Microsoft announces Solid State Drives(SSD) D-Series for Azure VMs and Cloud Services

The new D-Series Standard tier instances announced today have  SSD local drives and faster processors compared to A-Series instances.

The D-Series non-persistent instances can be used as,

• VMs
• Web/Worker roels in Cloud Services

If you need faster CPU performance, local disk performance and higher memories these are well suited.

The following table shows the cpu, memory and disk configurations for the D-Series.

Few more details here:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/d-series-virtual-machine-sizes/