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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
2026-08-12T09:21:04.376514

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
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1009 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1009 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1009 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.101 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1151 USD/h 0.546 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.1061 USD/h 0.574 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.108 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
0.1327 USD/h 0.61 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1141 USD/h 0.618 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
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1161 USD/h 0.628 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.11 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
0.1383 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
0.1411 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 AMD-powered virtual machine offering balanced memory-to-core ratios and strong single-core performance for general-purpose workloads.

    General PurposeCompute Optimized

    The Microsoft Azure F8as_v6 is an x86_64 virtual machine from the Fasv6 family, powered by an AMD EPYC 9V74 processor. It features 8 dedicated vCPUs across 8 physical cores running at 3.7 GHz, paired with 32.0 GB of RAM. The instance lacks local storage and GPUs but supports Premium Storage. Performance benchmarks indicate strong single-core capabilities, with stress-ng and Geekbench single-core scores in the top 25%, alongside strong text processing and small-model text generation. Multi-core performance, database operations, and web serving throughput remain average, while uncached large-block memory read bandwidth is a relative bottleneck in the bottom 25%. This resource profile makes the F8as_v6 qualitatively cost-efficient for balanced general-purpose workloads, software compilation, and web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.716Score
    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) 1,148,641 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.601 50.00% 50.00% -22.50%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,136,062 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.873 20.00% 20.00% -2.68%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,558 2,416 1.06 10.00% 10.00% +0.58%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 48,700 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.451 10.00% 10.00% -7.65%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,907 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 1.23 10.00% 10.00% +2.09%

    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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    F16as_v6 1664 GiB0
    F32as_v6 32128 GiB0
    F48as_v6 48192 GiB0
    F64as_v6 64256 GiB0

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