Microsoft has increased by a factor of eight the maximum size of OS drives that can run on its Azure cloud, hoping to get enterprises to migrate more workloads.

Microsoft is methodically launching new services and adding features to Azure to make the platform more competitive and a better fit for different applications. Until now, virtual machines on Azure had a maximum OS drive size of 127GB, a problem for enterprises that wanted to move existing on-site virtual machines that for some reason were bigger than that.

With the new 1023GB limit, migrating virtual machines where apps and data residing on the OS drive exceed the previous ceiling becomes more straightforward, Microsoft’s Guy Bowerman, senior program manager, Azure Compute Runtime, said in a blog post.

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