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
21,624
(All-cores)
2,702
(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
2026-10-29T13:54:52.456651

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2306 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
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
0.2308 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2628 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.241 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 Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2543 USD/h 1.376 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
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
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
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.3025 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
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    4004 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    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

    An AMD-powered server featuring high-capacity local NVMe storage and balanced memory for database and storage-intensive workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory Optimized

    Microsoft Azure L16as_v3 is a storage-optimized server 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 a bundled 4004 GB NVMe SSD. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance delivers strong single-core CPU performance and average multi-core capabilities. However, it exhibits a performance tradeoff with weak uncached large-block memory read and write bandwidths. The server is well-suited for database operations, Redis deployments, and storage-heavy workloads requiring high-capacity local NVMe storage.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.72Score
    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 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.68 50.00% 50.00% -18.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,257,263 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.78 20.00% 20.00% -4.80%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,723 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 40,739 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.37 10.00% 10.00% -9.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,410 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,689

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,888

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 21,574
    Compression
    		 253,127
    Encryption
    		 17,140
    Extended Instructions
    		 14,917
    Floating Point Maths
    		 36,543
    Integer Maths
    		 66,486
    Physics
    		 1,990
    Prime Numbers
    		 100
    Single Threaded
    		 2,410
    String Sorting
    		 35,277

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,723
    Database Operations
    		 7,050
    Memory Latency
    		 63
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24,451
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 20,166
    Memory Write
    		 19,811

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 234.08 201.91 0.86×
    bitops
    		 138,666 1,300,504 9.38×
    branch
    		 164,267 2,404,658 14.64×
    funccall
    		 538.49 5,544 10.29×
    funcret
    		 16,572 176,842 10.67×
    hash
    		 132,401 1,621,999 12.25×
    intmath
    		 58,174 613,608 10.55×
    nop
    		 283,126 2,265,654 8.00×
    prime
    		 382,914 3,845,929 10.04×
    rotate
    		 77,193 615,195 7.97×
    str
    		 802,837 7,452,253 9.28×
    wcs
    		 560,118 5,162,943 9.22×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 3,230 25,689 7.95×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 704.4 7,690 10.92×
    zlib
    		 50.97 741.39 14.55×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 3,735 50,522 13.53×
    clone
    		 1,260 9,311 7.39×
    context
    		 3,442 46,366 13.47×
    cpu-sched
    		 64.53 1,032 15.99×
    eventfd
    		 29,572 930,071 31.45×
    fault
    		 7,261 78,053 10.75×
    fork
    		 3,995 31,981 8.01×
    getrandom
    		 45,843 466,751 10.18×
    hrtimers
    		 68,953 931,541 13.51×
    mprotect
    		 1,261,642 3,013,467 2.39×
    mtx
    		 23,961,187 712,638,382 29.74×
    munmap
    		 2,395 24,799 10.36×
    null
    		 432,116 5,672,603 13.13×
    pipe
    		 1,774,657 5,999,808 3.38×
    priv-instr
    		 387,921 4,948,599 12.76×
    resched
    		 3,520,109 662,802 0.19×
    switch
    		 52,110 2,421,314 46.47×
    timermix
    		 41,638 694,338 16.68×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 17,517 42,538 2.43×
    tsc
    		 668,396 10,222,493 15.29×
    usersyscall
    		 307,480 3,957,512 12.87×
    vdso
    		 78,207,503 1,018,702,881 13.03×
    vfork
    		 25,279 189,875 7.51×
    x86syscall
    		 5,438,840 70,221,697 12.91×
    yield
    		 8,617,529 8,215,023 0.95×
    zero
    		 2,863,548 34,451,037 12.03×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 13,586 113,068 8.32×
    expmath
    		 2,365 30,792 13.02×
    fma
    		 773,455 9,823,734 12.70×
    fp
    		 227.29 2,631 11.57×
    fractal
    		 6.8 88.81 13.06×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,241 39,665 12.24×
    logmath
    		 3,847 44,332 11.53×
    matrix
    		 2,704 32,121 11.88×
    matrix-3d
    		 86.94 1,093 12.58×
    monte-carlo
    		 203.98 2,576 12.63×
    mpfr
    		 1,387 13,524 9.75×
    powmath
    		 1,182 15,621 13.21×
    trig
    		 1,492 18,355 12.30×
    veccmp
    		 16,052 167,626 10.44×
    vecfp
    		 1,479 16,202 10.96×
    vecmath
    		 3,434 43,896 12.78×
    vecshuf
    		 533.9 4,949 9.27×
    vecwide
    		 23,674 237,888 10.05×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 8.4 72.4 8.62×
    bsearch
    		 261.25 2,775 10.62×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 9.6 12.00×
    fibsearch
    		 316.31 2,968 9.38×
    heapsort
    		 9.2 90.6 9.85×
    hsearch
    		 7,560 68,732 9.09×
    insertionsort
    		 11 89.6 8.15×
    malloc
    		 2,940,320 32,849,076 11.17×
    mcontend
    		 180.28 2,529 14.03×
    mergesort
    		 28 321.99 11.50×
    qsort
    		 18 207.39 11.52×
    skiplist
    		 5,999 74,069 12.35×
    tree
    		 1.8 9.6 5.33×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 564,797 1,228,622 2.18×
    cachehammer
    		 209,640 2,948,937 14.07×
    cacheline
    		 37.18 605.77 16.29×
    l1cache
    		 155.87 1,246 7.99×
    memcpy
    		 354.47 2,690 7.59×
    memrate
    		 2.16 5.63 2.61×
    memthrash
    		 146.02 397.98 2.73×
    ptr-chase
    		 65,058,989 115,528,851 1.78×
    spinmem
    		 272.79 775.05 2.84×
    stream
    		 60.45 2,034 33.65×
    vm
    		 121,548 292,882 2.41×

    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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