B16als_v2 by Microsoft Azure

B16als_v2 is a Basv2 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.156 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
21,608
(All-cores)
2,704
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_B16als_v2
Name
B16als_v2
API Reference
Standard_B16als_v2
API Reference Object
-
Description
Basv2 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
Basv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
16
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-19T00:28:17.758467

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.3141 USD/h 0.349 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.349 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.349 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.4797 USD/h 0.533 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.4797 USD/h 0.533 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.4797 USD/h 0.533 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.4797 USD/h 0.533 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.4797 USD/h 0.533 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.4959 USD/h 0.551 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.5202 USD/h 0.578 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.156 USD/h 0.586 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.5328 USD/h 0.592 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.5328 USD/h 0.592 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.4771 USD/h 0.602 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.5418 USD/h 0.602 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.5418 USD/h 0.602 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.4185 USD/h 0.606 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.4185 USD/h 0.606 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.5472 USD/h 0.608 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.5472 USD/h 0.608 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.5499 USD/h 0.611 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.4226 USD/h 0.612 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.4226 USD/h 0.612 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.5508 USD/h 0.612 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.5508 USD/h 0.612 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.5508 USD/h 0.612 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.5517 USD/h 0.613 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.5688 USD/h 0.632 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.5751 USD/h 0.639 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.5751 USD/h 0.639 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.5751 USD/h 0.639 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.5805 USD/h 0.645 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.5967 USD/h 0.663 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.6021 USD/h 0.669 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.6057 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.6057 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.6057 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.6057 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.6057 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.6138 USD/h 0.682 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.6228 USD/h 0.692 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.6237 USD/h 0.693 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.6237 USD/h 0.693 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.6246 USD/h 0.694 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.6246 USD/h 0.694 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.6363 USD/h 0.707 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.6705 USD/h 0.745 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.5152 USD/h 0.746 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.6759 USD/h 0.751 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.7047 USD/h 0.783 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.7164 USD/h 0.796 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.7479 USD/h 0.831 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.7713 USD/h 0.857 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.7875 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.7875 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.8091 USD/h 0.899 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
1.0026 USD/h 1.114 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Burstable
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
3.525 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7763
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
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, arat, umip, vaes, vpclmulqdq, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
8
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A burstable, low-memory virtual machine featuring strong single-core performance and AMD EPYC processors for variable, cost-conscious workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetCompute Optimized

      Microsoft Azure B16als_v2 is an x86_64 burstable virtual machine from the Basv2 family, powered by an AMD EPYC 7763 processor running at 3.525 GHz. It features 16 vCPUs across 8 physical cores with hyperthreading and 32.0 GB of RAM, representing a low-memory configuration of 2.0 GB per core. The instance lacks local storage and integrated GPUs but supports Premium Storage. Benchmarks show strong single-core CPU and PassMark memory performance, alongside average multi-core and memory bandwidth results. The server also demonstrates strong text generation speeds for small language models, though prompt processing and larger model inference remain average. Due to its burstable CPU allocation and low memory density, it offers a cost-efficient profile for variable workloads. It is suited for static web serving, software compilation, database operations, and light text processing.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.9Score
      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) 1,281,276 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.68 50.00% 50.00% -18.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,719,946 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.81 20.00% 20.00% -4.10%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,809 2,417 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 347,690 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 3.2 10.00% 10.00% +12.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,395 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,592

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 9,731

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 22214
      Compression
      		 253874
      Encryption
      		 17217
      Extended Instructions
      		 14902
      Floating Point Maths
      		 36659
      Integer Maths
      		 66392
      Physics
      		 2624
      Prime Numbers
      		 147
      Single Threaded
      		 2395
      String Sorting
      		 36333

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2809
      Database Operations
      		 6959
      Memory Latency
      		 61
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24456
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 20816
      Memory Write
      		 19910

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYAccelerators
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      B2als_v2 24 GiB0
      B2as_v2 28 GiB0
      B4als_v2 48 GiB0
      B4as_v2 416 GiB0
      B8als_v2 816 GiB0
      B8as_v2 832 GiB0

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