The 'Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM)' is a 'Ubuntu 22.04' VM that has several popular tools for data exploration, analysis, modeling & development pre installed.

Highlights:

Operating System, Drivers and other base components

"Ubuntu 22.04" image from Azure Marketplace
Nvidia drivers, CUDA Toolkit, cuDNN (when GPU machines are used)
Docker
Anaconda ("conda")
Git

Authoring Tools

Visual Studio Code
PyCharm Community Edition
Jupyter, Jupyter Lab

ML Framework

PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn
pyspark
dask
Vowpal Wabbit

Other Notable Components

Azure CLI
Azure ML SDK for Python
Azure Storage Explorer

Users can access the DSVM via Remote Desktop, SSH or browser (eg: Jupyter Hub). Optionally, the VM can be placed in a corporate network.

Users have full access to the DSVM. If needed, configurations can be adjusted, and additional frameworks can be installed like with any other virtual machine. The image provided here is a static VM image. Maintenance and protection against vulnerabilities of provisioned DSVMs is in the customer's responsibility.

There is also a DSVM on Windows.

For more details, see the Data Science Virtual Machine documentation.

Data Science Virtual Machine - Ubuntu 22.04Microsoft

Data Science Virtual Machine - Ubuntu 22.04

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Data Science Virtual Machine - Ubuntu 22.04

Microsoft

Data Science Virtual Machine - Ubuntu 22.04
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