D16s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

D16s_v3 is a DSv3 family [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 0.1 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
131 GB Storage
Spare SCore
10,824
(All-cores)
1,004
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D16s_v3
Name
D16s_v3
API Reference
Standard_D16s_v3
Description
DSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
DSv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-28T23:37:32.049424

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1419 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1419 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1505 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2941 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1478 USD/h 0.8 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1506 USD/h 0.816 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1552 USD/h 0.84 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.84 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.84 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1562 USD/h 0.845 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1582 USD/h 0.856 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1582 USD/h 0.856 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1455 USD/h 0.88 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1626 USD/h 0.88 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1626 USD/h 0.88 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1637 USD/h 0.886 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1641 USD/h 0.888 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2545 USD/h 0.888 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1656 USD/h 0.896 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1656 USD/h 0.896 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1656 USD/h 0.896 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1663 USD/h 0.9 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1663 USD/h 0.9 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.17 USD/h 0.92 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1484 USD/h 0.928 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1715 USD/h 0.928 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.173 USD/h 0.936 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1741 USD/h 0.942 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1774 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1779 USD/h 0.96 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1818 USD/h 0.984 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1818 USD/h 0.984 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1 USD/h 1 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1848 USD/h 1 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1848 USD/h 1 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1848 USD/h 1 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1848 USD/h 1 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1878 USD/h 1.016 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1907 USD/h 1.032 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1907 USD/h 1.032 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1951 USD/h 1.056 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1951 USD/h 1.056 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1951 USD/h 1.056 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2 USD/h 1.082 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.209 USD/h 1.131 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2153 USD/h 1.1648 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.221 USD/h 1.196 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2306 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2353 USD/h 1.27 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2351 USD/h 1.272 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.2537 USD/h 1.373 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.2538 USD/h 1.3732 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.3057 USD/h 1.654 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 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, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, vnmi, md_clear
Ecpus
10.8
Scalability
67.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    131 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 131 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A balanced general-purpose instance featuring dedicated Intel Xeon cores, local SSD storage, and stable multi-threaded performance for enterprise workloads.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D16s_v3 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the DSv3 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor with 16 dedicated vCPUs and 64.0 GB of RAM. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this x86_64 instance includes 131 GB of local SSD storage and supports Premium Storage. Benchmark data reveals a significant performance tradeoff: single-core CPU execution and single-threaded compression tasks are weak, placing in the bottom 10% to 25%, whereas multi-core performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations consistently achieve average tier results. With a balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio, the D16s_v3 is best suited for general-purpose enterprise workloads, static web serving, and moderate database operations that benefit from multi-threaded scaling rather than raw single-core speed.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.67Score
    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) 1,198,812 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.63 50.00% 50.00% -21.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 7,675,149 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.64 20.00% 20.00% -8.50%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,146 2,416 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 86,128 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.78 10.00% 10.00% -2.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,497 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,058

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,842

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11,791
    Compression
    		 161,676
    Encryption
    		 4,980
    Extended Instructions
    		 11,416
    Floating Point Maths
    		 19,478
    Integer Maths
    		 36,227
    Physics
    		 1,296
    Prime Numbers
    		 68
    Single Threaded
    		 1,497
    String Sorting
    		 18,987

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,146
    Database Operations
    		 4,481
    Memory Latency
    		 59
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18,482
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8,654
    Memory Write
    		 7,943

    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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