DC32s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

DC32s_v3 is a DCSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3312 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
60,260
(All-cores)
1,898
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DC32s_v3
Name
DC32s_v3
API Reference
Standard_DC32s_v3
Description
DCSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
DCSv3
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-27T00:09:59.516370

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.3312 USD/h 1.792 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.34 USD/h 1.84 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.3778 USD/h 2.028 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.442 USD/h 2.392 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.4871 USD/h 2.636 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.5677 USD/h 3.072 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.5677 USD/h 3.072 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.6445 USD/h 3.072 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.5973 USD/h 3.232 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 3.232 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 3.232 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.6328 USD/h 3.424 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.6328 USD/h 3.424 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.6407 USD/h 3.471 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.6564 USD/h 3.552 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.6623 USD/h 3.584 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.6801 USD/h 3.68 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.6812 USD/h 3.686 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.7096 USD/h 3.84 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.7096 USD/h 3.84 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.7333 USD/h 3.968 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.7333 USD/h 3.968 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.8006 USD/h 4.332 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.8516 USD/h 4.608 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8370C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
40 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
48 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, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, sgx, 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, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, sgx_lc, fsrm, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
31.7
Scalability
99.06

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
436 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

      Server Description

      A dedicated 32-core Intel Xeon server with 256 GB RAM, optimized for secure database operations and high-throughput multi-threaded workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      The Microsoft Azure DC32s_v3 is a memory-optimized server from the DCSv3 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8370C processor with 32 dedicated physical cores and 32 vCPUs running at 2.8 GHz. It features 256.0 GB of RAM, translating to 8.0 GB per core, with no local storage or GPU accelerators. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the server demonstrates strong multi-threaded performance, particularly in PassMark database operations, static web serving throughput, and multi-threaded bzip3 decompression. Cryptographic workloads benefit from hardware-accelerated AES and SHA instructions. However, single-core performance and large-scale LLM text generation are relatively limited. This configuration is highly suited for memory-intensive applications, database hosting, and secure multi-threaded enterprise workloads.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      2.5Score
      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) 6,924,631 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 3.6 50.00% 50.00% +90.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 36,757,881 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 3.1 20.00% 20.00% +25.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,682 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 178,538 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 1.6 10.00% 10.00% +4.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,438 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,686

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 17,321

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 49,793
      Compression
      		 696,357
      Encryption
      		 36,895
      Extended Instructions
      		 52,726
      Floating Point Maths
      		 137,979
      Integer Maths
      		 167,414
      Physics
      		 4,336
      Prime Numbers
      		 328
      Single Threaded
      		 2,438
      String Sorting
      		 92,227

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,682
      Database Operations
      		 25,004
      Memory Latency
      		 58
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,523
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 12,081
      Memory Write
      		 11,033

      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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