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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
45150
(All-cores)
1414
(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
active
Observed At
2026-08-03T07:22:45.354990

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
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
East US (US) / eastus
0.6653 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
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    717 GB
    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

    2.07Score
    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 1,910,660 ops/sec 2.62 50.00% 50.00% +61.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 29,306,062 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 2.52 20.00% 20.00% +20.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,356 2,416 0.975 10.00% 10.00% -0.25%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 232,373 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 2.15 10.00% 10.00% +7.96%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,104 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.89 10.00% 10.00% -1.16%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,166

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 12,559

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 39539
    Compression
    		 662267
    Encryption
    		 16805
    Extended Instructions
    		 50101
    Floating Point Maths
    		 111470
    Integer Maths
    		 130743
    Physics
    		 4231
    Prime Numbers
    		 302
    Single Threaded
    		 2104
    String Sorting
    		 78380

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2356
    Database Operations
    		 21554
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24246
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7382
    Memory Write
    		 8101

    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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