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L16s_v2 by Microsoft Azure

L16s_v2 is a LSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 4 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2306 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
4 TB Storage
Spare SCore
4686
(All-cores)
696
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_L16s_v2
Name
L16s_v2
API Reference
Standard_L16s_v2
Description
LSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
LSv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-06-30T20:37:19.090972

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
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
0.2306 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2889 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.241 USD/h 1.304 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 India (IN) / centralindia
0.2617 USD/h 1.416 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
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
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.275 USD/h 1.488 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.275 USD/h 1.488 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
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2871 USD/h 1.555 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
3.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7551
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
8 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, rep_good, nopl, cpuid, extd_apicid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, ssbd, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaveerptr, arat
Ecpus
6.7
Scalability
83.75

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

    Server Description

    A storage-dense virtual instance combining 128 GB of memory with 4004 GB of local capacity for database and caching workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure L16s_v2 is an x86_64 virtualized server from the LSv2 family, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. It features 16 dedicated vCPUs from an AMD EPYC 7551 processor clocked at 3.2 GHz, paired with 128.0 GB of RAM and a substantial 4004 GB of local storage. While the instance offers high storage capacity and average memory read bandwidth, its CPU performance is a notable tradeoff, scoring in the bottom 10% for single-core stress tests and the bottom 25% for multi-core processing. Benchmark results show average performance for database operations, Redis SET operations, and static web serving, but poor results for text processing and LLM inference. This configuration is best suited for storage-intensive applications, database hosting, and caching workloads where massive local storage is required, rather than compute-heavy or high-throughput write tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 955

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 4,869

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		13143
    Compression
    		173882
    Encryption
    		12714
    Extended Instructions
    		6322
    Floating Point Maths
    		21564
    Integer Maths
    		40338
    Physics
    		1209
    Prime Numbers
    		48
    Single Threaded
    		1843
    String Sorting
    		25001

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2382
    Database Operations
    		4298
    Memory Latency
    		58
    Memory Read Cached
    		21060
    Memory Read Uncached
    		12836
    Memory Write
    		9022

    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

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    L8s_v2 864 GiB0
    L32s_v2 32256 GiB0
    L48s_v2 48384 GiB0
    L64s_v2 64512 GiB0
    L80s_v2 80640 GiB0

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