E16-8s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

E16-8s_v3 is a ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 262 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1277 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
262 GB Storage
Spare SCore
5,438
(All-cores)
945
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E16-8s_v3
Name
E16-8s_v3
API Reference
Standard_E16-8s_v3
Description
ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
ESv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-06T17:00:23.567033

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1863 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2015 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.3668 USD/h 1.064 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1979 USD/h 1.072 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2025 USD/h 1.096 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.096 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.096 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2049 USD/h 1.109 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.207 USD/h 1.12 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2085 USD/h 1.128 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.2085 USD/h 1.128 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.2129 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2129 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.2129 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2155 USD/h 1.166 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2155 USD/h 1.166 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1962 USD/h 1.167 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2158 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3347 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2188 USD/h 1.184 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2188 USD/h 1.184 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2242 USD/h 1.21 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2247 USD/h 1.216 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2247 USD/h 1.216 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.2247 USD/h 1.216 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2293 USD/h 1.241 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.2195 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2306 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.2306 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.2343 USD/h 1.268 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1277 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.236 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.236 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.236 USD/h 1.277 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2465 USD/h 1.334 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2469 USD/h 1.336 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2484 USD/h 1.344 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2602 USD/h 1.408 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2602 USD/h 1.408 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.2691 USD/h 1.456 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2905 USD/h 1.572 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.2922 USD/h 1.581 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2996 USD/h 1.621 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.3113 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.3382 USD/h 1.83 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3383 USD/h 1.8306 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3472 USD/h 1.879 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.4517 USD/h 2.444 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8272CL
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
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 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, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, vnmi, md_clear
Ecpus
5.8
Scalability
72.5

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
    262 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 262 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring high RAM capacity per core for database systems and in-memory workloads requiring reduced CPU overhead.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure E16-8s_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine instance in the ESv3 family powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor at 2.6 GHz. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, it features 8 dedicated vCPUs across 4 physical cores, 128.0 GB of RAM, and 262 GB of local temporary SSD storage. Memory bandwidth performance falls within the average benchmark tier, delivering cached read rates up to 365.97 GB/sec and achieving 6.25 million operations per second in Redis SET tests. Compute benchmarks indicate lower CPU throughput, placing single-core performance in the bottom tier. The high RAM-to-vCPU density makes this server cost-efficient for memory-heavy applications where software licensing overhead is constrained by core count. Suitable workloads include relational database servers, in-memory key-value stores, and data processing tasks requiring substantial memory buffers without demanding high CPU performance.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.4Score
    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) 590,133 ops/sec 1,936,298 ops/sec 0.31 50.00% 50.00% -44.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,889,182 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 0.33 20.00% 20.00% -20.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,475 2,407 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 45,044 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.41 10.00% 10.00% -8.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,781 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,047

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 4,109

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 7,627
    Compression
    		 98,072
    Encryption
    		 3,025
    Extended Instructions
    		 7,011
    Floating Point Maths
    		 11,778
    Integer Maths
    		 21,927
    Physics
    		 869
    Prime Numbers
    		 47
    Single Threaded
    		 1,781
    String Sorting
    		 11,568

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,475
    Database Operations
    		 2,709
    Memory Latency
    		 50
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,349
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,646
    Memory Write
    		 10,240

    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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