E32-8s_v4 by Microsoft Azure

E32-8s_v4 is a ESv4 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2416 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
7,444
(All-cores)
1,432
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E32-8s_v4
Name
E32-8s_v4
API Reference
Standard_E32-8s_v4
Description
ESv4 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
ESv4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-03T02:16:16.588697

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.3726 USD/h 2.016 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.3726 USD/h 2.016 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.3726 USD/h 2.016 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.4244 USD/h 2.016 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.7121 USD/h 2.016 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.3844 USD/h 2.08 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.3844 USD/h 2.08 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 2.08 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 2.08 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.3962 USD/h 2.144 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.4045 USD/h 2.189 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.4045 USD/h 2.189 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.408 USD/h 2.208 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.4926 USD/h 2.208 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.4099 USD/h 2.218 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.414 USD/h 2.24 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.4169 USD/h 2.256 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.4169 USD/h 2.256 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.4219 USD/h 2.278 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.4258 USD/h 2.304 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.4165 USD/h 2.368 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.4376 USD/h 2.368 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.4376 USD/h 2.368 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.4376 USD/h 2.368 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.2416 USD/h 2.416 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.4465 USD/h 2.416 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.4465 USD/h 2.416 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.447 USD/h 2.419 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.447 USD/h 2.419 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.4507 USD/h 2.439 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.4587 USD/h 2.482 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.4587 USD/h 2.482 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.469 USD/h 2.538 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.4844 USD/h 2.621 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.4929 USD/h 2.667 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.4938 USD/h 2.672 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.4943 USD/h 2.675 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.4943 USD/h 2.675 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.4952 USD/h 2.6752 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.4967 USD/h 2.688 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.5215 USD/h 2.822 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.5662 USD/h 3.064 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.5812 USD/h 3.145 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.5843 USD/h 3.162 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.5943 USD/h 3.216 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.6259 USD/h 3.387 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.6427 USD/h 3.478 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.653 USD/h 3.5333 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.7726 USD/h 4.181 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
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A memory-optimized virtual server featuring an exceptional memory-to-core ratio designed for high-capacity database and caching workloads.

      Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

      The Microsoft Azure E32-8s_v4 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine from the ESv4 family, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. It is equipped with an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz, offering 8 dedicated vCPUs and an exceptionally large memory capacity of 256.0 GB. This configuration yields 32.0 GB of RAM per core. The instance lacks local storage and GPUs but supports Premium Storage. Benchmark results show average performance across most tests, including 7.06 million Redis SET operations per second, a Geekbench multi-core score of 4779.0, and a PassMark memory score of 2635.49. However, it exhibits weaker performance in multi-threaded decompression and medium LLM inference. This server is highly suited for memory-intensive workloads such as in-memory databases, caching layers, and enterprise applications 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) 707,805 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.37 50.00% 50.00% -39.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,272,362 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.36 20.00% 20.00% -18.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,635 2,415 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 47,033 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.43 10.00% 10.00% -8.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,058 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,247

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,779

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 8,655
      Compression
      		 111,192
      Encryption
      		 3,434
      Extended Instructions
      		 7,654
      Floating Point Maths
      		 13,375
      Integer Maths
      		 24,884
      Physics
      		 1,001
      Prime Numbers
      		 57
      Single Threaded
      		 2,058
      String Sorting
      		 13,115

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,635
      Database Operations
      		 2,961
      Memory Latency
      		 48
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,606
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11,656
      Memory Write
      		 10,712

      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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