E32-8ds_v4 by Microsoft Azure

E32-8ds_v4 is a EDSv4 family [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 1.23 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2784 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
1.23 TB Storage
Spare SCore
7,439
(All-cores)
1,418
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E32-8ds_v4
Name
E32-8ds_v4
API Reference
Standard_E32-8ds_v4
Description
EDSv4 family [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
EDSv4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-05T11:24:17.335137

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.4258 USD/h 2.304 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.4258 USD/h 2.304 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.4269 USD/h 2.304 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.4843 USD/h 2.304 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.788 USD/h 2.304 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.4465 USD/h 2.416 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.4832 USD/h 2.416 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 2.416 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 2.416 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.4631 USD/h 2.506 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.4631 USD/h 2.506 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.4672 USD/h 2.528 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.8312 USD/h 2.528 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.4683 USD/h 2.534 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.4731 USD/h 2.56 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.4969 USD/h 2.56 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.479 USD/h 2.592 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.4817 USD/h 2.604 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.4866 USD/h 2.633 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.4967 USD/h 2.688 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.4967 USD/h 2.688 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.4751 USD/h 2.704 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.4997 USD/h 2.704 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.511 USD/h 2.765 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.511 USD/h 2.765 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.5115 USD/h 2.768 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.5115 USD/h 2.768 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.5115 USD/h 2.768 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.5115 USD/h 2.768 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.5115 USD/h 2.768 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.5115 USD/h 2.768 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.5115 USD/h 2.768 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.5136 USD/h 2.779 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.2784 USD/h 2.784 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.5145 USD/h 2.784 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.5145 USD/h 2.784 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.5145 USD/h 2.784 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.5162 USD/h 2.784 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.5152 USD/h 2.788 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.5174 USD/h 2.8 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.5204 USD/h 2.816 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.5204 USD/h 2.816 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.54 USD/h 2.922 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.5535 USD/h 2.995 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.5618 USD/h 3.04 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.5627 USD/h 3.0448 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.5627 USD/h 3.045 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.5633 USD/h 3.048 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.5649 USD/h 3.057 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.5962 USD/h 3.226 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.6472 USD/h 3.502 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.6642 USD/h 3.594 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.6679 USD/h 3.614 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.6742 USD/h 3.648 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.7154 USD/h 3.871 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.7314 USD/h 3.958 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.7431 USD/h 4.021 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.883 USD/h 4.778 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, vnmi, avx512_vnni, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
5.2
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    1229 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 1229 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-dense virtual server featuring an exceptional RAM-to-vCPU ratio and built-in local SSD storage for memory-intensive enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure E32-8ds_v4 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the EDSv4 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture and managed via Microsoft Hyper-V, this instance provides 8 dedicated vCPUs paired with an expansive 256.0 GB of RAM and 1229 GB of local SSD storage. Benchmark results show average performance across standard compute and memory tasks, including a Geekbench multi-core score of 4842.0 and a Redis throughput of 7.09 million SET operations per second. However, it exhibits weaker performance in multi-threaded decompression and medium LLM inference. This configuration is highly efficient for memory-intensive workloads, such as relational databases, in-memory caches, and data processing tasks requiring high memory density relative to compute resources.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.45Score
    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) 709,487 ops/sec 1,933,252 ops/sec 0.37 50.00% 50.00% -39.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,521,725 ops/sec 11,794,699 ops/sec 0.38 20.00% 20.00% -18.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,394 2,408 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 46,329 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.42 10.00% 10.00% -8.30%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,086 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,272

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 4,842

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 8,665
    Compression
    		 111,222
    Encryption
    		 3,456
    Extended Instructions
    		 7,667
    Floating Point Maths
    		 13,382
    Integer Maths
    		 24,899
    Physics
    		 942
    Prime Numbers
    		 56
    Single Threaded
    		 2,086
    String Sorting
    		 13,239

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,394
    Database Operations
    		 2,796
    Memory Latency
    		 57
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24,912
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,071
    Memory Write
    		 9,650

    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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