F16s by Microsoft Azure

F16s is a FS family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 66 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1042 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
66 GB Storage
Spare SCore
21,671
(All-cores)
1,357
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F16s
Name
F16s
API Reference
Standard_F16s
Description
FS family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
FS
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-11-01T13:17:13.737336

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1838 USD/h 0.79 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.79 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.79 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1852 USD/h 0.796 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1852 USD/h 0.796 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1852 USD/h 0.796 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1852 USD/h 0.796 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.3526 USD/h 0.796 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.188 USD/h 0.808 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1899 USD/h 0.816 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1899 USD/h 0.816 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3225 USD/h 0.83 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1936 USD/h 0.832 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1936 USD/h 0.832 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2034 USD/h 0.874 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1616 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2036 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2036 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2036 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.2043 USD/h 0.878 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2106 USD/h 0.905 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.2115 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2115 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2115 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.2115 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2115 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.2115 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2115 USD/h 0.909 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.2122 USD/h 0.912 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2122 USD/h 0.912 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.215 USD/h 0.924 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.2211 USD/h 0.95 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2222 USD/h 0.955 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2222 USD/h 0.955 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2222 USD/h 0.955 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2248 USD/h 0.966 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2318 USD/h 0.996 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2327 USD/h 0.9999 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2327 USD/h 1 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2346 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.2346 USD/h 1.008 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1042 USD/h 1.042 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.2425 USD/h 1.042 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2425 USD/h 1.042 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.2425 USD/h 1.042 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2443 USD/h 1.05 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2481 USD/h 1.066 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.2546 USD/h 1.094 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.259 USD/h 1.113 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2671 USD/h 1.148 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2688 USD/h 1.155 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2751 USD/h 1.182 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.276 USD/h 1.186 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.3025 USD/h 1.3 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3026 USD/h 1.3006 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.3111 USD/h 1.337 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.3474 USD/h 1.493 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
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, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, md_clear
Ecpus
16
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A compute-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon cores and a low memory-to-CPU ratio for parallelized workloads.

    Compute Optimized

    Microsoft Azure F16s is an x86_64 compute-optimized virtual machine from the FS family, powered by a 2.6 GHz Intel Xeon 8272CL processor. It features 16 dedicated physical cores, 32.0 GB of system memory (2.0 GB per core), and 66 GB of Premium Storage-capable local storage, with no GPU acceleration. Benchmark evaluations show weak single-core performance, but average multi-core CPU execution, memory bandwidth, and database operations. Notably, text generation with small language models performs in the top 25% tier. The 1:2 vCPU-to-RAM ratio provides a cost-efficient profile for compute-heavy, parallelized workloads by minimizing memory overhead. This instance is suited for multi-threaded batch processing, software compilation, static web serving, and moderate database workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1Score
    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) 2,088,852 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 1.1 50.00% 50.00% +4.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 13,088,675 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 1.1 20.00% 20.00% +1.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,514 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 109,978 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,793 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,097

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,344

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 20,115
    Compression
    		 291,648
    Encryption
    		 7,410
    Extended Instructions
    		 24,492
    Floating Point Maths
    		 47,909
    Integer Maths
    		 57,535
    Physics
    		 2,047
    Prime Numbers
    		 138
    Single Threaded
    		 1,793
    String Sorting
    		 34,766

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,514
    Database Operations
    		 10,307
    Memory Latency
    		 50
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,365
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,040
    Memory Write
    		 9,090

    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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