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D8a_v4 by Microsoft Azure

D8a_v4 is a DAv4 family [AMD processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 205 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0437 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
205 GB Storage
Spare SCore
3079
(All-cores)
771
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D8a_v4
Name
D8a_v4
API Reference
Standard_D8a_v4
Description
DAv4 family [AMD processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
DAv4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-21T16:58:54.129979

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0437 USD/h 0.246 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.246 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.246 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.0673 USD/h 0.364 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.071 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.071 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.071 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.081 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.113 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0747 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0754 USD/h 0.408 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0769 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0769 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.0769 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0769 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0769 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.078 USD/h 0.422 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0791 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0791 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0794 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0798 USD/h 0.432 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0798 USD/h 0.432 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0802 USD/h 0.434 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0819 USD/h 0.443 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0594 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0828 USD/h 0.448 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0828 USD/h 0.448 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0828 USD/h 0.448 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0828 USD/h 0.448 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0839 USD/h 0.454 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.085 USD/h 0.46 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0852 USD/h 0.461 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1001 USD/h 0.461 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0859 USD/h 0.465 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.087 USD/h 0.471 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.087 USD/h 0.471 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0872 USD/h 0.472 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.048 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0887 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0887 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0887 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0894 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0909 USD/h 0.492 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0922 USD/h 0.499 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0939 USD/h 0.508 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0976 USD/h 0.528 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1 USD/h 0.541 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1 USD/h 0.541 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1015 USD/h 0.549 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1015 USD/h 0.549 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1076 USD/h 0.582 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1135 USD/h 0.612 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1135 USD/h 0.614 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.122 USD/h 0.66 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1319 USD/h 0.714 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1319 USD/h 0.714 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1471 USD/h 0.796 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
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, rep_good, nopl, cpuid, extd_apicid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, 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, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, xsaveerptr, arat, umip, vaes, vpclmulqdq, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
4
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    205 GB
    Storages
    • 205 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A balanced general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated AMD EPYC processing, moderate memory capacity, and integrated local storage for standard workloads.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure D8a_v4 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the DAv4 family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is configured with an x86_64 AMD EPYC 7763 processor featuring 8 dedicated vCPUs (4 physical cores), a 3.525 GHz clock speed, and 32 MB of L3 cache. The system includes 32.0 GB of RAM and 205 GB of local storage, with no GPU acceleration. Performance benchmarks place this instance in the average tier for most tasks, including Redis operations, static web serving, and Geekbench suites, though it exhibits weaker results in stress-ng CPU tests and large-block memory writes. Qualitatively, the D8a_v4 provides a balanced resource profile for standard workloads. It is well-suited for general-purpose applications, static web serving, database operations, and software compilation, while being less optimal for highly intensive compute or multi-threaded processing tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.455Score
    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) 633,007 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.334 50.00% 50.00% -42.20%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,784,335 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.415 20.00% 20.00% -16.10%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,605 2,411 1.08 10.00% 10.00% +0.77%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 51,866 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.483 10.00% 10.00% -7.02%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,429 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.03 10.00% 10.00% +0.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,561

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,259

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		11955
    Compression
    		128606
    Encryption
    		8676
    Extended Instructions
    		7420
    Floating Point Maths
    		18438
    Integer Maths
    		33382
    Physics
    		1309
    Prime Numbers
    		78
    Single Threaded
    		2429
    String Sorting
    		18243

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2605
    Database Operations
    		3594
    Memory Latency
    		63
    Memory Read Cached
    		24643
    Memory Read Uncached
    		20821
    Memory Write
    		19894

    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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    D32a_v4 32128 GiB0
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    D64a_v4 64256 GiB0
    D96a_v4 96384 GiB0

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