B8als_v2 by Microsoft Azure

B8als_v2 is a Basv2 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.078 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
10,806
(All-cores)
2,703
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_B8als_v2
Name
B8als_v2
API Reference
Standard_B8als_v2
Description
Basv2 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 8 vCPUs
Family
Basv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
16
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-31T18:47:24.780113

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1566 USD/h 0.174 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.174 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.174 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2394 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2394 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2394 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2394 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2394 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2475 USD/h 0.275 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2601 USD/h 0.289 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.078 USD/h 0.293 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2664 USD/h 0.296 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2664 USD/h 0.296 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2394 USD/h 0.301 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2709 USD/h 0.301 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.2709 USD/h 0.301 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.2093 USD/h 0.303 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.2093 USD/h 0.303 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2736 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2736 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2745 USD/h 0.305 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.2113 USD/h 0.306 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.2113 USD/h 0.306 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2754 USD/h 0.306 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2754 USD/h 0.306 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2754 USD/h 0.306 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2754 USD/h 0.306 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2844 USD/h 0.316 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.288 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.288 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.288 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.2898 USD/h 0.322 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2988 USD/h 0.332 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.3006 USD/h 0.334 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.3033 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.3033 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.3033 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.3033 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.3033 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.3069 USD/h 0.341 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.3114 USD/h 0.346 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.3114 USD/h 0.346 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.3114 USD/h 0.346 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.3123 USD/h 0.347 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.3123 USD/h 0.347 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.3177 USD/h 0.353 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.3348 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.2576 USD/h 0.373 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.3384 USD/h 0.376 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.3519 USD/h 0.391 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.3582 USD/h 0.398 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.3744 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3861 USD/h 0.429 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.3942 USD/h 0.438 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3942 USD/h 0.438 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.405 USD/h 0.45 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.5013 USD/h 0.557 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Burstable
CPU Cores
4
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
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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
4
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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 CPU performance and cost-efficient resource scaling for variable workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetCompute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure B8als_v2 is a burstable virtual machine from the Basv2 family, utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is equipped with an x86_64 AMD EPYC 7763 processor running at 3.525 GHz, providing 8 vCPUs across 4 physical cores, and 16.0 GB of RAM. This configuration results in a low memory-to-core ratio of 2.0 GB per vCPU. The instance lacks local storage and GPUs but supports premium storage. Benchmarks show strong single-core CPU performance, while multi-core metrics, memory bandwidth, and web serving throughput remain average. Conversely, multi-threaded decompression and medium LLM prompt processing are relatively weak. Due to its burstable CPU allocation and low memory profile, the B8als_v2 offers a cost-effective solution for workloads with variable resource demands. It is best suited for lightweight web serving, development environments, and small-scale database operations.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.53Score
      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) 642,768 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.34 50.00% 50.00% -42.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,876,174 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.41 20.00% 20.00% -16.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,461 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 231,004 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 2.1 10.00% 10.00% +7.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,380 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,593

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 6,335

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 11,943
      Compression
      		 127,748
      Encryption
      		 8,632
      Extended Instructions
      		 7,354
      Floating Point Maths
      		 18,344
      Integer Maths
      		 33,194
      Physics
      		 1,469
      Prime Numbers
      		 78
      Single Threaded
      		 2,380
      String Sorting
      		 18,481

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,461
      Database Operations
      		 3,691
      Memory Latency
      		 61
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,400
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 20,706
      Memory Write
      		 20,349

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 244.64 242.61 0.99×
      bitops
      		 141,835 650,777 4.59×
      branch
      		 164,248 1,202,241 7.32×
      funccall
      		 541.08 2,790 5.16×
      funcret
      		 17,139 88,456 5.16×
      hash
      		 136,746 828,010 6.06×
      intmath
      		 58,294 314,958 5.40×
      nop
      		 283,240 1,133,355 4.00×
      prime
      		 393,847 1,928,204 4.90×
      rotate
      		 77,165 307,664 3.99×
      str
      		 785,897 4,051,371 5.16×
      wcs
      		 566,664 2,617,772 4.62×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,241 12,408 3.83×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 709.49 3,925 5.53×
      zlib
      		 56.06 390.93 6.97×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 3,780 27,135 7.18×
      clone
      		 1,251 3,875 3.10×
      context
      		 3,430 23,036 6.72×
      cpu-sched
      		 70.27 497.07 7.07×
      eventfd
      		 29,187 476,279 16.32×
      fault
      		 7,319 42,572 5.82×
      fork
      		 4,714 21,468 4.55×
      getrandom
      		 45,803 233,221 5.09×
      hrtimers
      		 69,682 472,583 6.78×
      mprotect
      		 1,070,032 1,531,492 1.43×
      mtx
      		 27,606,961 359,903,655 13.04×
      munmap
      		 2,992 15,675 5.24×
      null
      		 435,432 2,818,549 6.47×
      pipe
      		 1,758,455 3,548,822 2.02×
      priv-instr
      		 388,144 2,512,693 6.47×
      resched
      		 1,531,389 356,714 0.23×
      switch
      		 50,535 1,209,476 23.93×
      timermix
      		 41,948 345,629 8.24×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 18,334 26,414 1.44×
      tsc
      		 668,370 5,103,645 7.64×
      usersyscall
      		 311,982 1,995,387 6.40×
      vdso
      		 78,112,506 509,363,755 6.52×
      vfork
      		 26,386 122,270 4.63×
      x86syscall
      		 5,452,765 35,358,898 6.48×
      yield
      		 4,451,024 4,286,427 0.96×
      zero
      		 2,860,432 17,264,019 6.04×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 13,758 57,626 4.19×
      expmath
      		 2,541 16,167 6.36×
      fma
      		 779,177 4,902,705 6.29×
      fp
      		 227.73 1,330 5.84×
      fractal
      		 6.8 44.4 6.53×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,277 19,874 6.06×
      logmath
      		 3,875 22,131 5.71×
      matrix
      		 2,701 15,987 5.92×
      matrix-3d
      		 89.54 697.28 7.79×
      monte-carlo
      		 203.88 1,288 6.32×
      mpfr
      		 1,402 6,831 4.87×
      powmath
      		 1,219 7,934 6.51×
      trig
      		 1,493 9,179 6.15×
      veccmp
      		 16,059 83,763 5.22×
      vecfp
      		 1,478 8,108 5.49×
      vecmath
      		 3,433 21,936 6.39×
      vecshuf
      		 534.47 2,474 4.63×
      vecwide
      		 23,652 119,717 5.06×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8.8 36.8 4.18×
      bsearch
      		 264.53 1,364 5.15×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 4.8 6.00×
      fibsearch
      		 320.53 1,479 4.61×
      heapsort
      		 9.2 45.4 4.93×
      hsearch
      		 7,366 34,540 4.69×
      insertionsort
      		 11.6 46.4 4.00×
      malloc
      		 3,157,512 22,278,580 7.06×
      mcontend
      		 212.31 1,309 6.17×
      mergesort
      		 29 163.2 5.63×
      qsort
      		 19.2 105 5.47×
      skiplist
      		 6,211 37,682 6.07×
      tree
      		 1.8 8 4.44×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 655,722 1,383,768 2.11×
      cachehammer
      		 256,109 1,943,134 7.59×
      cacheline
      		 41.77 322.78 7.73×
      l1cache
      		 138.93 623.74 4.49×
      memcpy
      		 365.78 1,385 3.79×
      memrate
      		 2.95 4.69 1.59×
      memthrash
      		 90.12 354.01 3.93×
      ptr-chase
      		 62,400,464 89,085,598 1.43×
      spinmem
      		 263.79 331.57 1.26×
      stream
      		 102.87 1,366 13.28×
      vm
      		 147,929 291,834 1.97×

      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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