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D8s_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D8s_v6 is a Dsv6 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0504 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
7991
(All-cores)
1950
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D8s_v6
Name
D8s_v6
API Reference
Standard_D8s_v6
Description
Dsv6 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
Dsv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-21T01:39:06.429407

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0745 USD/h 0.403 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0745 USD/h 0.403 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0745 USD/h 0.403 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0745 USD/h 0.403 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.085 USD/h 0.403 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0784 USD/h 0.424 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.424 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.424 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0791 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0821 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.083 USD/h 0.449 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.083 USD/h 0.449 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.083 USD/h 0.449 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.083 USD/h 0.449 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0842 USD/h 0.456 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0857 USD/h 0.464 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0559 USD/h 0.466 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0869 USD/h 0.47 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0869 USD/h 0.47 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0869 USD/h 0.47 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0869 USD/h 0.47 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0893 USD/h 0.483 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0893 USD/h 0.483 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0893 USD/h 0.483 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0894 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.0894 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0894 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0894 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0894 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0902 USD/h 0.488 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0913 USD/h 0.494 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0504 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0931 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0931 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0931 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0954 USD/h 0.516 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0963 USD/h 0.521 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0963 USD/h 0.521 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0968 USD/h 0.524 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0991 USD/h 0.536 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0991 USD/h 0.536 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1024 USD/h 0.554 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.105 USD/h 0.568 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1066 USD/h 0.577 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1131 USD/h 0.612 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1161 USD/h 0.628 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1188 USD/h 0.643 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1188 USD/h 0.643 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1277 USD/h 0.691 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1281 USD/h 0.693 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1512 USD/h 0.818 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1543 USD/h 0.835 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
4.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8573C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
4.1
Scalability
102.5

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
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 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 Intel Xeon processors, strong single-core performance, and external premium storage compatibility.

    General Purpose

    The Microsoft Azure D8s_v6 is a general-purpose virtual machine powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz on the x86_64 architecture. It features 8 dedicated vCPUs and 32.0 GB of RAM, yielding a balanced 4.0 GB per vCPU. This instance does not include local storage or GPUs but is Premium Storage capable for external block storage. Benchmark results show strong single-core performance, particularly in text processing and single-threaded gzip compression, while multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics remain in the average tier. It exhibits weak performance for medium-sized LLM text generation. Qualitatively, the D8s_v6 provides a cost-effective, balanced hardware profile for workloads such as web serving, application hosting, and text processing that do not require local NVMe disks or GPU acceleration.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.879Score
    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) 1,569,196 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.827 50.00% 50.00% -9.06%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 7,826,690 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.678 20.00% 20.00% -7.48%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,412 2,411 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 133,382 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.24 10.00% 10.00% +2.17%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,925 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.24 10.00% 10.00% +2.17%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,162

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,304

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		14297
    Compression
    		139691
    Encryption
    		8465
    Extended Instructions
    		11525
    Floating Point Maths
    		27120
    Integer Maths
    		38247
    Physics
    		1842
    Prime Numbers
    		80
    Single Threaded
    		2925
    String Sorting
    		19433

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2412
    Database Operations
    		5298
    Memory Latency
    		57
    Memory Read Cached
    		26787
    Memory Read Uncached
    		10344
    Memory Write
    		9559

    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
    D2s_v6 28 GiB0
    D4s_v6 416 GiB0
    D16s_v6 1664 GiB0
    D32s_v6 32128 GiB0
    D48s_v6 48192 GiB0
    D64s_v6 64256 GiB0
    D96s_v6 96384 GiB0

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