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L32s by Microsoft Azure

L32s is a LS family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 5.76 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.4613 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
5.76 TB Storage
Spare SCore
20577
(All-cores)
878
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_L32s
Name
L32s
API Reference
Standard_L32s
Description
LS family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
LS
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-02T14:01:29.531214

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.4613 USD/h 2.496 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.9435 USD/h 2.746 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.5086 USD/h 2.752 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.5086 USD/h 2.752 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.0535 USD/h 2.752 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.535 USD/h 2.895 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.5411 USD/h 2.928 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.55 USD/h 2.976 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.5529 USD/h 2.992 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.5532 USD/h 2.992 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
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
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
40 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
80 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
23.4
Scalability
73.12

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    5765 GB
    Storages
    • 5765 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A storage-dense virtual machine featuring massive local capacity and balanced multi-core performance for data-intensive enterprise workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure L32s is an LS family virtual machine powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor with 32 dedicated physical cores and a 2.0 GHz clock speed. Built on the x86_64 architecture and managed via Microsoft Hyper-V, it features 256.0 GB of RAM and a massive 5765 GB of Premium Storage capable local storage, with no GPU resources. Benchmark data reveals a performance tradeoff: single-core CPU and text processing speeds are weak, whereas multi-core CPU, memory bandwidth, and database operations perform at average levels. Qualitatively, the server provides high storage and memory density relative to its compute profile. It is highly suited for storage-intensive workloads, database hosting, and multi-threaded data processing tasks that leverage its large local disk capacity.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.25Score
    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) 2,733,351 ops/sec 1,898,271 ops/sec 1.44 50.00% 50.00% +20.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 19,596,548 ops/sec 11,497,234 ops/sec 1.7 20.00% 20.00% +11.20%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,212 2,412 0.917 10.00% 10.00% -0.86%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 73,971 MB/sec 107,319 MB/sec 0.689 10.00% 10.00% -3.66%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,957 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.828 10.00% 10.00% -1.87%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,066

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,929

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 26435
    Compression
    		 453332
    Encryption
    		 8274
    Extended Instructions
    		 29070
    Floating Point Maths
    		 67349
    Integer Maths
    		 90961
    Physics
    		 2073
    Prime Numbers
    		 242
    Single Threaded
    		 1957
    String Sorting
    		 60948

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2212
    Database Operations
    		 16003
    Memory Latency
    		 64
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21176
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8952
    Memory Write
    		 8120

    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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