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E32s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

E32s_v3 is a ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 524 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2554 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
524 GB Storage
Spare SCore
26266
(All-cores)
1246
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E32s_v3
Name
E32s_v3
API Reference
Standard_E32s_v3
Description
ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
ESv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-04T16:25:56.961080

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.3631 USD/h 2.016 USD/h
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
East US (US) / eastus
0.3951 USD/h 2.016 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.0189 USD/h 2.128 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.3958 USD/h 2.144 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.4051 USD/h 2.192 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 2.192 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 2.192 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
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.4258 USD/h 2.304 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.4258 USD/h 2.304 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.4258 USD/h 2.304 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.4311 USD/h 2.333 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.4311 USD/h 2.333 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.3881 USD/h 2.334 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.4317 USD/h 2.336 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.837 USD/h 2.336 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
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.4482 USD/h 2.419 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.4494 USD/h 2.432 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.4587 USD/h 2.482 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.33 USD/h 2.496 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.4613 USD/h 2.496 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.4613 USD/h 2.496 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.4688 USD/h 2.537 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.2554 USD/h 2.554 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.472 USD/h 2.554 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.472 USD/h 2.554 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.472 USD/h 2.554 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.4731 USD/h 2.56 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.4731 USD/h 2.56 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.4731 USD/h 2.56 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.4731 USD/h 2.56 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.4731 USD/h 2.56 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
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.4967 USD/h 2.688 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.5204 USD/h 2.816 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.5204 USD/h 2.816 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.4796 USD/h 2.912 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
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.5847 USD/h 3.2448 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.6226 USD/h 3.36 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.6766 USD/h 3.661 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.6766 USD/h 3.6612 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.5919 USD/h 3.758 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.8911 USD/h 4.888 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 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
21.1
Scalability
131.88

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
    524 GB
    Storages
    • 524 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring a high RAM-to-vCPU ratio and local storage for database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    The Microsoft Azure E32s_v3 is an ESv3-family virtual machine designed for memory-intensive workloads. It features 32 vCPUs and 256.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz with 16 physical cores. The instance includes 524 GB of local storage and supports Premium Storage. While single-core benchmarks for this x86_64 server fall into the lower tier, its multi-core performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations consistently achieve average mid-tier ratings. This resource profile makes the E32s_v3 qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-heavy applications that benefit from a high RAM-to-vCPU ratio without needing leading-edge single-threaded speed. It is highly suitable for database hosting, caching layers like Redis, static web serving, and moderate multi-threaded enterprise workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.14Score
    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) 2,398,004 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 1.26 50.00% 50.00% +12.20%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 14,999,134 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 1.29 20.00% 20.00% +5.22%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,513 2,416 1.04 10.00% 10.00% +0.39%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 101,603 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.942 10.00% 10.00% -0.60%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,797 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.76 10.00% 10.00% -2.71%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,088

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,875

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 24733
    Compression
    		 386815
    Encryption
    		 12041
    Extended Instructions
    		 26485
    Floating Point Maths
    		 47106
    Integer Maths
    		 87762
    Physics
    		 2043
    Prime Numbers
    		 113
    Single Threaded
    		 1797
    String Sorting
    		 45139

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2513
    Database Operations
    		 9913
    Memory Latency
    		 57
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21732
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11584
    Memory Write
    		 9698

    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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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    E8-2s_v3 264 GiB0
    E4s_v3 432 GiB0
    E8-4s_v3 464 GiB0
    E16-4s_v3 4128 GiB0
    E8s_v3 864 GiB0

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