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
24,619
(All-cores)
3,081
(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
2026-11-09T09:54:13.233574

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
0.1127 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
0.1173 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
0.1209 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
0.1343 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
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1268 USD/h 0.686 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1395 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      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

      0.7Score
      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 1,922,940 ops/sec 0.58 50.00% 50.00% -24.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,136,062 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 0.83 20.00% 20.00% -3.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,558 2,406 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 48,700 MB/sec 108,657 MB/sec 0.45 10.00% 10.00% -7.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,907 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,098

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 10,884

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 20,125
      Compression
      		 210,725
      Encryption
      		 10,504
      Extended Instructions
      		 19,742
      Floating Point Maths
      		 42,680
      Integer Maths
      		 48,368
      Physics
      		 2,120
      Prime Numbers
      		 156
      Single Threaded
      		 2,907
      String Sorting
      		 30,503

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,558
      Database Operations
      		 7,547
      Memory Latency
      		 76
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27,897
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 27,586
      Memory Write
      		 26,833

      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
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      F64as_v6 64256 GiB0

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