logo

L8s by Microsoft Azure

L8s is a LS family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 1.42 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1153 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
1.42 TB Storage
Spare SCore
4003
(All-cores)
504
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_L8s
Name
L8s
API Reference
Standard_L8s
Description
LS family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
LS
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-06-29T05:56:46.348487

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1268 USD/h 0.686 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2357 USD/h 0.686 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1271 USD/h 0.688 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1271 USD/h 0.688 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2634 USD/h 0.688 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1338 USD/h 0.724 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1353 USD/h 0.732 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1375 USD/h 0.744 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1382 USD/h 0.748 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1383 USD/h 0.748 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
40 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
40 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
7.9
Scalability
98.75

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    1421 GB
    Storages
    • 1421 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    An x86 server offering substantial local storage and balanced memory capacity for database operations and caching workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory Optimized

    Microsoft Azure L8s is an x86_64 instance from the LS family, featuring 8 dedicated physical cores powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor running at 2.0 GHz. It is equipped with 64.0 GB of system memory and 1421 GB of Premium Storage capable local storage, with no integrated GPUs. Benchmark evaluations indicate that while single-core and multi-core CPU performance is weak to poor, the instance maintains average performance in database operations, Redis SET operations, and static web serving throughput. Large-block uncached memory write bandwidth and cryptographic processing are notable bottlenecks. Given the high local storage capacity and moderate memory-to-vCPU ratio, the L8s is qualitatively cost-efficient for storage-centric and database workloads that do not require intense computational power.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 831

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 4,270

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		7818
    Compression
    		114027
    Encryption
    		2073
    Extended Instructions
    		7096
    Floating Point Maths
    		16651
    Integer Maths
    		22330
    Physics
    		955
    Prime Numbers
    		85
    Single Threaded
    		1561
    String Sorting
    		15762

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		1850
    Database Operations
    		4214
    Memory Latency
    		70
    Memory Read Cached
    		17524
    Memory Read Uncached
    		8299
    Memory Write
    		6950

    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

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    L4s 432 GiB0
    L16s 16128 GiB0
    L32s 32256 GiB0

    Similar Servers

    INSTANCEVENDORvCPUsMEMORYGPUs

    L8s FAQs