E20s_v3 by Microsoft Azure
(All-cores)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | azure |
Server ID | Standard_E20s_v3 |
Name | E20s_v3 |
API Reference | Standard_E20s_v3 |
Description | ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 20 vCPUs |
Family | ESv3 |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-07-16T16:19:26.964424 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
North Central US (US) / northcentralus | 0.2328 USD/h | 1.26 USD/h |
West US 2 (US) / westus2 | 0.2328 USD/h | 1.26 USD/h |
West US 3 (US) / westus3 | 0.2328 USD/h | 1.26 USD/h |
East US (US) / eastus | 0.247 USD/h | 1.26 USD/h |
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral | 0.2282 USD/h | 1.34 USD/h |
Central India (IN) / centralindia | 0.2532 USD/h | 1.37 USD/h |
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral | - | 1.37 USD/h |
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest | - | 1.37 USD/h |
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral | 0.2561 USD/h | 1.386 USD/h |
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral | 0.2606 USD/h | 1.41 USD/h |
North Europe (IE) / northeurope | 0.2658 USD/h | 1.41 USD/h |
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral | 0.2661 USD/h | 1.44 USD/h |
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth | 0.2661 USD/h | 1.44 USD/h |
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest | 0.2661 USD/h | 1.44 USD/h |
Central US (US) / centralus | 0.2413 USD/h | 1.46 USD/h |
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast | 0.2698 USD/h | 1.46 USD/h |
South Central US (US) / southcentralus | 0.2698 USD/h | 1.46 USD/h |
West Central US (US) / westcentralus | 0.2698 USD/h | 1.46 USD/h |
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral | 0.5231 USD/h | 1.46 USD/h |
East US 2 (US) / eastus2 | 0.699 USD/h | 1.46 USD/h |
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral | 0.2735 USD/h | 1.48 USD/h |
Italy North (IT) / italynorth | 0.2735 USD/h | 1.48 USD/h |
West US (US) / westus | 0.2735 USD/h | 1.48 USD/h |
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2 | 0.1509 USD/h | 1.509 USD/h |
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral | 0.2789 USD/h | 1.509 USD/h |
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast | 0.2789 USD/h | 1.509 USD/h |
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast | 0.2789 USD/h | 1.509 USD/h |
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral | 0.2809 USD/h | 1.52 USD/h |
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral | 0.2809 USD/h | 1.52 USD/h |
West India (IN) / westindia | 0.2809 USD/h | 1.52 USD/h |
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral | 0.2864 USD/h | 1.55 USD/h |
UK South (GB) / uksouth | 0.1872 USD/h | 1.56 USD/h |
France Central (FR) / francecentral | 0.2883 USD/h | 1.56 USD/h |
UK West (GB) / ukwest | 0.2883 USD/h | 1.56 USD/h |
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth | 0.2929 USD/h | 1.585 USD/h |
Japan East (JP) / japaneast | 0.2957 USD/h | 1.6 USD/h |
Japan West (JP) / japanwest | 0.2957 USD/h | 1.6 USD/h |
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral | 0.2957 USD/h | 1.6 USD/h |
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia | 0.2957 USD/h | 1.6 USD/h |
West Europe (NL) / westeurope | 0.2957 USD/h | 1.6 USD/h |
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth | 0.2965 USD/h | 1.6 USD/h |
East Asia (HK) / eastasia | 0.3086 USD/h | 1.67 USD/h |
South India (IN) / southindia | 0.3086 USD/h | 1.67 USD/h |
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth | 0.3105 USD/h | 1.68 USD/h |
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast | 0.3252 USD/h | 1.76 USD/h |
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth | 0.3252 USD/h | 1.76 USD/h |
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth | 0.3652 USD/h | 1.976 USD/h |
France South (FR) / francesouth | 0.3654 USD/h | 2.028 USD/h |
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral | 0.3844 USD/h | 2.08 USD/h |
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest | 0.3891 USD/h | 2.1 USD/h |
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest | 0.4228 USD/h | 2.288 USD/h |
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest | 0.4228 USD/h | 2.288 USD/h |
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth | 0.4385 USD/h | 2.8 USD/h |
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast | 0.6031 USD/h | 3.64 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 20 |
Hypervisor | Microsoft Hyper-V |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 10 |
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 | 320 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 320 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 1 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 10 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 | 13.2 |
Scalability | 132 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 160 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 160 GiB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPU Memory Min | 0 MiB |
GPU Memory Total | 0 MiB |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 328 GB |
Storages |
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| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Server Description
A memory-optimized virtual machine offering high RAM capacity and balanced multi-core performance for database and enterprise workloads.
Microsoft Azure E20s_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the ESv3 family, featuring 20 dedicated vCPUs and 160.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz, this x86_64 instance provides 328 GB of local storage and supports Premium Storage, though it lacks GPU acceleration. Benchmark data indicates a performance tradeoff: single-core performance is weak, as shown by lower-tier Geekbench and stress-ng single-core scores, whereas multi-core performance and memory bandwidth consistently rank in the average tier. With a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8.0 GB per core, the E20s_v3 is qualitatively cost-effective for memory-heavy workloads rather than compute-bound tasks. It is best suited for database operations, caching layers like Redis, multi-threaded software compilation, and general enterprise applications requiring substantial memory capacity.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 17218 |
Compression | 221313 |
Encryption | 7619 |
Extended Instructions | 13822 |
Floating Point Maths | 30686 |
Integer Maths | 60020 |
Physics | 2125 |
Prime Numbers | 107 |
Single Threaded | 1737 |
String Sorting | 31516 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 2380 |
Database Operations | 7893 |
Memory Latency | 56 |
Memory Read Cached | 17474 |
Memory Read Uncached | 10881 |
Memory Write | 9831 |
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
Alternatives
Servers of the Same Family
| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| E2s_v3 | 2 | 16 GiB | 0 |
| E4-2s_v3 | 2 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| E8-2s_v3 | 2 | 64 GiB | 0 |
| E4s_v3 | 4 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| E8-4s_v3 | 4 | 64 GiB | 0 |
| E16-4s_v3 | 4 | 128 GiB | 0 |
| E8s_v3 | 8 | 64 GiB | 0 |
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