E16pds_v6 by Microsoft Azure

E16pds_v6 is a Epdsv6 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 945 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1157 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
945 GB Storage
Spare SCore
33,148
(All-cores)
2,073
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E16pds_v6
Name
E16pds_v6
API Reference
Standard_E16pds_v6
Description
Epdsv6 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
Epdsv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-03T02:16:16.584575

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1157 USD/h 0.614 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.173 USD/h 0.936 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.173 USD/h 0.936 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.173 USD/h 0.936 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.173 USD/h 0.936 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.4355 USD/h 0.936 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1879 USD/h 0.997 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1902 USD/h 1.029 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1922 USD/h 1.04 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1922 USD/h 1.04 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1931 USD/h 1.045 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.3124 USD/h 1.045 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2254 USD/h 1.058 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1901 USD/h 1.078 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2011 USD/h 1.088 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.202 USD/h 1.093 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.202 USD/h 1.093 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.2024 USD/h 1.095 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2066 USD/h 1.118 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2169 USD/h 1.118 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2412 USD/h 1.118 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2075 USD/h 1.123 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2075 USD/h 1.123 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.209 USD/h 1.131 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.211 USD/h 1.142 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2155 USD/h 1.166 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2262 USD/h 1.166 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2223 USD/h 1.203 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.2227 USD/h 1.205 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.2247 USD/h 1.216 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.2249 USD/h 1.217 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.2249 USD/h 1.217 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.2249 USD/h 1.217 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2253 USD/h 1.219 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.2262 USD/h 1.224 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.238 USD/h 1.288 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2425 USD/h 1.312 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2473 USD/h 1.338 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2611 USD/h 1.413 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2696 USD/h 1.459 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2746 USD/h 1.486 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.3149 USD/h 1.704 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3217 USD/h 1.741 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.3217 USD/h 1.741 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
3.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
Microsoft
CPU Family
ARM
CPU Model
Neoverse-N2
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
128 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
128 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, jscvt, fcma, lrcpc, dcpop, sha3, sm3, sm4, asimddp, sha512, sve, asimdfhm, uscat, ilrcpc, flagm, ssbs, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svebitperm, svesha3, svesm4, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16
Ecpus
16
Scalability
100

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

    An ARM-powered virtual machine featuring high memory density, top-tier memory bandwidth, and fast local NVMe SSD storage for database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure E16pds_v6 is an ARM-based virtual machine from the Epdsv6 family, featuring 16 dedicated physical cores powered by a 3.4 GHz Microsoft Neoverse-N2 processor. It is configured with 128.0 GB of RAM, yielding a high 8.0 GB per core ratio, and includes 945 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this server delivers top-tier memory performance, as evidenced by its strong large-block memory bandwidth of 304.72 GB/sec read and 123.05 GB/sec write. While general compute and multi-threaded decompression benchmarks sit in the average range, its high memory density and fast local storage make it highly cost-efficient for memory-intensive applications. It is best suited for database operations, caching systems, and memory-optimized enterprise workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.5Score
    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) 2,811,691 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 1.5 50.00% 50.00% +22.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 18,436,700 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 1.5 20.00% 20.00% +8.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,369 2,415 1.4 10.00% 10.00% +3.40%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 395,222 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 3.6 10.00% 10.00% +14.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,880 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,645

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 14,685

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 14,757
    Compression
    		 109,918
    Encryption
    		 3,014
    Extended Instructions
    		 14,316
    Floating Point Maths
    		 84,778
    Integer Maths
    		 100,915
    Physics
    		 5,161
    Prime Numbers
    		 222
    Single Threaded
    		 1,880
    String Sorting
    		 82,021

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 3,369
    Database Operations
    		 19,325
    Memory Latency
    		 52
    Memory Read Cached
    		 25,577
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 19,694
    Memory Write
    		 25,716

    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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