Azure Dedicated Host
Standard VMs in Azure are automatically placed and run on physical host servers. Therefore, your VM will be running on the same hardware as VMs from other customers at any one time. Although isolated by the virtualization later, any processing performed by your VM may share CPU and RAM space with that of other customers.
Azure dedicated hosts are physical servers that you can request. When you create a dedicated host, you gain control over the physical components and set your maintenance routines for things such as OS patching and reboots.
Dedicated hosts are typically required for compliance reasons, such as when your corporate policies restrict the use of shared infrastructure and demand hardware isolation. Once you have created your dedicated host, you can then provision virtual hosts on top. Billing is per physical host and is the same regardless of how many virtual servers you run on it – you do not get billed separately for the virtual server...
