L48s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

L48s_v3 is a LSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 48 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 48 vCPUs, 384 GiB of memory and 12 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.5016 USD per hour.
48 vCPU
384 GiB Memory
12 TB Storage
Spare SCore
46,634
(All-cores)
1,899
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_L48s_v3
Name
L48s_v3
API Reference
Standard_L48s_v3
Description
LSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 48 vCPUs
Family
LSv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
69
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-09T10:25:55.185477

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US (US) / eastus
0.879 USD/h 4.176 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.7739 USD/h 4.188 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.7765 USD/h 4.188 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.8623 USD/h 4.188 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
2.365 USD/h 4.188 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.8072 USD/h 4.368 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.8342 USD/h 4.514 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.8342 USD/h 4.514 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.9069 USD/h 4.594 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.8516 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.8516 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.9409 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
2.2008 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.8716 USD/h 4.719 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.9472 USD/h 4.736 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.8782 USD/h 4.752 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 4.752 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 4.752 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.89 USD/h 4.816 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.893 USD/h 4.832 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.8959 USD/h 4.848 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.8959 USD/h 4.848 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.907 USD/h 4.908 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.907 USD/h 4.908 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.907 USD/h 4.908 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.9201 USD/h 4.979 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.9225 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.9225 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.9225 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.9225 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.9225 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.9225 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.9225 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.926 USD/h 5.011 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.5016 USD/h 5.016 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.927 USD/h 5.016 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.927 USD/h 5.016 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.927 USD/h 5.016 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.9288 USD/h 5.026 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.9338 USD/h 5.064 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.9358 USD/h 5.064 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.9366 USD/h 5.068 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.9739 USD/h 5.267 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.9907 USD/h 5.361 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
1.0061 USD/h 5.444 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
1.0157 USD/h 5.496 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
1.0201 USD/h 5.52 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
1.0803 USD/h 5.846 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
1.0912 USD/h 5.905 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
1.1068 USD/h 5.989 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.1068 USD/h 5.989 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
1.1646 USD/h 6.302 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
1.1994 USD/h 6.49 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
1.2165 USD/h 6.583 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.233 USD/h 6.672 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
1.3204 USD/h 7.145 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
1.4389 USD/h 7.786 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
1.4389 USD/h 7.786 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
1.603 USD/h 8.674 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
48
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
24
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8370C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
768 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
30 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
48 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, 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, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, fsrm, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
24.6
Scalability
102.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
384 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
384 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    12012 GB
    Storages
    • 492 GB ssd (temp disk)
    • 11520 GB nvme ssd
    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-balanced server featuring dedicated Intel processors and extensive local NVMe capacity for data-intensive workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory Optimized

    Microsoft Azure L48s_v3 is an LSv3-series instance featuring 48 dedicated vCPUs and 384.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8370C processor at 2.8 GHz. It is equipped with 12,012 GB of Premium Storage capable local storage and operates on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Benchmark results place its general compute and memory bandwidth in the average tier, though it exhibits strong performance in CPU encryption, memory tests, ray tracing, and image processing. The instance delivers 45.6 million operations per second in Redis SET tests and shows strong text generation speeds for small LLM models. Lacking GPU acceleration, this server is designed for storage-intensive workloads, large databases, and data-processing tasks that benefit from high local storage capacity and a balanced memory-to-core ratio.

    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) 6,531,460 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 3.41 50.00% 50.00% +84.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 31,235,155 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 2.67 20.00% 20.00% +21.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,908 2,418 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.84%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 172,221 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 1.59 10.00% 10.00% +4.75%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,422 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,707

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 15,837

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 48928
    Compression
    		 733525
    Encryption
    		 43901
    Extended Instructions
    		 41510
    Floating Point Maths
    		 103357
    Integer Maths
    		 202180
    Physics
    		 3924
    Prime Numbers
    		 236
    Single Threaded
    		 2422
    String Sorting
    		 101111

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2908
    Database Operations
    		 21582
    Memory Latency
    		 51
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24330
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 13101
    Memory Write
    		 11389

    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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