E32-16s_v6 by Microsoft Azure
(All-cores)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | azure |
Server ID | Standard_E32-16s_v6 |
Name | E32-16s_v6 |
API Reference | Standard_E32-16s_v6 |
Description | Esv6 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs |
Family | Esv6 |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-06-24T02:13:44.266987 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
East US 2 (US) / eastus2 | 0.3912 USD/h | 2.117 USD/h |
North Central US (US) / northcentralus | 0.3912 USD/h | 2.117 USD/h |
West US 2 (US) / westus2 | 0.3912 USD/h | 2.117 USD/h |
West US 3 (US) / westus3 | 0.3912 USD/h | 2.117 USD/h |
East US (US) / eastus | 0.4391 USD/h | 2.117 USD/h |
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral | 0.4012 USD/h | 2.171 USD/h |
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest | 0.4012 USD/h | 2.171 USD/h |
Central India (IN) / centralindia | 0.4036 USD/h | 2.184 USD/h |
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral | - | 2.184 USD/h |
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest | - | 2.184 USD/h |
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral | 0.416 USD/h | 2.251 USD/h |
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral | 0.4284 USD/h | 2.318 USD/h |
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast | 0.4284 USD/h | 2.318 USD/h |
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral | 0.4304 USD/h | 2.329 USD/h |
West US (US) / westus | 0.4346 USD/h | 2.352 USD/h |
North Europe (IE) / northeurope | 0.4378 USD/h | 2.369 USD/h |
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral | 0.4378 USD/h | 2.369 USD/h |
Central US (US) / centralus | 0.4298 USD/h | 2.392 USD/h |
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth | 0.4498 USD/h | 2.434 USD/h |
UK South (GB) / uksouth | 0.2983 USD/h | 2.486 USD/h |
France Central (FR) / francecentral | 0.4594 USD/h | 2.486 USD/h |
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral | 0.4594 USD/h | 2.486 USD/h |
Italy North (IT) / italynorth | 0.4594 USD/h | 2.486 USD/h |
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral | 0.4594 USD/h | 2.486 USD/h |
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2 | 0.2537 USD/h | 2.537 USD/h |
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral | 0.4688 USD/h | 2.537 USD/h |
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast | 0.4688 USD/h | 2.537 USD/h |
South Central US (US) / southcentralus | 0.4694 USD/h | 2.54 USD/h |
West Central US (US) / westcentralus | 0.4694 USD/h | 2.54 USD/h |
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast | 0.472 USD/h | 2.554 USD/h |
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral | 0.472 USD/h | 2.554 USD/h |
Japan East (JP) / japaneast | 0.472 USD/h | 2.554 USD/h |
Japan West (JP) / japanwest | 0.472 USD/h | 2.554 USD/h |
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral | 0.472 USD/h | 2.554 USD/h |
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia | 0.472 USD/h | 2.554 USD/h |
West Europe (NL) / westeurope | 0.472 USD/h | 2.554 USD/h |
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral | 0.4731 USD/h | 2.56 USD/h |
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast | 0.4731 USD/h | 2.56 USD/h |
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral | 0.4731 USD/h | 2.56 USD/h |
UK West (GB) / ukwest | 0.4733 USD/h | 2.561 USD/h |
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth | 0.4812 USD/h | 2.604 USD/h |
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth | 0.4923 USD/h | 2.664 USD/h |
West India (IN) / westindia | 0.5006 USD/h | 2.709 USD/h |
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast | 0.5086 USD/h | 2.752 USD/h |
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth | 0.5202 USD/h | 2.815 USD/h |
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth | 0.5202 USD/h | 2.815 USD/h |
East Asia (HK) / eastasia | 0.538 USD/h | 2.911 USD/h |
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral | 0.5477 USD/h | 2.964 USD/h |
South India (IN) / southindia | 0.5516 USD/h | 2.985 USD/h |
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast | 0.5594 USD/h | 3.027 USD/h |
France South (FR) / francesouth | 0.5973 USD/h | 3.232 USD/h |
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth | 0.6135 USD/h | 3.32 USD/h |
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth | 0.6241 USD/h | 3.377 USD/h |
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral | 0.6261 USD/h | 3.388 USD/h |
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest | 0.6749 USD/h | 3.652 USD/h |
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest | 0.678 USD/h | 3.669 USD/h |
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest | 0.6862 USD/h | 3.713 USD/h |
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast | 0.8113 USD/h | 4.39 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 16 |
Hypervisor | Microsoft Hyper-V |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 8 |
CPU Speed | 4.2 GHz |
CPU Architecture | x86_64 |
CPU Manufacturer | Intel |
CPU Family | Xeon |
CPU Model | 8573C |
CPU L1D Cache | 48 KiB |
CPU L1D Cache Total | 384 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 256 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 2 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 16 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache | 260 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache Total | 260 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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities |
Ecpus | 8.2 |
Scalability | 102.5 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 256 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 256 GiB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPU Memory Min | 0 MiB |
GPU Memory Total | 0 MiB |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 0 GB |
Storages |
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| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Server Description
An x86_64 memory-optimized server featuring 256 GB of RAM and dedicated Intel Xeon processing for memory-intensive database and caching workloads.
The Microsoft Azure E32-16s_v6 is an x86_64 memory-optimized server from the Esv6 family, powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz. It features 16 vCPUs across 8 physical cores, paired with 256.0 GB of RAM, providing a high ratio of 16.0 GB of memory per vCPU. The server lacks local storage and GPUs but supports Premium Storage. Performance benchmarks indicate strong single-core capabilities, with Geekbench single-core and single-threaded gzip compression scores in the top 25%. However, the Passmark memory score falls in the bottom 25%, highlighting a tradeoff in memory subsystem performance. This server is configured for memory-intensive workloads, database operations, and caching systems like Redis, where high memory capacity is required without the need for local NVMe drives or hardware accelerators.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 26652 |
Compression | 276300 |
Encryption | 16918 |
Extended Instructions | 23326 |
Floating Point Maths | 54270 |
Integer Maths | 76549 |
Physics | 3690 |
Prime Numbers | 155 |
Single Threaded | 2916 |
String Sorting | 37887 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 1783 |
Database Operations | 7722 |
Memory Latency | 97 |
Memory Read Cached | 26600 |
Memory Read Uncached | 7486 |
Memory Write | 6879 |
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_v6 | 2 | 16 GiB | 0 |
| E4-2s_v6 | 2 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| E8-2s_v6 | 2 | 64 GiB | 0 |
| E4s_v6 | 4 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| E8-4s_v6 | 4 | 64 GiB | 0 |
| E16-4s_v6 | 4 | 128 GiB | 0 |
| E8s_v6 | 8 | 64 GiB | 0 |
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