D8s_v7 by Microsoft Azure

D8s_v7 is a Dsv7 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 0.0939 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
9,308
(All-cores)
2,276
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D8s_v7
Name
D8s_v7
API Reference
Standard_D8s_v7
Description
Dsv7 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
Dsv7
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
14
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-19T19:28:18.445087

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0939 USD/h 0.508 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0978 USD/h 0.529 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0978 USD/h 0.529 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0978 USD/h 0.529 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0978 USD/h 0.529 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0978 USD/h 0.529 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0994 USD/h 0.538 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.104 USD/h 0.563 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1079 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1085 USD/h 0.587 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1127 USD/h 0.61 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1129 USD/h 0.611 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1135 USD/h 0.614 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1173 USD/h 0.635 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1173 USD/h 0.635 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1173 USD/h 0.635 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1173 USD/h 0.635 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1179 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1205 USD/h 0.652 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1205 USD/h 0.652 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.122 USD/h 0.66 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1275 USD/h 0.69 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1292 USD/h 0.699 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1565 USD/h 0.847 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
6973P-C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
480 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
480 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, tsc_known_freq, 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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A balanced general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon compute, a 480 MB L3 cache, and premium remote storage compatibility.

    General Purpose

    The Microsoft Azure D8s_v7 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the Dsv7 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 6973P-C processor running at 4.2 GHz on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. This x86_64 instance features 8 dedicated vCPUs (4 physical cores), 32.0 GB of RAM, and a 480 MB L3 cache. It lacks local storage and GPUs but supports Premium Storage for remote disks. Performance benchmarks show strong single-threaded capabilities, with gzip compression reaching a top-tier 36.55 GB/sec and small-model LLM text generation achieving a strong 271.19 tokens/sec. Other metrics, such as Redis SET operations (16.48 million ops/sec) and static web serving (17.16 GB/sec), fall into the average range. The D8s_v7 is appropriate for general-purpose workloads, database operations, and web serving where a balanced vCPU-to-RAM ratio and dedicated compute resources are required.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.985Score
    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) 1,775,388 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.925 50.00% 50.00% -3.82%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,254,113 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.874 20.00% 20.00% -2.66%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,457 2,418 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 118,409 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 1.09 10.00% 10.00% +0.87%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,534 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.49 10.00% 10.00% +4.07%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 16761
    Compression
    		 177185
    Encryption
    		 9874
    Extended Instructions
    		 11633
    Floating Point Maths
    		 32208
    Integer Maths
    		 44433
    Physics
    		 2052
    Prime Numbers
    		 97
    Single Threaded
    		 3534
    String Sorting
    		 23095

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2457
    Database Operations
    		 4830
    Memory Latency
    		 71
    Memory Read Cached
    		 30245
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 19195
    Memory Write
    		 8555

    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_v7 28 GiB0
    D4s_v7 416 GiB0
    D16s_v7 1664 GiB0
    D32s_v7 32128 GiB0
    D48s_v7 48192 GiB0
    D64s_v7 64256 GiB0
    D96s_v7 96384 GiB0

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