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
2,764
(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
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-28T14:05:11.128877

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
0.0836 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
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
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
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
0.1361 USD/h 0.475 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1819 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
0.0873 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
0.1244 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1327 USD/h 0.718 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.2203 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    82 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    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

    0.19Score
    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 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.15 50.00% 50.00% -61.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,168,786 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.18 20.00% 20.00% -29.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 850 2,416 0.35 10.00% 10.00% -10.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,662 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.34 10.00% 10.00% -10.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 620 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.26 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 369

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,083

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 3,724
    Compression
    		 48,546
    Encryption
    		 1,253
    Extended Instructions
    		 4,222
    Floating Point Maths
    		 8,164
    Integer Maths
    		 9,775
    Physics
    		 423
    Prime Numbers
    		 23
    Single Threaded
    		 624
    String Sorting
    		 5,878

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 852
    Database Operations
    		 1,782
    Memory Latency
    		 150
    Memory Read Cached
    		 7,333
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 3,396
    Memory Write
    		 3,238

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 284.06 205.05 0.72×
    bitops
    		 38,121 289,978 7.61×
    branch
    		 49,352 379,351 7.69×
    funccall
    		 175.43 1,318 7.51×
    funcret
    		 3,511 26,583 7.57×
    hash
    		 41,803 311,039 7.44×
    intmath
    		 6,832 53,109 7.77×
    nop
    		 59,052 441,852 7.48×
    prime
    		 108,507 826,789 7.62×
    rotate
    		 31,993 240,640 7.52×
    str
    		 208,894 1,713,023 8.20×
    wcs
    		 149,942 1,137,546 7.59×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 762.05 5,717 7.50×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 158.16 1,188 7.51×
    zlib
    		 16.33 131.06 8.03×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 5,891 16,533 2.81×
    clone
    		 597.89 2,123 3.55×
    context
    		 631.18 4,818 7.63×
    cpu-sched
    		 52.13 491.42 9.43×
    eventfd
    		 12,773 193,320 15.13×
    fault
    		 2,119 12,318 5.81×
    fork
    		 1,946 5,047 2.59×
    getrandom
    		 14,204 106,571 7.50×
    hrtimers
    		 169,571 347,339 2.05×
    mprotect
    		 178,961 597,267 3.34×
    mtx
    		 12,491,975 116,126,448 9.30×
    munmap
    		 1,599 4,099 2.56×
    null
    		 65,277 499,493 7.65×
    pipe
    		 280,724 667,362 2.38×
    priv-instr
    		 152,407 1,115,342 7.32×
    resched
    		 704,181 304,385 0.43×
    switch
    		 30,453 579,674 19.04×
    timermix
    		 55,688 506,807 9.10×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 3,287 7,912 2.41×
    tsc
    		 321,824 2,472,056 7.68×
    usersyscall
    		 100,849 755,213 7.49×
    vdso
    		 25,817,931 191,321,761 7.41×
    vfork
    		 7,670 25,976 3.39×
    x86syscall
    		 760,374 5,749,761 7.56×
    yield
    		 1,903,630 1,948,429 1.02×
    zero
    		 506,473 3,801,318 7.51×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 4,540 35,977 7.92×
    expmath
    		 853.83 6,509 7.62×
    fma
    		 190,472 1,510,974 7.93×
    fp
    		 39.79 320.48 8.05×
    fractal
    		 1.8 12.6 7.00×
    hyperbolic
    		 946.51 7,113 7.52×
    logmath
    		 1,494 11,136 7.45×
    matrix
    		 1,177 8,938 7.60×
    matrix-3d
    		 224.75 855.02 3.80×
    monte-carlo
    		 41.32 303.29 7.34×
    mpfr
    		 375.97 2,820 7.50×
    powmath
    		 518.71 3,908 7.53×
    trig
    		 604.45 4,578 7.57×
    veccmp
    		 4,355 32,824 7.54×
    vecfp
    		 277.41 2,111 7.61×
    vecmath
    		 710.12 5,375 7.57×
    vecshuf
    		 177.46 1,347 7.59×
    vecwide
    		 7,666 60,915 7.95×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 2.2 15.99 7.27×
    bsearch
    		 74.73 565.05 7.56×
    bubblesort
    		 0.2 1.6 8.00×
    fibsearch
    		 89.94 677.13 7.53×
    heapsort
    		 2.6 19.19 7.38×
    hsearch
    		 1,299 9,636 7.42×
    insertionsort
    		 2.6 18.99 7.30×
    malloc
    		 445,618 6,380,678 14.32×
    mcontend
    		 108.29 725.45 6.70×
    mergesort
    		 8.4 63.37 7.54×
    qsort
    		 5.8 43.98 7.58×
    skiplist
    		 1,914 14,226 7.43×
    tree
    		 0.2 1.6 8.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 54,414 145,138 2.67×
    cachehammer
    		 120,051 913,789 7.61×
    cacheline
    		 20.01 168.29 8.41×
    l1cache
    		 61.89 469.81 7.59×
    memcpy
    		 135.89 1,049 7.72×
    memrate
    		 0.37 2.99 8.08×
    memthrash
    		 41.73 121.03 2.90×
    ptr-chase
    		 3,618,495 25,398,432 7.02×
    spinmem
    		 18.19 39.3 2.16×
    stream
    		 8.14 438.16 53.83×
    vm
    		 10,573 231,151 21.86×

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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