arm64 images on Azure DevOps

[escherstair]

Description

My company has licenses of Azure DevOps and we configured CI/CD using pipelines.
Our target architecture is arm64 but as far as I understand, Azure DevOps pipeline offers only amd64 runner images (windows, linux or macos).
I see there are macos images, but I can't find a way to have them on ADO (only github works?)
And so I should always use qemu which has really bad performance (a build takes more than 30 minutes instead of 1 minute - I already use caching and all I can).

We need a runner image on arm64 (ubuntu if possible).

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 24.04
• Ubuntu Slim
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• macOS 15
• macOS 15 Arm64
• macOS 26
• macOS 26 Arm64
• Windows Server 2022
• Windows Server 2025
• Windows Server 2025 with Visual Studio 2026

Image version and build link

ubuntu-24.04

Is it regression?

no

Expected behavior

I would like being able to use a MS-hosted agent running ubuntu on arm64 architecture in ADO Pipeline.

Actual behavior

I cannot find it.

Repro steps

n.a.

[v-GeorgyPuzakov]

Hi @escherstair,

This repository manages runner image definitions, but which architectures and VM SKUs are available on the Azure DevOps hosted agent platform is not something we control here.

I'll check with the team regarding it and get back to you.