B16ms by Microsoft Azure
B16ms is a BS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 131 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.666 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
131 GB Storage
Spare SCore
19909
(All-cores)
(All-cores)
1247
(Single-core)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | azure |
Server ID | Standard_B16ms |
Name | B16ms |
API Reference | Standard_B16ms |
Description | BS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs |
Family | BS |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-04-22T10:52:15.405917 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
East US (US) / eastus | - | 0.666 USD/h |
East US 2 (US) / eastus2 | - | 0.666 USD/h |
North Central US (US) / northcentralus | - | 0.666 USD/h |
West US 2 (US) / westus2 | - | 0.666 USD/h |
West US 3 (US) / westus3 | - | 0.666 USD/h |
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral | - | 0.691 USD/h |
Central India (IN) / centralindia | - | 0.717 USD/h |
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral | - | 0.717 USD/h |
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest | - | 0.717 USD/h |
North Europe (IE) / northeurope | - | 0.728 USD/h |
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral | - | 0.732 USD/h |
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral | - | 0.732 USD/h |
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral | - | 0.742 USD/h |
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast | - | 0.742 USD/h |
UK West (GB) / ukwest | - | 0.752 USD/h |
France Central (FR) / francecentral | - | 0.755 USD/h |
UK South (GB) / uksouth | - | 0.755 USD/h |
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral | - | 0.76 USD/h |
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest | - | 0.76 USD/h |
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast | - | 0.768 USD/h |
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral | - | 0.768 USD/h |
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral | - | 0.768 USD/h |
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral | - | 0.768 USD/h |
Italy North (IT) / italynorth | - | 0.768 USD/h |
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral | - | 0.768 USD/h |
West Europe (NL) / westeurope | - | 0.768 USD/h |
West US (US) / westus | - | 0.794 USD/h |
Central US (US) / centralus | - | 0.799 USD/h |
South Central US (US) / southcentralus | - | 0.799 USD/h |
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth | - | 0.799 USD/h |
West Central US (US) / westcentralus | - | 0.799 USD/h |
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral | - | 0.802 USD/h |
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth | - | 0.83 USD/h |
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral | - | 0.832 USD/h |
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth | - | 0.8448 USD/h |
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral | - | 0.845 USD/h |
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2 | - | 0.845 USD/h |
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast | - | 0.845 USD/h |
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast | - | 0.845 USD/h |
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast | - | 0.845 USD/h |
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia | - | 0.845 USD/h |
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth | - | 0.868 USD/h |
Japan East (JP) / japaneast | - | 0.87 USD/h |
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth | - | 0.887 USD/h |
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral | - | 0.932 USD/h |
East Asia (HK) / eastasia | - | 0.934 USD/h |
South India (IN) / southindia | - | 0.941 USD/h |
West India (IN) / westindia | - | 0.951 USD/h |
Japan West (JP) / japanwest | - | 0.958 USD/h |
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth | - | 0.998 USD/h |
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral | - | 0.998 USD/h |
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth | - | 1.075 USD/h |
France South (FR) / francesouth | - | 1.082 USD/h |
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest | - | 1.085 USD/h |
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest | - | 1.0977 USD/h |
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest | - | 1.098 USD/h |
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast | - | 1.398 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 16 |
Hypervisor | Microsoft Hyper-V |
CPU Allocation | Burstable |
CPU Cores | 16 |
CPU Speed | 2.6 GHz |
CPU Architecture | x86_64 |
CPU Manufacturer | Intel |
CPU Family | Xeon |
CPU Model | 8272CL |
CPU L1D Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1D Cache Total | 512 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 512 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 1 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 16 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache | 36 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache Total | 36 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 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 64 GiB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 131 GB |
Storages |
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| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Score: 1,091
Geekbench Multi-Core
Score: 9,099
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 20141 |
Compression | 291946 |
Encryption | 7414 |
Extended Instructions | 24594 |
Floating Point Maths | 46887 |
Integer Maths | 57601 |
Physics | 2117 |
Prime Numbers | 143 |
Single Threaded | 1797 |
String Sorting | 34822 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 2638 |
Database Operations | 10458 |
Memory Latency | 49 |
Memory Read Cached | 21391 |
Memory Read Uncached | 11057 |
Memory Write | 9997 |
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
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| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| B1ls | 1 | 0.5 GiB | 0 |
| B1s | 1 | 1 GiB | 0 |
| B1ms | 1 | 2 GiB | 0 |
| B2s | 2 | 4 GiB | 0 |
| B2ms | 2 | 8 GiB | 0 |
| B4ms | 4 | 16 GiB | 0 |
| B8ms | 8 | 32 GiB | 0 |
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