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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
32000
(All-cores)
1953
(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
2026-07-24T11:23:24.058368

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
0.6672 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
0.7874 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
102.5

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
    7679 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    • 7679 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A high-capacity storage and memory-optimized server featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing and extensive local NVMe storage for demanding database workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure L32s_v4 is a storage-optimized server from the Lsv4 family, powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8573C processor. Operating at 4.2 GHz, this x86_64 system provides 32 vCPUs across 16 physical cores, backed by 256.0 GB of RAM and 7679 GB of local storage with Premium Storage capability. Benchmark data shows strong capabilities, including a Geekbench multi-core score of 18442.0, a large-block memory read bandwidth of 197.62 GB/sec, and top-tier image processing performance. The CPU supports AVX-512 and Intel AMX instructions, enabling efficient small-model LLM inference, though large-model text generation remains a bottleneck due to the absence of a GPU. This server is highly suited for high-throughput databases, data warehousing, and static web serving workloads requiring substantial local NVMe capacity and high memory density.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.48Score
    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 1,896,415 ops/sec 3.22 50.00% 50.00% +79.40%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 30,862,012 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 2.67 20.00% 20.00% +21.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,601 2,411 1.08 10.00% 10.00% +0.77%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 285,074 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 2.66 10.00% 10.00% +10.30%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,920 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.24 10.00% 10.00% +2.17%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,147

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 18,442

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 47382
    Compression
    		 555579
    Encryption
    		 33806
    Extended Instructions
    		 46153
    Floating Point Maths
    		 108613
    Integer Maths
    		 153291
    Physics
    		 7275
    Prime Numbers
    		 315
    Single Threaded
    		 2920
    String Sorting
    		 75634

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2601
    Database Operations
    		 17814
    Memory Latency
    		 58
    Memory Read Cached
    		 26613
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10235
    Memory Write
    		 9653

    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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