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E16pds_v5 by Microsoft Azure

E16pds_v5 is a EPDSv5 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 614 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1212 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
614 GB Storage
Spare SCore
28905
(All-cores)
1823
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E16pds_v5
Name
E16pds_v5
API Reference
Standard_E16pds_v5
Description
EPDSv5 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
EPDSv5
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
23
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-20T13:19:29.526062

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1212 USD/h 0.656 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.656 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.656 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1704 USD/h 0.922 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1704 USD/h 0.922 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1704 USD/h 0.922 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1704 USD/h 0.922 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1949 USD/h 0.922 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1798 USD/h 0.973 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.187 USD/h 1.012 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1892 USD/h 1.024 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1922 USD/h 1.04 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1923 USD/h 1.041 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1996 USD/h 1.08 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.13 USD/h 1.083 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.204 USD/h 1.104 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.204 USD/h 1.104 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2044 USD/h 1.106 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2044 USD/h 1.106 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2055 USD/h 1.112 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2055 USD/h 1.112 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2055 USD/h 1.112 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2077 USD/h 1.124 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2258 USD/h 1.222 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
Ampere
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-N1
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, lrcpc, dcpop, asimddp
Ecpus
15.9
Scalability
99.38

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    614 GB
    Storages
    • 614 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An ARM64 virtual machine featuring a high memory-to-core ratio and local storage for database and memory-intensive workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure E16pds_v5 is an ARM64 virtual machine from the EPDSv5 family, featuring 16 dedicated physical cores on an Ampere Neoverse-N1 processor running at 3.0 GHz. It is equipped with 128.0 GB of RAM, yielding a 1:8 vCPU-to-memory ratio, and includes 614 GB of local storage with Premium Storage capability. Benchmark data indicates average multi-core and memory performance, with a stress-ng multi-core score of 28904.71 and Redis SET operations at 21.74 million operations per second. However, single-core capabilities are a tradeoff, as shown by a weak Geekbench single-core score of 1087.0 and lower single-threaded decompression speeds. This memory-optimized configuration is suited for database operations, caching layers, and memory-intensive web serving workloads that benefit from dedicated ARM cores and local storage without requiring high single-threaded performance.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.04Score
    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) 2,195,448 ops/sec 1,895,870 ops/sec 1.16 50.00% 50.00% +7.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 12,986,274 ops/sec 11,503,938 ops/sec 1.13 20.00% 20.00% +2.47%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,883 2,410 0.781 10.00% 10.00% -2.44%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 129,985 MB/sec 107,331 MB/sec 1.21 10.00% 10.00% +1.92%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,330 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.563 10.00% 10.00% -5.58%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,087

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,470

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		11545
    Compression
    		90232
    Encryption
    		2590
    Extended Instructions
    		11870
    Floating Point Maths
    		57163
    Integer Maths
    		75074
    Physics
    		1838
    Prime Numbers
    		102
    Single Threaded
    		1330
    String Sorting
    		53912

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		1883
    Database Operations
    		10869
    Memory Latency
    		75
    Memory Read Cached
    		11370
    Memory Read Uncached
    		8688
    Memory Write
    		14784

    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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