E20pds_v5 by Microsoft Azure

E20pds_v5 is a EPDSv5 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 20 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 20 vCPUs, 160 GiB of memory and 768 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1515 USD per hour.
20 vCPU
160 GiB Memory
768 GB Storage
Spare SCore
36,030
(All-cores)
1,823
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E20pds_v5
Name
E20pds_v5
API Reference
Standard_E20pds_v5
API Reference Object
-
Description
EPDSv5 family [ARM processor] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 20 vCPUs
Family
EPDSv5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-18T14:33:25.262861

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1515 USD/h 0.82 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.82 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.82 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2129 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2129 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2129 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2129 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2435 USD/h 1.152 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2247 USD/h 1.216 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2338 USD/h 1.265 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2365 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2402 USD/h 1.3 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2405 USD/h 1.302 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2495 USD/h 1.35 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.2162 USD/h 1.354 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.255 USD/h 1.38 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.255 USD/h 1.38 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2554 USD/h 1.382 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2554 USD/h 1.382 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2569 USD/h 1.39 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2569 USD/h 1.39 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2569 USD/h 1.39 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2596 USD/h 1.405 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2824 USD/h 1.528 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
20
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
20
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
20 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
19.8
Scalability
99

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
160 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
160 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    768 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 768 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    An ARM-powered virtual machine featuring high memory density and local SSD storage for database and memory-intensive workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure E20pds_v5 is an ARM-based, memory-optimized virtual machine from the EPDSv5 family, powered by a 20-core Ampere Altra Neoverse-N1 processor running at 3.0 GHz. It features 160.0 GB of RAM, providing a generous 8.0 GB per core, alongside a bundled 768 GB local SSD. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this instance delivers balanced multi-core performance, as evidenced by a stress-ng multi-core score of 36030.32 and a Passmark database operations score of 13959.39. While single-threaded performance is relatively modest, the server excels in memory bandwidth, reaching 1405.13 GB/sec for cached reads. This resource configuration provides excellent qualitative cost efficiency for memory-intensive workloads. It is highly suited for database deployments, Redis caching, software compilation, and high-throughput web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.2Score
    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) 2,647,251 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 1.4 50.00% 50.00% +18.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 16,049,833 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 1.3 20.00% 20.00% +5.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,967 2,417 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 162,147 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,332 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,109

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 10,649

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 14046
    Compression
    		 112846
    Encryption
    		 3254
    Extended Instructions
    		 14780
    Floating Point Maths
    		 71342
    Integer Maths
    		 93734
    Physics
    		 2274
    Prime Numbers
    		 132
    Single Threaded
    		 1332
    String Sorting
    		 67461

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1967
    Database Operations
    		 13959
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 11379
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9002
    Memory Write
    		 15047

    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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    E16pds_v5 16128 GiB0
    E32pds_v5 32208 GiB0

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