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L16s by Microsoft Azure

L16s is a LS family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 2.87 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2306 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
2.87 TB Storage
Spare SCore
10343
(All-cores)
888
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_L16s
Name
L16s
API Reference
Standard_L16s
Description
LS family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
LS
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-27T09:18:21.548060

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2306 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.4718 USD/h 1.373 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2543 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2543 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.5267 USD/h 1.376 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
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.275 USD/h 1.488 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2765 USD/h 1.496 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2766 USD/h 1.496 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2698B v3
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
40 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
40 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, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, xsaveopt, md_clear
Ecpus
11.6
Scalability
72.5

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
    2874 GB
    Storages
    • 2874 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A storage-optimized virtual machine featuring high-capacity local storage and balanced memory density for database and multi-threaded workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory Optimized

    Microsoft Azure L16s is an x86_64 storage-optimized virtual machine featuring 16 dedicated vCPUs and 16 physical cores powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor running at 2.0 GHz. It is equipped with 128.0 GB of RAM, providing 8.0 GB per core, and includes 2874 GB of local storage with Premium Storage capabilities. While single-core CPU benchmarks and large-block memory write bandwidth fall into lower performance tiers, its multi-core performance, static web serving throughput, and Redis operations consistently achieve average benchmark ratings. This hardware profile offers a qualitative balance of high local storage capacity and memory density relative to its compute generation. The L16s is suited for database operations, multi-threaded decompression, and memory-intensive workloads that benefit from large local storage without requiring cutting-edge single-thread processing speeds.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.728Score
    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) 1,409,549 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.743 50.00% 50.00% -13.80%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 10,138,931 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.879 20.00% 20.00% -2.55%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,961 2,411 0.814 10.00% 10.00% -2.04%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 44,332 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.413 10.00% 10.00% -8.46%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,673 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.708 10.00% 10.00% -3.39%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,081

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,760

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 14291
    Compression
    		 228671
    Encryption
    		 4197
    Extended Instructions
    		 14543
    Floating Point Maths
    		 32622
    Integer Maths
    		 43555
    Physics
    		 1086
    Prime Numbers
    		 122
    Single Threaded
    		 1673
    String Sorting
    		 30537

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1961
    Database Operations
    		 7961
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18566
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8882
    Memory Write
    		 7283

    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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