L16s_v4 by Microsoft Azure

L16s_v4 is a Lsv4 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 3.84 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.258 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
3.84 TB Storage
Spare SCore
15,997
(All-cores)
1,953
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_L16s_v4
Name
L16s_v4
API Reference
Standard_L16s_v4
Description
Lsv4 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
Lsv4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-24T11:47:00.101990

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US (US) / eastus
0.2922 USD/h 1.392 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.258 USD/h 1.396 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.258 USD/h 1.396 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.258 USD/h 1.396 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2691 USD/h 1.456 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.2798 USD/h 1.514 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2829 USD/h 1.531 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2839 USD/h 1.536 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2839 USD/h 1.536 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2839 USD/h 1.536 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2902 USD/h 1.572 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.2918 USD/h 1.579 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2927 USD/h 1.584 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.2986 USD/h 1.616 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.2986 USD/h 1.616 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.301 USD/h 1.629 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.301 USD/h 1.629 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.3023 USD/h 1.636 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.3023 USD/h 1.636 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.3068 USD/h 1.66 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.3075 USD/h 1.664 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.3075 USD/h 1.664 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.3075 USD/h 1.664 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.3075 USD/h 1.664 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.3075 USD/h 1.664 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.3075 USD/h 1.664 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.3082 USD/h 1.668 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.3086 USD/h 1.67 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.3086 USD/h 1.67 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.309 USD/h 1.672 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.309 USD/h 1.672 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.3097 USD/h 1.676 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.3119 USD/h 1.688 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.3119 USD/h 1.688 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.3123 USD/h 1.69 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.3245 USD/h 1.756 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.3352 USD/h 1.814 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.3382 USD/h 1.83 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.3386 USD/h 1.832 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.3602 USD/h 1.949 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.3637 USD/h 1.968 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.3689 USD/h 1.996 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.3988 USD/h 2.158 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.411 USD/h 2.224 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
4.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8573C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
8.2
Scalability
51.25

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
    3840 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 3840 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A storage-optimized virtual machine combining dense local NVMe SSD capacity with high-frequency Intel Xeon processing and robust memory.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    The Microsoft Azure L16s_v4 is a storage-optimized virtual machine powered by an Intel Xeon 8573C processor with 16 dedicated vCPUs and 8 physical cores running at 4.2 GHz. It features 128.0 GB of RAM and a bundled 3840 GB local NVMe SSD, making it highly capable for storage-intensive workloads. The x86_64 architecture supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX, which contribute to strong single-core performance and top-tier text generation speeds of 369.86 tokens/sec on small LLM models. Benchmarks indicate reliable multi-core processing with a Passmark CPU score of 26806.09 and a Redis SET throughput of 22.91 million operations per second. This instance provides a cost-efficient balance of high-capacity local storage and dense memory, making it suitable for relational databases, caching layers, and data-intensive processing tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.5Score
    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) 3,073,001 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.6 50.00% 50.00% +26.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 15,533,975 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.3 20.00% 20.00% +5.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,511 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 249,231 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 2.3 10.00% 10.00% +8.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,926 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,162

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 13,245

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 26,806
    Compression
    		 282,351
    Encryption
    		 16,963
    Extended Instructions
    		 23,175
    Floating Point Maths
    		 54,306
    Integer Maths
    		 76,624
    Physics
    		 3,630
    Prime Numbers
    		 158
    Single Threaded
    		 2,926
    String Sorting
    		 38,279

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,511
    Database Operations
    		 9,517
    Memory Latency
    		 60
    Memory Read Cached
    		 26,757
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,400
    Memory Write
    		 9,533

    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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