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A8m_v2 by Microsoft Azure

A8m_v2 is a Av2 family [Memory Intensive] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 82 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0552 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
82 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2764
(All-cores)
357
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_A8m_v2
Name
A8m_v2
API Reference
Standard_A8m_v2
Description
Av2 family [Memory Intensive] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
Av2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-30T06:21:09.923118

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0734 USD/h 0.397 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0808 USD/h 0.437 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0817 USD/h 0.442 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0771 USD/h 0.453 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0837 USD/h 0.453 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0837 USD/h 0.453 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0837 USD/h 0.453 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0837 USD/h 0.453 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0837 USD/h 0.453 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0837 USD/h 0.453 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0837 USD/h 0.453 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0854 USD/h 0.453 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0859 USD/h 0.465 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0859 USD/h 0.465 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0785 USD/h 0.475 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0878 USD/h 0.475 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0878 USD/h 0.475 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0878 USD/h 0.475 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0878 USD/h 0.475 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0931 USD/h 0.475 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1702 USD/h 0.475 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2274 USD/h 0.475 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0884 USD/h 0.477 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0898 USD/h 0.486 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0918 USD/h 0.497 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.092 USD/h 0.498 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.092 USD/h 0.498 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0959 USD/h 0.519 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0959 USD/h 0.519 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0959 USD/h 0.519 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.519 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.519 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0966 USD/h 0.523 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0968 USD/h 0.524 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0968 USD/h 0.524 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0983 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1 USD/h 0.541 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0655 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0552 USD/h 0.552 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.102 USD/h 0.552 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.102 USD/h 0.552 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.102 USD/h 0.552 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.102 USD/h 0.552 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.102 USD/h 0.552 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.102 USD/h 0.552 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1087 USD/h 0.588 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1087 USD/h 0.588 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1101 USD/h 0.596 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1101 USD/h 0.596 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1196 USD/h 0.647 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1196 USD/h 0.647 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1197 USD/h 0.648 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1238 USD/h 0.668 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1054 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1294 USD/h 0.718 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1975 USD/h 1.192 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8171M
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
50 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
50 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, md_clear
Ecpus
7.7
Scalability
96.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    82 GB
    Storages
    • 82 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-intensive virtual machine offering a high memory-to-core ratio for workloads requiring substantial RAM capacity without intensive computational demands.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure A8m_v2 is a memory-intensive virtual machine from the Av2 family, configured with 8 dedicated vCPUs on an Intel Xeon 8171M processor running at 2.6 GHz. It features 64.0 GB of system memory, yielding a high 8.0 GB per core ratio, and includes 82 GB of local storage with no GPU acceleration. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, its x86_64 architecture supports AVX and AVX512F instructions. Performance benchmarks place this instance in the lower tiers, with single-core and multi-core CPU metrics falling into the bottom 10% and 25% respectively, and memory bandwidth showing weak results. Consequently, the A8m_v2 presents a qualitative tradeoff of high memory capacity paired with low compute performance. It is best suited for memory-intensive workloads with low CPU demands, such as basic database hosting, caching layers, and lightweight web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.195Score
    Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
    Component Score Weight Impact
    Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
    Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 280,352 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.148 50.00% 50.00% -61.50%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,168,786 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.188 20.00% 20.00% -28.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 852.2 2,411 0.354 10.00% 10.00% -9.86%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,662 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.341 10.00% 10.00% -10.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 624.1 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.264 10.00% 10.00% -12.50%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 369

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,083

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 3724
    Compression
    		 48546
    Encryption
    		 1253
    Extended Instructions
    		 4222
    Floating Point Maths
    		 8164
    Integer Maths
    		 9775
    Physics
    		 423
    Prime Numbers
    		 23
    Single Threaded
    		 624
    String Sorting
    		 5878

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 852
    Database Operations
    		 1782
    Memory Latency
    		 150
    Memory Read Cached
    		 7333
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 3396
    Memory Write
    		 3238

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    Static Web Server

    Redis

    Alternatives

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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    A1_v2 12 GiB0
    A2_v2 24 GiB0
    A2m_v2 216 GiB0
    A4_v2 48 GiB0
    A4m_v2 432 GiB0
    A8_v2 816 GiB0

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