HC44-32rs by Microsoft Azure

HC44-32rs is a HCS family [RDMA capable] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 44 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 32 vCPUs, 352 GiB of memory and 717 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.5854 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
352 GiB Memory
717 GB Storage
Spare SCore
45,150
(All-cores)
1,414
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_HC44-32rs
Name
HC44-32rs
API Reference
Standard_HC44-32rs
Description
HCS family [RDMA capable] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 44 vCPUs
Family
HCS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
28
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-11-01T13:17:13.747575

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US (US) / eastus
0.5854 USD/h 3.168 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.5854 USD/h 3.168 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.5854 USD/h 3.168 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.742 USD/h 3.484 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.7026 USD/h 3.802 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.7026 USD/h 3.802 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.7318 USD/h 3.96 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.761 USD/h 4.118 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.761 USD/h 4.118 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.7904 USD/h 4.277 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.8196 USD/h 4.435 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.849 USD/h 4.594 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.849 USD/h 4.594 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.1709 USD/h 6.336 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
CPU Speed
2.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8168
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
33 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
66 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, arch_perfmon, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pdcm, 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, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
31.9
Scalability
99.69

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A dedicated-core, memory-optimized server featuring high memory bandwidth and RDMA capabilities for demanding database and multi-threaded processing workloads.

    Memory OptimizedCompute OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure HC44-32rs is an HCS family server instance configured with 32 dedicated physical cores and 32 vCPUs on an Intel Xeon 8168 processor running at 2.7 GHz. It features 352.0 GB of RAM, yielding 11.0 GB per core, alongside 717 GB of local storage with Premium Storage and RDMA capabilities. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, its x86_64 architecture supports AVX-512 instructions. Benchmarks indicate strong multi-threaded bzip3 decompression and large-block memory read bandwidth, though single-threaded gzip compression and LLM text generation speeds are weak to poor. This hardware profile is suited for memory-intensive workloads, database operations, and multi-threaded data processing tasks requiring dedicated CPU resources.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2Score
    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) 5,002,774 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 2.6 50.00% 50.00% +61.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 29,306,062 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 2.4 20.00% 20.00% +19.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,356 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 232,373 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 2.1 10.00% 10.00% +7.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,104 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,166

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 12,559

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 39,539
    Compression
    		 662,267
    Encryption
    		 16,805
    Extended Instructions
    		 50,101
    Floating Point Maths
    		 111,470
    Integer Maths
    		 130,743
    Physics
    		 4,231
    Prime Numbers
    		 302
    Single Threaded
    		 2,104
    String Sorting
    		 78,380

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,356
    Database Operations
    		 21,554
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24,246
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7,382
    Memory Write
    		 8,101

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 150.67 152.55 1.01×
    bitops
    		 112,277 3,503,520 31.20×
    branch
    		 154,562 4,757,374 30.78×
    funccall
    		 546.28 17,274 31.62×
    funcret
    		 11,438 356,851 31.20×
    hash
    		 127,714 4,056,488 31.76×
    intmath
    		 22,598 693,174 30.67×
    nop
    		 191,678 6,095,354 31.80×
    prime
    		 316,563 10,020,311 31.65×
    rotate
    		 96,039 3,011,457 31.36×
    str
    		 735,484 23,092,266 31.40×
    wcs
    		 474,120 14,518,404 30.62×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,449 71,785 29.31×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 583.56 18,259 31.29×
    zlib
    		 40.51 1,536 37.92×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 19,139 174,889 9.14×
    clone
    		 902.58 17,078 18.92×
    context
    		 1,990 63,653 31.99×
    cpu-sched
    		 66.34 1,960 29.54×
    eventfd
    		 35,229 1,669,920 47.40×
    fault
    		 10,254 118,876 11.59×
    fork
    		 3,898 47,640 12.22×
    getrandom
    		 44,853 1,415,780 31.57×
    hrtimers
    		 1,677,550 5,317,866 3.17×
    mprotect
    		 696,623 7,390,907 10.61×
    mtx
    		 14,105,810 1,459,779,260 103.49×
    munmap
    		 2,717 42,788 15.75×
    null
    		 215,554 6,647,286 30.84×
    pipe
    		 934,341 9,912,009 10.61×
    priv-instr
    		 457,265 6,474,966 14.16×
    resched
    		 5,047,360 3,806,652 0.75×
    switch
    		 67,577 8,360,505 123.72×
    timermix
    		 215,937 6,861,035 31.77×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 5,589 77,984 13.95×
    tsc
    		 991,694 30,809,346 31.07×
    usersyscall
    		 311,609 6,365,569 20.43×
    vdso
    		 74,293,967 2,309,386,932 31.08×
    vfork
    		 23,474 189,271 8.06×
    x86syscall
    		 2,459,973 74,836,155 30.42×
    yield
    		 23,082,653 27,054,993 1.17×
    zero
    		 1,585,159 49,179,833 31.03×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 16,273 458,817 28.19×
    expmath
    		 2,709 83,611 30.86×
    fma
    		 523,016 16,434,778 31.42×
    fp
    		 160.8 5,132 31.92×
    fractal
    		 5.2 156.34 30.07×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,831 89,632 31.66×
    logmath
    		 4,559 144,200 31.63×
    matrix
    		 3,076 97,135 31.58×
    matrix-3d
    		 670.15 6,552 9.78×
    monte-carlo
    		 107.88 3,381 31.34×
    mpfr
    		 1,218 38,134 31.30×
    powmath
    		 1,598 50,680 31.72×
    trig
    		 1,726 54,241 31.42×
    veccmp
    		 15,714 497,808 31.68×
    vecfp
    		 1,958 62,252 31.80×
    vecmath
    		 2,149 67,132 31.23×
    vecshuf
    		 829.88 26,131 31.49×
    vecwide
    		 50,113 1,589,675 31.72×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 7.2 225.19 31.28×
    bsearch
    		 243.01 7,556 31.09×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 22.6 28.25×
    fibsearch
    		 243.27 7,537 30.98×
    heapsort
    		 8.4 263.39 31.36×
    hsearch
    		 5,092 159,649 31.35×
    insertionsort
    		 8.2 259.2 31.61×
    malloc
    		 2,149,411 35,937,515 16.72×
    mcontend
    		 63.08 7,359 116.66×
    mergesort
    		 23.6 739.99 31.36×
    qsort
    		 14.8 472.99 31.96×
    skiplist
    		 4,894 154,321 31.53×
    tree
    		 1.6 31.8 19.88×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 229,135 635,890 2.78×
    cachehammer
    		 337,710 8,210,815 24.31×
    cacheline
    		 10.96 1,091 99.58×
    l1cache
    		 227.95 7,131 31.28×
    memcpy
    		 349.08 10,695 30.64×
    memrate
    		 1.18 17.92 15.19×
    memthrash
    		 84.12 688.65 8.19×
    ptr-chase
    		 45,407,627 347,444,339 7.65×
    spinmem
    		 436.78 688.99 1.58×
    stream
    		 14.84 8,540 575.47×
    vm
    		 64,193 298,012 4.64×

    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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