B12ms by Microsoft Azure

B12ms is a B family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 12 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 12 vCPUs, 48 GiB of memory and 96 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.499 USD per hour.

The B12ms server is equipped with 12 logical CPU cores on 16 Intel Xeon 8272CL physical CPU cores, 48 GiB of memory, 96 GB of storage, and no GPU. Additional block storage can be attached as needed.

We have run 32 frameworks on the B12ms server, and collected 414 performance metrics. Depending on your use case, you might want to look at our Memory bandwidth, Compression algo, or OpenSSL speed benchmarks, among others. As a baseline example, the multi-core Geekbench6 compound score suggests that the B12ms server is 2.95x faster than the baseline Dell Precision 3460 with a Core i7-12700 processor.

The pricing for B12ms servers starts at 0.499 USD per hour, but the actual price depends on the selected region, zone and server allocation method (e.g. on-demand versus spot pricing options): currently, we track the prices in 111 regions and zones every 5 minutes, and the maximum price stands at 1.048 USD.

The B12ms server is offered by Microsoft Azure, founded in 2008, headquartered in Washington, United States. For more information, visit the Microsoft Azure homepage.

The B12ms server is available in 111 availability zones of the following 51 regions: East US (US), East US 2 (US), North Central US (US), West US 2 (US), West US 3 (US), Sweden Central (SE), Central India (IN), Jio India Central (IN), Jio India West (IN), North Europe (IE), Mexico Central (ZA), Spain Central (ES), Canada Central (CA), Canada East (CA), UK West (GB), France Central (FR), UK South (GB), Germany West Central (DE), Israel Central (IL), Italy North (IT), West Europe (NL), West US (US), Central US (US), South Central US (US), UAE North (AE), West Central US (US), Qatar Central (QA), Korea South (KR), Korea Central (KR), Switzerland North (CH), Australia Central (AU), Australia Central 2 (AU), Australia East (AU), Australia Southeast (AU), Norway East (NO), Poland Central (PL), Southeast Asia (SG), South Africa North (ZA), Japan East (JP), East Asia (HK), South India (IN), West India (IN), Japan West (JP), Germany North (DE), UAE Central (AE), Brazil South (BR), France South (FR), South Africa West (ZA), Switzerland West (CH), Norway West (NO), Brazil Southeast (US).

Yes! In addition to the B12ms server, the B server family includes 7 other sizes: B1ls (azure), B1s (azure), B1ms (azure), B2ats_v2 (azure), B2pts_v2 (azure), B2ts_v2 (azure), B2als_v2 (azure).

Looking at the number of GPU, vCPUs, and memory amount, the following top 10 servers come with similar specs: m5zn.3xlarge (aws), mac1.metal (aws), mac2-m2pro.metal (aws), vt1.3xlarge (aws), i3en.3xlarge (aws), z1d.3xlarge (aws), M12ds_v3 (azure).