East region. D4 is a newly announce type of VMs that comes with SSD disks presented as drive D: (non-persistent drive). The D4 size has 8 CPUs', 28 GB of RAM, and 400 GB of the temporary drive D: (backed by SSD disks). Both VMs report the same CPU information Caption : Intel64 Family 6 Model 45 Stepping 7 DeviceID : CPU0 Manufacturer : GenuineIntel MaxClockSpeed : 2200 Name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz SocketDesignation : None On my DELL M4700 laptop the CPU information is Caption : Intel64 Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9 DeviceID : CPU0 Manufacturer : Gen