E32-8s_v5 by Microsoft Azure

E32-8s_v5 is a ESv5 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
7,763
(All-cores)
1,899
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E32-8s_v5
Name
E32-8s_v5
API Reference
Standard_E32-8s_v5
Description
ESv5 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
ESv5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-04T07:16:18.818330

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
0.4246 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
0.8022 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
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.4169 USD/h 2.256 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.5561 USD/h 2.256 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.421 USD/h 2.278 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.4284 USD/h 2.318 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.4184 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
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
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
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
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
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.4509 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.4507 USD/h 2.439 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.4587 USD/h 2.482 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.4688 USD/h 2.537 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.4768 USD/h 2.58 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.4844 USD/h 2.621 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.4938 USD/h 2.672 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.4938 USD/h 2.672 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.4943 USD/h 2.675 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
South India (IN) / southindia
0.5254 USD/h 2.843 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.5688 USD/h 3.078 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
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.5962 USD/h 3.226 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.6427 USD/h 3.478 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.6457 USD/h 3.494 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.6535 USD/h 3.536 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
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8370C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
5 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
48 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, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, fsrm, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
4.1
Scalability
51.25

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-dense virtual machine featuring an Intel Xeon processor and 256 GB of RAM for memory-bound enterprise workloads.

      Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

      The Microsoft Azure E32-8s_v5 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine from the ESv5 family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is configured with an Intel Xeon 8370C processor running at 2.8 GHz, offering 8 dedicated vCPUs across 4 physical cores, and a massive 256.0 GB of RAM. The instance lacks local storage and GPUs but is Premium Storage capable. Benchmark data indicates average performance across standard compute and memory tasks, with a stress-ng multi-core score of 7763.24 and a Redis SET throughput of 8.06 million operations per second. However, multi-threaded decompression and larger LLM inference tasks show weaker relative performance. Given its high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 32 GB per core, this server is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-bound applications. It is best suited for in-memory databases, caching layers, and enterprise workloads requiring substantial memory capacity without intensive parallel compute needs.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.63Score
      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) 1,109,312 ops/sec 1,933,252 ops/sec 0.58 50.00% 50.00% -24.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 5,676,362 ops/sec 11,794,699 ops/sec 0.47 20.00% 20.00% -14.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,622 2,412 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 64,655 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.59 10.00% 10.00% -5.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,432 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,674

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 6,200

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 11,439
      Compression
      		 126,122
      Encryption
      		 7,304
      Extended Instructions
      		 7,056
      Floating Point Maths
      		 17,200
      Integer Maths
      		 33,633
      Physics
      		 1,352
      Prime Numbers
      		 75
      Single Threaded
      		 2,432
      String Sorting
      		 17,658

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,622
      Database Operations
      		 4,144
      Memory Latency
      		 52
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,434
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 12,139
      Memory Write
      		 10,778

      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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