L32s_v4 by Microsoft Azure

L32s_v4 is a Lsv4 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 7.68 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.516 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
7.68 TB Storage
Spare SCore
32,000
(All-cores)
1,953
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_L32s_v4
Name
L32s_v4
API Reference
Standard_L32s_v4
Description
Lsv4 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
Lsv4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-23T04:26:31.145957

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US (US) / eastus
0.5844 USD/h 2.784 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.516 USD/h 2.792 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.516 USD/h 2.792 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.516 USD/h 2.792 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.5381 USD/h 2.912 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.5594 USD/h 3.027 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.5659 USD/h 3.062 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.5677 USD/h 3.072 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.5677 USD/h 3.072 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.5677 USD/h 3.072 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.5804 USD/h 3.144 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.5834 USD/h 3.157 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.5854 USD/h 3.168 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.5973 USD/h 3.232 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.5973 USD/h 3.232 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.6019 USD/h 3.257 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.6019 USD/h 3.257 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.6047 USD/h 3.272 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.6047 USD/h 3.272 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.6134 USD/h 3.319 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.615 USD/h 3.328 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.615 USD/h 3.328 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.615 USD/h 3.328 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.615 USD/h 3.328 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.615 USD/h 3.328 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.615 USD/h 3.328 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.6165 USD/h 3.336 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.6172 USD/h 3.34 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.6174 USD/h 3.341 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.618 USD/h 3.344 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.618 USD/h 3.344 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.6194 USD/h 3.352 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.6239 USD/h 3.376 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.6239 USD/h 3.376 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.6246 USD/h 3.38 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.6488 USD/h 3.511 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.6705 USD/h 3.628 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.6766 USD/h 3.661 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.6771 USD/h 3.664 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.7204 USD/h 3.898 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.7276 USD/h 3.937 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.7377 USD/h 3.992 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.7974 USD/h 4.315 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.822 USD/h 4.448 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
768 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 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
16.4
Scalability
51.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    7679 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 7679 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A high-frequency virtual machine combining massive local NVMe SSD storage with dense memory for demanding database and analytical workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure L32s_v4 is an Lsv4-family virtual machine powered by a dedicated 32-vCPU Intel Xeon 8573C processor operating at 4.2 GHz. It features 256.0 GB of RAM and 7679 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this server delivers strong performance in memory bandwidth, image processing, and small-model LLM text generation. However, it exhibits weak performance in large-model LLM text generation. The high-density combination of high-speed local storage and memory makes it qualitatively cost-efficient for data-intensive workloads. It is best suited for databases, big data analytics, and memory-intensive applications requiring rapid local storage access.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.4Score
    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) 6,104,005 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 3.2 50.00% 50.00% +79.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 30,862,012 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 2.6 20.00% 20.00% +21.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,601 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 285,074 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 2.6 10.00% 10.00% +10.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,920 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,147

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 18,442

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 47,382
    Compression
    		 555,579
    Encryption
    		 33,806
    Extended Instructions
    		 46,153
    Floating Point Maths
    		 108,613
    Integer Maths
    		 153,291
    Physics
    		 7,275
    Prime Numbers
    		 315
    Single Threaded
    		 2,920
    String Sorting
    		 75,634

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,601
    Database Operations
    		 17,814
    Memory Latency
    		 58
    Memory Read Cached
    		 26,613
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,235
    Memory Write
    		 9,653

    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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