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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
Average Time To Start
23
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-13T06:56:54.544359

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
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
10 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, 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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An x86 server combining 64 GB of memory and 1421 GB of local storage for database and caching workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure L8s is an LS family server featuring 8 dedicated vCPUs on an Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor running at 2.0 GHz, paired with 64.0 GB of RAM and 1421 GB of local storage. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this x86_64 instance provides 8.0 GB of memory per core. Benchmark data reveals a tradeoff: while single-core and multi-core CPU performance falls into the lower percentiles, the server achieves average results in database operations, Redis SET operations, and static web serving. Large-block memory write speeds are limited, but the high storage-to-vCPU ratio offers qualitative cost efficiency for storage-heavy workloads. This instance is suited for database hosting, caching, and web serving tasks that do not require intensive CPU processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.426Score
    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) 695,894 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.364 50.00% 50.00% -39.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,997,149 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.43 20.00% 20.00% -15.50%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,850 2,416 0.766 10.00% 10.00% -2.63%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 35,469 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.329 10.00% 10.00% -10.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,561 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.66 10.00% 10.00% -4.07%

    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

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