New premium-series hardware based on the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon Scalable processor – code name Ice Lake – and AMD EPYCTM 7763v (Milan) chipsets, is now available for public preview on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale in a limited number of regions. It can provide you with faster compute and memory performance as well as improved IO and network experience over the standard-series (Gen 5) hardware offering. A new memory-optimized option within the premium-series delivers even more memory per vCore for the most memory-intensive workloads.