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F8als_v6 by Microsoft Azure

F8als_v6 is a Falsv6 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0578 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
24620
(All-cores)
3081
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F8als_v6
Name
F8als_v6
API Reference
Standard_F8als_v6
Description
Falsv6 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 8 vCPUs
Family
Falsv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-02T14:01:29.526244

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0578 USD/h 0.313 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.313 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.313 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0894 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0894 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0894 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0895 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.102 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.0939 USD/h 0.508 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0958 USD/h 0.518 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0983 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0998 USD/h 0.54 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0998 USD/h 0.54 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1174 USD/h 0.54 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1008 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1011 USD/h 0.547 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1011 USD/h 0.547 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1027 USD/h 0.556 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0973 USD/h 0.562 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.105 USD/h 0.568 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.105 USD/h 0.568 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.105 USD/h 0.568 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.105 USD/h 0.568 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.107 USD/h 0.579 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1225 USD/h 0.579 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.1079 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.1079 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1079 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.1081 USD/h 0.585 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1081 USD/h 0.585 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1081 USD/h 0.585 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1249 USD/h 0.585 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1101 USD/h 0.596 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1101 USD/h 0.596 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1101 USD/h 0.596 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0607 USD/h 0.607 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1122 USD/h 0.607 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1122 USD/h 0.607 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1122 USD/h 0.607 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1122 USD/h 0.607 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1142 USD/h 0.618 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1164 USD/h 0.63 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1164 USD/h 0.63 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1164 USD/h 0.63 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1194 USD/h 0.646 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1238 USD/h 0.67 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.1253 USD/h 0.678 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1258 USD/h 0.681 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1279 USD/h 0.692 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1279 USD/h 0.692 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1279 USD/h 0.692 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1362 USD/h 0.737 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1403 USD/h 0.759 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1432 USD/h 0.775 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1434 USD/h 0.776 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1549 USD/h 0.838 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1663 USD/h 0.9 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1663 USD/h 0.9 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1859 USD/h 1.006 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
3.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
9V74
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, svm, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx512_bf16, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, arat, npt, nrip_save, tsc_scale, vmcb_clean, flushbyasid, decodeassists, pausefilter, pfthreshold, v_vmsave_vmload, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
8
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    An 8-core compute-focused instance delivering strong single-core performance and dedicated AMD EPYC processing for low-memory, CPU-intensive workloads.

    Compute Optimized

    Microsoft Azure F8als_v6 is an x86_64 compute-focused server instance powered by an 8-core AMD EPYC 9V74 processor running at 3.7 GHz. It features 8 dedicated vCPUs and 16.0 GB of system memory, resulting in a low-memory ratio of 2.0 GB per core. The instance has no local storage but is Premium Storage capable, and it does not include a GPU. Performance benchmarks show strong single-core capabilities, with single-core stress-ng and Geekbench scores in the top 25%, and text processing in the top 10%. However, uncached large-block read memory bandwidth is a performance bottleneck, scoring in the bottom 25%. This configuration is qualitatively cost-efficient for compute-heavy, low-memory workloads such as text processing, software compilation, and light web serving, while being less suitable for memory-intensive applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.71Score
    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) 1,153,075 ops/sec 1,898,271 ops/sec 0.607 50.00% 50.00% -22.10%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,105,241 ops/sec 11,497,234 ops/sec 0.879 20.00% 20.00% -2.55%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,239 2,412 0.928 10.00% 10.00% -0.74%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 47,603 MB/sec 107,319 MB/sec 0.444 10.00% 10.00% -7.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,905 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.23 10.00% 10.00% +2.09%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,106

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 10,749

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 20116
    Compression
    		 210664
    Encryption
    		 10491
    Extended Instructions
    		 19710
    Floating Point Maths
    		 42683
    Integer Maths
    		 48373
    Physics
    		 2110
    Prime Numbers
    		 157
    Single Threaded
    		 2905
    String Sorting
    		 30532

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2239
    Database Operations
    		 7418
    Memory Latency
    		 78
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27900
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 27554
    Memory Write
    		 26853

    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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