L24aos_v4 by Microsoft Azure
(All-cores)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | azure |
Server ID | Standard_L24aos_v4 |
Name | L24aos_v4 |
API Reference | Standard_L24aos_v4 |
Description | Laosv4 family [AMD processor] [o] [Premium Storage capable] 24 vCPUs |
Family | Laosv4 |
Hw Virt | |
Average Time To Start | 252 |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-07-27T09:18:21.548212 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral | 0.4417 USD/h | 2.39 USD/h |
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest | 0.4435 USD/h | 2.4 USD/h |
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast | 0.5012 USD/h | 2.712 USD/h |
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral | 0.5012 USD/h | 2.712 USD/h |
East US 2 (US) / eastus2 | 0.5012 USD/h | 2.712 USD/h |
North Central US (US) / northcentralus | 0.5012 USD/h | 2.712 USD/h |
West US 2 (US) / westus2 | 0.5012 USD/h | 2.712 USD/h |
West US 3 (US) / westus3 | 0.5012 USD/h | 2.712 USD/h |
East US (US) / eastus | 0.5687 USD/h | 2.712 USD/h |
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth | 0.5015 USD/h | 2.714 USD/h |
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral | 0.5256 USD/h | 2.844 USD/h |
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral | 0.5513 USD/h | 2.983 USD/h |
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral | 0.5544 USD/h | 3 USD/h |
North Europe (IE) / northeurope | 0.5544 USD/h | 3 USD/h |
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral | 0.5544 USD/h | 3 USD/h |
West US (US) / westus | 0.5544 USD/h | 3 USD/h |
Central US (US) / centralus | 0.5658 USD/h | 3.065 USD/h |
Central India (IN) / centralindia | 0.5699 USD/h | 3.084 USD/h |
Italy North (IT) / italynorth | 0.581 USD/h | 3.144 USD/h |
France Central (FR) / francecentral | 0.5832 USD/h | 3.156 USD/h |
UK South (GB) / uksouth | 0.5832 USD/h | 3.156 USD/h |
Japan East (JP) / japaneast | 0.5899 USD/h | 3.192 USD/h |
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral | 0.5899 USD/h | 3.192 USD/h |
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral | 0.5988 USD/h | 3.24 USD/h |
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral | 0.5988 USD/h | 3.24 USD/h |
West Europe (NL) / westeurope | 0.5988 USD/h | 3.24 USD/h |
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast | 0.601 USD/h | 3.252 USD/h |
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia | 0.601 USD/h | 3.252 USD/h |
South Central US (US) / southcentralus | 0.6013 USD/h | 3.254 USD/h |
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth | 0.6098 USD/h | 3.3 USD/h |
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth | 0.6586 USD/h | 3.564 USD/h |
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth | 0.6586 USD/h | 3.564 USD/h |
East Asia (HK) / eastasia | 0.6608 USD/h | 3.576 USD/h |
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral | 0.7017 USD/h | 3.797 USD/h |
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast | 0.7167 USD/h | 3.878 USD/h |
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth | 0.7983 USD/h | 4.32 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 24 |
Hypervisor | Microsoft Hyper-V |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 12 |
CPU Speed | 3.7 GHz |
CPU Architecture | x86_64 |
CPU Manufacturer | AMD |
CPU Family | EPYC |
CPU Model | 9V74 |
CPU L1D Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1D Cache Total | 384 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 384 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 1 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 12 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache | 32 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache Total | 64 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, xtopology, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, 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, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx512_bf16, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, arat, npt, nrip_save, tsc_scale, vmcb_clean, flushbyasid, decodeassists, pausefilter, pfthreshold, v_vmsave_vmload, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, rdpid, fsrm |
Ecpus | 12 |
Scalability | 100 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 192 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 192 GiB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPU Memory Min | 0 MiB |
GPU Memory Total | 0 MiB |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 17279 GB |
Storages |
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| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
CPU and System Topology
Server Description
A high-capacity storage and memory-optimized instance featuring dedicated AMD EPYC processing and massive local NVMe storage for data-intensive workloads.
The Microsoft Azure L24aos_v4 is a storage and memory-optimized server instance powered by a dedicated AMD EPYC 9V74 processor. Operating at 3.7 GHz on the x86_64 architecture, it features 24 vCPUs, 12 physical cores, and 192.0 GB of RAM. A defining characteristic is its massive 17,279 GB of local storage, backed by Premium Storage capability under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Benchmark results show strong single-core and multi-core CPU performance, alongside top-tier text generation speeds for small language models. However, memory bandwidth and database operations perform in the average tier, and performance drops significantly for large-scale LLM inference. This instance is highly suited for large databases, data warehousing, and text or image processing applications requiring substantial local storage and memory capacity without GPU acceleration.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 37616 |
Compression | 464191 |
Encryption | 28951 |
Extended Instructions | 32861 |
Floating Point Maths | 63772 |
Integer Maths | 113994 |
Physics | 3758 |
Prime Numbers | 236 |
Single Threaded | 2902 |
String Sorting | 67829 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 2687 |
Database Operations | 11117 |
Memory Latency | 79 |
Memory Read Cached | 27884 |
Memory Read Uncached | 26378 |
Memory Write | 25690 |
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
| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| L2aos_v4 | 2 | 16 GiB | 0 |
| L4aos_v4 | 4 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| L8aos_v4 | 8 | 64 GiB | 0 |
| L12aos_v4 | 12 | 96 GiB | 0 |
| L16aos_v4 | 16 | 128 GiB | 0 |
| L32aos_v4 | 32 | 256 GiB | 0 |
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