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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 0.0645 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
10806
(All-cores)
2703
(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
2026-08-02T14:01:29.479090

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
0.0645 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
0.1729 USD/h 0.303 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1729 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
0.1746 USD/h 0.306 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.1746 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
0.2129 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
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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 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

    0.531Score
    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 1,898,271 ops/sec 0.339 50.00% 50.00% -41.80%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,876,174 ops/sec 11,497,234 ops/sec 0.424 20.00% 20.00% -15.80%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,461 2,412 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 231,004 MB/sec 107,319 MB/sec 2.15 10.00% 10.00% +7.96%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,380 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.01 10.00% 10.00% +0.10%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,593

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,335

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11943
    Compression
    		 127748
    Encryption
    		 8632
    Extended Instructions
    		 7354
    Floating Point Maths
    		 18344
    Integer Maths
    		 33194
    Physics
    		 1469
    Prime Numbers
    		 78
    Single Threaded
    		 2380
    String Sorting
    		 18481

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2461
    Database Operations
    		 3691
    Memory Latency
    		 61
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24400
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 20706
    Memory Write
    		 20349

    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
    B8as_v2 832 GiB0
    B16als_v2 1632 GiB0

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