B16ls_v2 by Microsoft Azure

B16ls_v2 is a Bsv2 family [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3207 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
15,533
(All-cores)
1,898
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_B16ls_v2
Name
B16ls_v2
API Reference
Standard_B16ls_v2
Description
Bsv2 family [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
Bsv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-28T07:57:06.884598

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US (US) / eastus
0.5301 USD/h 0.589 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.5301 USD/h 0.589 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.5301 USD/h 0.589 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.5301 USD/h 0.589 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.5301 USD/h 0.589 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.5508 USD/h 0.612 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.5715 USD/h 0.635 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.635 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.635 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.5814 USD/h 0.646 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.5814 USD/h 0.646 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.5913 USD/h 0.657 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.5913 USD/h 0.657 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.5275 USD/h 0.666 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.6021 USD/h 0.669 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.6021 USD/h 0.669 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.6057 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.6102 USD/h 0.678 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.6111 USD/h 0.679 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.6111 USD/h 0.679 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.6111 USD/h 0.679 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.3207 USD/h 0.68 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.3207 USD/h 0.68 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.612 USD/h 0.68 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.612 USD/h 0.68 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.612 USD/h 0.68 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.6327 USD/h 0.703 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.6363 USD/h 0.707 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.6363 USD/h 0.707 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.6399 USD/h 0.711 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.6417 USD/h 0.713 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.6633 USD/h 0.737 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.6732 USD/h 0.748 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.6732 USD/h 0.748 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.6732 USD/h 0.748 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.6732 USD/h 0.748 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.6732 USD/h 0.748 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.6732 USD/h 0.748 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.6795 USD/h 0.755 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.6894 USD/h 0.766 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.6921 USD/h 0.769 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.6939 USD/h 0.771 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.6939 USD/h 0.771 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.7074 USD/h 0.786 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.3891 USD/h 0.825 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.7452 USD/h 0.828 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.7479 USD/h 0.831 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.7821 USD/h 0.869 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.7956 USD/h 0.884 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.8316 USD/h 0.924 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.8568 USD/h 0.952 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.8757 USD/h 0.973 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.8757 USD/h 0.973 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.8991 USD/h 0.999 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
1.1142 USD/h 1.238 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Burstable
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8370C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
10 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
48 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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, fsrm, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
8.2
Scalability
51.25

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

      Server Description

      A burstable, Intel-powered virtual machine with sixteen vCPUs and thirty-two gigabytes of memory for handling variable and intermittent workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetCompute Optimized

      Microsoft Azure B16ls_v2 is an x86_64 burstable virtual machine from the Bsv2 family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is equipped with an Intel Xeon 8370C processor operating at 2.8 GHz, featuring 16 vCPUs, 8 physical cores, and 32.0 GB of RAM. The instance does not include local storage or GPUs but is Premium Storage capable. Benchmark results show a PassMark CPU score of 21273.81, a Geekbench multi-core score of 9950.0, and a static web serving throughput of 21.38 GB/sec. It also handles Redis SET operations at 15.93 million operations per second. Due to its burstable CPU allocation and 1:2 memory-to-vCPU ratio, this server offers a cost-effective solution for workloads with fluctuating resource demands. It is best suited for development environments, code compilation, lightweight web serving, and database operations with variable traffic patterns.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.1Score
      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) 2,215,616 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.2 50.00% 50.00% +9.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,939,925 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.92 20.00% 20.00% -1.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,573 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 103,718 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.91 10.00% 10.00% -0.94%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,431 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,652

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 9,950

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 21,274
      Compression
      		 248,716
      Encryption
      		 14,595
      Extended Instructions
      		 14,444
      Floating Point Maths
      		 34,421
      Integer Maths
      		 67,317
      Physics
      		 2,267
      Prime Numbers
      		 135
      Single Threaded
      		 2,431
      String Sorting
      		 34,786

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,573
      Database Operations
      		 7,905
      Memory Latency
      		 53
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,392
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11,616
      Memory Write
      		 10,424

      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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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYAccelerators
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      B2s_v2 28 GiB0
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      B4s_v2 416 GiB0
      B8ls_v2 816 GiB0
      B8s_v2 832 GiB0

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