E8-2s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

E8-2s_v3 is a ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 131 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0638 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
131 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1,626
(All-cores)
1,239
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E8-2s_v3
Name
E8-2s_v3
API Reference
Standard_E8-2s_v3
API Reference Object
-
Description
ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
ESv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-17T07:26:07.738449

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0931 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0931 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0931 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0988 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2038 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0989 USD/h 0.536 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1013 USD/h 0.548 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.548 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.548 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1024 USD/h 0.554 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1035 USD/h 0.56 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1042 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1042 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1064 USD/h 0.576 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1064 USD/h 0.576 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1064 USD/h 0.576 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0964 USD/h 0.583 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1077 USD/h 0.583 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1077 USD/h 0.583 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1079 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1674 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1094 USD/h 0.592 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1094 USD/h 0.592 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1121 USD/h 0.605 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1124 USD/h 0.608 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1124 USD/h 0.608 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1124 USD/h 0.608 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1146 USD/h 0.62 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0998 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1172 USD/h 0.634 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0638 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1179 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1179 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1179 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1233 USD/h 0.667 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1234 USD/h 0.668 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1242 USD/h 0.672 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1301 USD/h 0.704 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1301 USD/h 0.704 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.1345 USD/h 0.728 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1453 USD/h 0.786 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.146 USD/h 0.79 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1497 USD/h 0.81 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1557 USD/h 0.84 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1691 USD/h 0.9148 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1691 USD/h 0.915 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1737 USD/h 0.94 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.2258 USD/h 1.222 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
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
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 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
1.3
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine delivering high memory density relative to compute resources for memory-heavy, low-CPU workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure E8-2s_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the ESv3 family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features a dedicated Intel Xeon 8272CL processor with 2 vCPUs, 1 physical core, and a 2.6 GHz clock speed. The hardware profile includes 64.0 GB of RAM, providing a high memory-to-core ratio of 32.0 GB per core, alongside a 131 GB local SSD. Benchmark data indicates modest processing capabilities, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1062.0 and a multi-core score of 1279.0, alongside a Redis SET throughput of 1.58 million operations per second. This resource profile offers high memory density relative to compute capacity, presenting a clear tradeoff for CPU-heavy tasks. The server is suited for memory-intensive workloads with low CPU demands, such as caching layers and small databases.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.14Score
    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) 149,657 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.079 50.00% 50.00% -72.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 998,826 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.083 20.00% 20.00% -39.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,734 2,417 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 23,777 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.22 10.00% 10.00% -14.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,705 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,062

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,279

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 1986
    Compression
    		 23948
    Encryption
    		 748
    Extended Instructions
    		 1658
    Floating Point Maths
    		 2928
    Integer Maths
    		 5447
    Physics
    		 267
    Prime Numbers
    		 13
    Single Threaded
    		 1705
    String Sorting
    		 2915

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1734
    Database Operations
    		 640
    Memory Latency
    		 57
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21425
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11469
    Memory Write
    		 9381

    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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