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F8as_v6 by Microsoft Azure

F8as_v6 is a Fasv6 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0652 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
24619
(All-cores)
3081
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F8as_v6
Name
F8as_v6
API Reference
Standard_F8as_v6
Description
Fasv6 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 8 vCPUs
Family
Fasv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-06-28T08:32:47.483099

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0652 USD/h 0.353 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.353 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.353 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1009 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1049 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1132 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1183 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1346 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1101 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1111 USD/h 0.601 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1127 USD/h 0.61 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1127 USD/h 0.61 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1263 USD/h 0.61 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1142 USD/h 0.618 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1142 USD/h 0.618 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1175 USD/h 0.618 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1161 USD/h 0.628 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0908 USD/h 0.635 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1186 USD/h 0.642 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1186 USD/h 0.642 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1186 USD/h 0.642 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1186 USD/h 0.642 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1209 USD/h 0.654 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1258 USD/h 0.654 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.122 USD/h 0.66 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.122 USD/h 0.66 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.122 USD/h 0.66 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.1222 USD/h 0.661 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1222 USD/h 0.661 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1222 USD/h 0.661 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1344 USD/h 0.661 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1246 USD/h 0.674 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1246 USD/h 0.674 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1246 USD/h 0.674 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0686 USD/h 0.686 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1268 USD/h 0.686 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1268 USD/h 0.686 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1268 USD/h 0.686 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1268 USD/h 0.686 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.129 USD/h 0.698 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1314 USD/h 0.711 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1314 USD/h 0.711 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1314 USD/h 0.711 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1349 USD/h 0.73 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1397 USD/h 0.756 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.1414 USD/h 0.765 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1421 USD/h 0.769 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1443 USD/h 0.781 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1445 USD/h 0.782 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1445 USD/h 0.782 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1538 USD/h 0.832 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1586 USD/h 0.858 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1617 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1621 USD/h 0.877 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1748 USD/h 0.946 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1878 USD/h 1.016 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1878 USD/h 1.016 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.2101 USD/h 1.137 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
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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

    A dedicated eight-core AMD EPYC virtual machine delivering top-tier single-threaded performance and balanced memory for general-purpose workloads.

    General PurposeCompute Optimized

    Microsoft Azure F8as_v6 is an x86_64 virtual machine in the Fasv6 family, powered by an AMD EPYC 9V74 processor running at 3.7 GHz. It features 8 dedicated physical cores, 8 vCPUs, and 32.0 GB of RAM, providing a balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-memory ratio. This server does not include local storage or GPUs but supports Premium Storage. Performance benchmarks highlight top-tier single-core CPU capabilities, placing in the top 10% for stress-ng single-core tests, alongside strong text processing and small-model LLM text generation. However, a key tradeoff is its uncached large-block read memory bandwidth, which falls into the bottom 25%. Multi-core compute, database operations, and static web serving perform within average ranges. This instance is suited for general-purpose workloads, web serving, software compilation, and applications requiring high single-threaded performance without massive memory or local storage requirements.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,098

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 10,884

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		20125
    Compression
    		210725
    Encryption
    		10504
    Extended Instructions
    		19742
    Floating Point Maths
    		42680
    Integer Maths
    		48368
    Physics
    		2120
    Prime Numbers
    		156
    Single Threaded
    		2907
    String Sorting
    		30503

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2558
    Database Operations
    		7547
    Memory Latency
    		76
    Memory Read Cached
    		27897
    Memory Read Uncached
    		27586
    Memory Write
    		26833

    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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    F64as_v6 64256 GiB0

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