B8pls_v2 by Microsoft Azure

B8pls_v2 is a Bpsv2 family [ARM 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 0.1431 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
14,490
(All-cores)
1,822
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_B8pls_v2
Name
B8pls_v2
API Reference
Standard_B8pls_v2
Description
Bpsv2 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 8 vCPUs
Family
Bpsv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-30T13:08:39.215040

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1431 USD/h 0.159 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.159 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.159 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1917 USD/h 0.213 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2142 USD/h 0.238 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2142 USD/h 0.238 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2142 USD/h 0.238 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2142 USD/h 0.238 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2196 USD/h 0.244 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2349 USD/h 0.261 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2349 USD/h 0.261 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2394 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.2394 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2134 USD/h 0.269 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2448 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2448 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2547 USD/h 0.283 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2574 USD/h 0.286 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2574 USD/h 0.286 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2691 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.27 USD/h 0.3 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.27 USD/h 0.3 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2754 USD/h 0.306 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2961 USD/h 0.329 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Burstable
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
Ampere
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-N1
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, lrcpc, dcpop, asimddp
Ecpus
8
Scalability
100

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 ARM64 virtual machine with eight cores and low memory density, designed for cost-efficient handling of variable workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetCompute Optimized

      Microsoft Azure B8pls_v2 is a burstable virtual machine from the Bpsv2 family, utilizing an ARM64 Ampere Altra Neoverse-N1 processor with 8 physical cores and 8 vCPUs running at 3.0 GHz. It is equipped with 16.0 GB of RAM, providing a low memory-to-core ratio of 2.0 GB per vCPU, and contains no local storage. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this instance is premium storage capable. Performance benchmarks show average multi-core capabilities, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 6176.0 and a static web serving throughput of 10.06 GB/sec, though single-core and cryptographic performance are weaker. This burstable resource profile makes the B8pls_v2 a cost-efficient option for workloads with fluctuating CPU demands, such as lightweight database operations, software compilation, and static web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.61Score
      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) 1,064,811 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.58 50.00% 50.00% -24.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,889,260 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.57 20.00% 20.00% -11.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,749 2,416 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 89,946 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.82 10.00% 10.00% -2.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,333 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,100

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 6,176

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6,248
      Compression
      		 44,885
      Encryption
      		 1,302
      Extended Instructions
      		 5,963
      Floating Point Maths
      		 28,715
      Integer Maths
      		 37,705
      Physics
      		 1,263
      Prime Numbers
      		 73
      Single Threaded
      		 1,333
      String Sorting
      		 27,501

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,749
      Database Operations
      		 5,727
      Memory Latency
      		 70
      Memory Read Cached
      		 11,378
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,131
      Memory Write
      		 15,029

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 79.95 60.07 0.75×
      bitops
      		 108,466 863,665 7.96×
      branch
      		 220,891 1,745,065 7.90×
      funccall
      		 1,339 10,666 7.97×
      funcret
      		 20,653 166,154 8.04×
      hash
      		 128,160 1,020,297 7.96×
      intmath
      		 30,999 246,918 7.97×
      nop
      		 173,189 1,372,400 7.92×
      prime
      		 336,836 2,677,442 7.95×
      rotate
      		 92,847 765,130 8.24×
      str
      		 515,326 4,095,954 7.95×
      wcs
      		 119,038 943,856 7.93×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,897 22,559 7.79×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 521.97 4,145 7.94×
      zlib
      		 36.07 285.09 7.90×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 21,658 132,895 6.14×
      clone
      		 207.97 1,149 5.53×
      context
      		 2,611 20,634 7.90×
      cpu-sched
      		 58.44 508.75 8.71×
      eventfd
      		 47,149 713,609 15.14×
      fault
      		 13,491 83,893 6.22×
      fork
      		 3,438 21,238 6.18×
      getrandom
      		 49,158 389,802 7.93×
      hrtimers
      		 360,290 966,688 2.68×
      mprotect
      		 752,938 2,670,183 3.55×
      mtx
      		 10,436,906 372,249,385 35.67×
      munmap
      		 2,434 16,976 6.97×
      null
      		 462,834 3,674,536 7.94×
      pipe
      		 672,911 4,677,770 6.95×
      priv-instr
      		 733,819 5,274,498 7.19×
      resched
      		 3,014,290 1,304,489 0.43×
      switch
      		 76,881 2,368,391 30.81×
      timermix
      		 400,621 3,193,292 7.97×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 4,445 7,356 1.65×
      vdso
      		 46,818,122 372,078,994 7.95×
      vfork
      		 22,088 100,339 4.54×
      yield
      		 7,075,381 6,911,767 0.98×
      zero
      		 2,075,899 16,575,020 7.98×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 1,316 10,537 8.01×
      expmath
      		 235.35 1,914 8.13×
      fma
      		 639,361 5,049,320 7.90×
      fp
      		 102.09 824.2 8.07×
      fractal
      		 6.6 51.2 7.76×
      hyperbolic
      		 243.81 1,947 7.99×
      logmath
      		 293.62 2,341 7.97×
      matrix
      		 5,349 42,576 7.96×
      matrix-3d
      		 524.56 3,393 6.47×
      monte-carlo
      		 193.06 1,534 7.95×
      mpfr
      		 641.83 5,111 7.96×
      powmath
      		 176.54 1,407 7.97×
      trig
      		 329.64 2,622 7.95×
      veccmp
      		 17,159 136,493 7.95×
      vecfp
      		 744.16 5,932 7.97×
      vecmath
      		 3,091 24,591 7.96×
      vecshuf
      		 672.17 5,341 7.95×
      vecwide
      		 18,410 146,107 7.94×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 5.4 43 7.96×
      bsearch
      		 258.39 2,060 7.97×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 6.2 7.75×
      fibsearch
      		 273.52 2,176 7.96×
      heapsort
      		 8.2 65.6 8.00×
      hsearch
      		 4,908 38,974 7.94×
      insertionsort
      		 4.6 36 7.83×
      malloc
      		 2,375,875 15,324,377 6.45×
      mcontend
      		 224.16 15,877 70.83×
      mergesort
      		 28 217.99 7.79×
      qsort
      		 19.4 154.39 7.96×
      skiplist
      		 5,366 42,359 7.89×
      tree
      		 1 6.4 6.40×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 327,010 590,621 1.81×
      cachehammer
      		 129,827 399,187 3.07×
      cacheline
      		 42.13 356.45 8.46×
      l1cache
      		 182.39 1,445 7.92×
      memcpy
      		 442.96 3,535 7.98×
      memrate
      		 3.15 17.85 5.67×
      memthrash
      		 91.21 190.51 2.09×
      ptr-chase
      		 11,393,625 78,098,126 6.85×
      spinmem
      		 716.56 1,170 1.63×
      stream
      		 67.78 2,926 43.18×
      vm
      		 61,447 539,146 8.77×

      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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      B2ps_v2 28 GiB0
      B4pls_v2 48 GiB0
      B4ps_v2 416 GiB0
      B8ps_v2 832 GiB0
      B16pls_v2 1632 GiB0

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