Reading Time: < 1 minute Azure offers various VM sizes for which you can constrain the VM vCPU count to reduce the cost of software licensing while maintaining the same memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth.
Constrained vCPU capable Azure VMs
Reading Time: 2 minutes This offering of constrained vCPU capable VMs has been around for quite a while in Azure. Use it for your SQL Server or Oracle servers that are not CPU intensive but need the rest of the resources RAM, IO, network to be of a larger VM but with a lower price because of fewer cores to license.