L24aos_v4 by Microsoft Azure
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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 | 2026-10-25T13:14:46.949629 |
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 | 50 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 192 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 192 GiB |
| ACCELERATORS | |
|---|---|
Accelerator Count | 0 |
Accelerator Memory Min | 0 MiB |
Accelerator Memory Total | 0 MiB |
Accelerators |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 17279 GB |
Storage Type | nvme ssd |
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 storage-optimized instance combining high-capacity local NVMe SSDs with strong single-core performance for demanding database and data processing workloads.
Microsoft Azure L24aos_v4 is a storage-optimized server instance powered by a 24-vCPU AMD EPYC 9V74 processor running at 3.7 GHz on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features 192.0 GB of RAM and a massive 17279 GB of local NVMe SSD storage, making it highly capable for storage-intensive workloads. Benchmark results show strong single-core CPU performance, placing in the top 25% for stress-ng and Geekbench single-core tests, alongside top-tier text generation speeds for small language models. Multi-core performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations remain in the average tier, while large-model LLM inference shows a performance bottleneck. This instance is highly suited for large databases, data warehousing, and text or image processing pipelines that benefit from dense local NVMe storage and balanced memory-to-vCPU ratios.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 37,616 |
Compression | 464,191 |
Encryption | 28,951 |
Extended Instructions | 32,861 |
Floating Point Maths | 63,772 |
Integer Maths | 113,994 |
Physics | 3,758 |
Prime Numbers | 236 |
Single Threaded | 2,902 |
String Sorting | 67,829 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 2,687 |
Database Operations | 11,117 |
Memory Latency | 79 |
Memory Read Cached | 27,884 |
Memory Read Uncached | 26,378 |
Memory Write | 25,690 |
Stress-ng Stressors
| CPU integer | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
atomic | 359.85 | 210.59 | 0.59× |
bitops | 160,415 | 2,311,568 | 14.41× |
branch | 212,858 | 4,449,283 | 20.90× |
funccall | 618.67 | 10,434 | 16.87× |
funcret | 20,984 | 374,310 | 17.84× |
hash | 163,384 | 2,936,867 | 17.98× |
intmath | 66,859 | 1,070,643 | 16.01× |
nop | 628,358 | 7,609,487 | 12.11× |
prime | 482,739 | 7,606,299 | 15.76× |
rotate | 88,360 | 1,059,898 | 12.00× |
str | 1,085,237 | 16,826,696 | 15.51× |
wcs | 693,836 | 9,591,901 | 13.82× |
| Cryptography | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
crypt | 3,748 | 48,045 | 12.82× |
| Compression | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
jpeg | 908.16 | 14,877 | 16.38× |
zlib | 65.83 | 1,349 | 20.49× |
| Hypervisor | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
clock | 21,676 | 214,240 | 9.88× |
clone | 1,127 | 11,884 | 10.55× |
context | 3,039 | 64,545 | 21.24× |
cpu-sched | 65.88 | 1,503 | 22.82× |
eventfd | 35,673 | 1,716,025 | 48.10× |
fault | 10,848 | 130,586 | 12.04× |
fork | 4,291 | 41,952 | 9.78× |
getrandom | 52,214 | 827,382 | 15.85× |
hrtimers | 156,786 | 2,588,937 | 16.51× |
mprotect | 795,364 | 5,091,279 | 6.40× |
mtx | 41,742,041 | 1,130,488,972 | 27.08× |
munmap | 3,193 | 36,585 | 11.46× |
null | 351,582 | 7,371,817 | 20.97× |
pipe | 1,289,958 | 12,496,225 | 9.69× |
priv-instr | 451,309 | 8,545,415 | 18.93× |
resched | 5,050,251 | 1,294,493 | 0.26× |
switch | 86,712 | 4,587,283 | 52.90× |
timermix | 198,378 | 3,562,810 | 17.96× |
tlb-shootdown | 11,860 | 83,919 | 7.08× |
tsc | 785,793 | 18,382,910 | 23.39× |
usersyscall | 334,798 | 6,475,091 | 19.34× |
vdso | 94,527,480 | 1,815,691,187 | 19.21× |
vfork | 23,312 | 209,481 | 8.99× |
x86syscall | 4,168,332 | 87,310,057 | 20.95× |
yield | 18,482,789 | 16,468,823 | 0.89× |
zero | 2,778,008 | 57,597,778 | 20.73× |
| CPU float/SIMD | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
eigen | 16,557 | 209,393 | 12.65× |
expmath | 2,928 | 54,686 | 18.68× |
fma | 920,468 | 18,140,552 | 19.71× |
fp | 251.98 | 4,659 | 18.49× |
fractal | 7.4 | 151.06 | 20.41× |
hyperbolic | 3,822 | 68,139 | 17.83× |
logmath | 4,562 | 78,204 | 17.14× |
matrix | 4,937 | 69,278 | 14.03× |
matrix-3d | 148.26 | 3,398 | 22.92× |
monte-carlo | 182.37 | 3,610 | 19.79× |
mpfr | 1,692 | 25,716 | 15.20× |
powmath | 1,344 | 26,043 | 19.37× |
trig | 1,874 | 34,316 | 18.31× |
veccmp | 19,080 | 296,658 | 15.55× |
vecfp | 1,815 | 32,613 | 17.96× |
vecmath | 4,023 | 78,230 | 19.44× |
vecshuf | 638.63 | 9,452 | 14.80× |
vecwide | 28,621 | 456,951 | 15.97× |
| Algorithms | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
bitonicsort | 10.4 | 143.4 | 13.79× |
bsearch | 306.03 | 5,074 | 16.58× |
bubblesort | 0.8 | 14.8 | 18.50× |
fibsearch | 380.28 | 5,598 | 14.72× |
heapsort | 10.8 | 176.99 | 16.39× |
hsearch | 11,484 | 150,522 | 13.11× |
insertionsort | 13 | 158.4 | 12.18× |
malloc | 3,758,870 | 55,275,212 | 14.71× |
mcontend | 117.46 | 3,794 | 32.30× |
mergesort | 34.4 | 602.78 | 17.52× |
qsort | 22 | 369.63 | 16.80× |
skiplist | 7,098 | 136,840 | 19.28× |
tree | 2.2 | 23.2 | 10.55× |
| Memory | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
cache | 880,685 | 1,403,579 | 1.59× |
cachehammer | 267,200 | 5,350,552 | 20.02× |
cacheline | 35.78 | 1,234 | 34.49× |
l1cache | 259.21 | 3,493 | 13.47× |
memcpy | 448.52 | 5,507 | 12.28× |
memrate | 3.55 | 9.58 | 2.70× |
memthrash | 190.79 | 934.98 | 4.90× |
ptr-chase | 57,770,548 | 193,204,521 | 3.34× |
spinmem | 318.77 | 1,451 | 4.55× |
stream | 128.04 | 10,074 | 78.68× |
vm | 200,090 | 294,794 | 1.47× |
Stress-ng Raw Scores
Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance
LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing
LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation
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