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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 0.1172 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
21608
(All-cores)
2704
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_B16als_v2
Name
B16als_v2
API Reference
Standard_B16als_v2
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
2026-07-20T08:16:09.667076

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
0.1172 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
0.3144 USD/h 0.606 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.3144 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
0.3175 USD/h 0.612 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.3175 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 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.6024 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
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
0.5908 USD/h 0.707 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.6705 USD/h 0.745 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.387 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
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    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

    0.909Score
    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 1,895,870 ops/sec 0.676 50.00% 50.00% -17.80%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,719,946 ops/sec 11,503,938 ops/sec 0.845 20.00% 20.00% -3.31%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,809 2,410 1.17 10.00% 10.00% +1.58%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 347,690 MB/sec 107,331 MB/sec 3.24 10.00% 10.00% +12.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,395 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.01 10.00% 10.00% +0.10%

    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

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    B2ats_v2 21 GiB0
    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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