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L16as_v3 by Microsoft Azure

L16as_v3 is a LASv3 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 4 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1496 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
4 TB Storage
Spare SCore
21624
(All-cores)
2702
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_L16as_v3
Name
L16as_v3
API Reference
Standard_L16as_v3
Description
LASv3 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
LASv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
46
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-31T15:24:19.851177

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2306 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2306 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.24 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2628 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.3378 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2651 USD/h 1.304 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.2434 USD/h 1.317 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.2434 USD/h 1.317 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2537 USD/h 1.373 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2543 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2543 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2543 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2646 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2604 USD/h 1.41 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2617 USD/h 1.416 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.416 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.416 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2652 USD/h 1.435 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2676 USD/h 1.448 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2676 USD/h 1.448 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.2676 USD/h 1.448 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2705 USD/h 1.464 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.2705 USD/h 1.464 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2705 USD/h 1.464 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.275 USD/h 1.488 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.275 USD/h 1.488 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.275 USD/h 1.488 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.275 USD/h 1.488 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1496 USD/h 1.496 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.2765 USD/h 1.496 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2765 USD/h 1.496 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2765 USD/h 1.496 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2768 USD/h 1.498 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.279 USD/h 1.51 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2794 USD/h 1.512 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2794 USD/h 1.512 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.2951 USD/h 1.597 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.2997 USD/h 1.622 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.3023 USD/h 1.636 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.3031 USD/h 1.64 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.3045 USD/h 1.648 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.3228 USD/h 1.747 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.3252 USD/h 1.76 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.3299 USD/h 1.785 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.3478 USD/h 1.882 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.3574 USD/h 1.934 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.3633 USD/h 1.966 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3681 USD/h 1.992 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3931 USD/h 2.127 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.394 USD/h 2.132 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.4287 USD/h 2.32 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.4786 USD/h 2.59 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
3.525 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7763
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
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, arat, npt, nrip_save, tsc_scale, vmcb_clean, flushbyasid, decodeassists, pausefilter, pfthreshold, v_vmsave_vmload, umip, vaes, vpclmulqdq, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
8
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    4004 GB
    Storages
    • 164 GB ssd (temp disk)
    • 3840 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A storage-dense virtual server combining high-capacity local storage, dedicated AMD EPYC processing, and substantial memory for data-intensive database workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure L16as_v3 is an x86_64 virtual machine from the LASv3 family, powered by an AMD EPYC 7763 processor running at 3.525 GHz. It features 16 dedicated vCPUs, 128.0 GB of RAM, and 4004 GB of local storage with Premium Storage capabilities. Performance benchmarks show strong single-core CPU execution and efficient small-model LLM text generation. However, there is a clear tradeoff in uncached large-block memory read and write speeds, which perform in the lower tier. Multi-core processing, database operations, and web serving throughput maintain average performance. With its high local storage capacity and 8:1 RAM-to-vCPU ratio, this server is well-suited for database hosting, caching layers, and storage-heavy workloads requiring substantial memory resources.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.721Score
    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) 1,270,517 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.67 50.00% 50.00% -18.10%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,257,263 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.802 20.00% 20.00% -4.32%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,723 2,411 1.13 10.00% 10.00% +1.23%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 40,739 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.379 10.00% 10.00% -9.25%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,410 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,689

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,888

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 21574
    Compression
    		 253127
    Encryption
    		 17140
    Extended Instructions
    		 14917
    Floating Point Maths
    		 36543
    Integer Maths
    		 66486
    Physics
    		 1990
    Prime Numbers
    		 100
    Single Threaded
    		 2410
    String Sorting
    		 35277

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2723
    Database Operations
    		 7050
    Memory Latency
    		 63
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24451
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 20166
    Memory Write
    		 19811

    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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