E16-8ds_v6 by Microsoft Azure

E16-8ds_v6 is a Edsv6 family [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 945 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1568 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
945 GB Storage
Spare SCore
7,990
(All-cores)
1,951
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E16-8ds_v6
Name
E16-8ds_v6
API Reference
Standard_E16-8ds_v6
Description
Edsv6 family [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
Edsv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-27T07:07:06.386438

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2417 USD/h 1.308 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2417 USD/h 1.308 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2417 USD/h 1.308 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2417 USD/h 1.308 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2731 USD/h 1.308 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.2478 USD/h 1.341 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.2478 USD/h 1.341 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2495 USD/h 1.35 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.35 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.35 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.2498 USD/h 1.352 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2571 USD/h 1.391 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2648 USD/h 1.433 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2648 USD/h 1.433 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2659 USD/h 1.439 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2685 USD/h 1.453 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2705 USD/h 1.464 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.2705 USD/h 1.464 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2714 USD/h 1.478 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2779 USD/h 1.504 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.2455 USD/h 1.537 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.284 USD/h 1.537 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.284 USD/h 1.537 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.284 USD/h 1.537 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.284 USD/h 1.537 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1568 USD/h 1.568 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.2898 USD/h 1.568 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2898 USD/h 1.568 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2901 USD/h 1.57 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2901 USD/h 1.57 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.2912 USD/h 1.576 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.2912 USD/h 1.576 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2912 USD/h 1.576 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.2916 USD/h 1.578 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2916 USD/h 1.578 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2916 USD/h 1.578 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.2916 USD/h 1.578 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2916 USD/h 1.578 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2916 USD/h 1.578 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2916 USD/h 1.578 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.2925 USD/h 1.583 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2973 USD/h 1.609 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.3042 USD/h 1.646 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.3094 USD/h 1.674 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.3143 USD/h 1.701 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.3216 USD/h 1.74 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.3216 USD/h 1.74 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.3325 USD/h 1.799 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.3384 USD/h 1.831 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.3408 USD/h 1.844 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.3458 USD/h 1.871 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.3692 USD/h 1.998 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.3792 USD/h 2.052 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3857 USD/h 2.087 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.3868 USD/h 2.093 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.4171 USD/h 2.257 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.4191 USD/h 2.268 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.4239 USD/h 2.294 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.5014 USD/h 2.713 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
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    945 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 945 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized server featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing, high RAM-to-core density, and fast local NVMe SSD storage.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    The Microsoft Azure E16-8ds_v6 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the Edsv6 family, powered by a dedicated 4.2 GHz Intel Xeon 8573C processor with 8 vCPUs and 4 physical cores. It features 128.0 GB of RAM, offering a high memory-to-core ratio of 16.0 GB per core, alongside a 945 GB local NVMe SSD. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this x86_64 instance delivers strong single-core performance, highlighted by a Geekbench single-core score of 2154.0 and 31.38 GB/sec in gzip compression. While multi-core and database benchmarks sit in the average tier, the server is highly efficient for memory-bound workloads. However, it shows performance tradeoffs in larger LLM inference tasks. The E16-8ds_v6 is best suited for in-memory databases, caching layers, text processing, and memory-intensive enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.86Score
    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) 1,561,155 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.84 50.00% 50.00% -8.30%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 7,806,062 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.65 20.00% 20.00% -8.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,146 2,416 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 126,305 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,918 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,154

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,272

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 14,249
    Compression
    		 140,388
    Encryption
    		 8,492
    Extended Instructions
    		 11,533
    Floating Point Maths
    		 27,096
    Integer Maths
    		 38,232
    Physics
    		 1,819
    Prime Numbers
    		 76
    Single Threaded
    		 2,918
    String Sorting
    		 19,144

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,146
    Database Operations
    		 4,990
    Memory Latency
    		 75
    Memory Read Cached
    		 26,103
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,741
    Memory Write
    		 9,051

    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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