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 1.49 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1153 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
1.49 TB Storage
Spare SCore
4,003
(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
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-11-11T15:01:48.967911

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
0.1896 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    1490 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 1490 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.

    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

    0.43Score
    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 1,926,573 ops/sec 0.37 50.00% 50.00% -39.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,997,149 ops/sec 11,810,473 ops/sec 0.42 20.00% 20.00% -16.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,850 2,406 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 35,469 MB/sec 108,674 MB/sec 0.32 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,561 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 831

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 4,270

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 7,818
    Compression
    		 114,027
    Encryption
    		 2,073
    Extended Instructions
    		 7,096
    Floating Point Maths
    		 16,651
    Integer Maths
    		 22,330
    Physics
    		 955
    Prime Numbers
    		 85
    Single Threaded
    		 1,561
    String Sorting
    		 15,762

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,850
    Database Operations
    		 4,214
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 17,524
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8,299
    Memory Write
    		 6,950

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 203.5 198.05 0.97×
    bitops
    		 93,292 744,945 7.99×
    branch
    		 98,202 782,125 7.96×
    funccall
    		 454.15 3,620 7.97×
    funcret
    		 8,556 67,169 7.85×
    hash
    		 108,752 863,841 7.94×
    intmath
    		 43,643 347,237 7.96×
    nop
    		 134,157 1,066,553 7.95×
    prime
    		 287,600 2,288,856 7.96×
    rotate
    		 69,932 556,940 7.96×
    str
    		 640,782 4,941,472 7.71×
    wcs
    		 434,212 3,384,608 7.79×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,034 16,197 7.96×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 491.48 3,925 7.99×
    zlib
    		 29.25 280.12 9.58×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 17,801 116,974 6.57×
    clone
    		 1,231 5,931 4.82×
    context
    		 1,496 11,885 7.94×
    cpu-sched
    		 59.69 502.38 8.42×
    eventfd
    		 32,565 653,189 20.06×
    fault
    		 9,794 72,553 7.41×
    fork
    		 3,906 22,463 5.75×
    getrandom
    		 34,471 275,325 7.99×
    hrtimers
    		 215,572 870,510 4.04×
    mprotect
    		 1,042,629 1,580,072 1.52×
    mtx
    		 11,663,798 254,861,438 21.85×
    munmap
    		 2,872 18,502 6.44×
    null
    		 162,863 1,289,444 7.92×
    pipe
    		 815,908 3,791,703 4.65×
    priv-instr
    		 346,331 2,674,215 7.72×
    resched
    		 2,030,139 924,320 0.46×
    switch
    		 83,701 1,805,657 21.57×
    timermix
    		 160,101 1,257,534 7.85×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 9,657 20,703 2.14×
    tsc
    		 641,311 5,104,826 7.96×
    usersyscall
    		 243,905 1,893,809 7.76×
    vdso
    		 65,850,273 524,449,257 7.96×
    vfork
    		 23,517 153,117 6.51×
    x86syscall
    		 1,788,004 14,434,474 8.07×
    yield
    		 4,737,775 5,048,223 1.07×
    zero
    		 1,366,911 10,876,416 7.96×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 10,585 84,469 7.98×
    expmath
    		 2,069 16,505 7.98×
    fma
    		 485,299 3,863,554 7.96×
    fp
    		 132 1,075 8.15×
    fractal
    		 3.6 28 7.78×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,207 17,581 7.97×
    logmath
    		 3,469 27,349 7.88×
    matrix
    		 2,707 21,549 7.96×
    matrix-3d
    		 630.26 3,102 4.92×
    monte-carlo
    		 85.52 682.73 7.98×
    mpfr
    		 1,009 8,035 7.96×
    powmath
    		 1,207 9,618 7.97×
    trig
    		 1,415 11,253 7.95×
    veccmp
    		 14,885 118,305 7.95×
    vecfp
    		 1,093 8,697 7.96×
    vecmath
    		 2,352 18,708 7.96×
    vecshuf
    		 476.54 3,794 7.96×
    vecwide
    		 22,843 181,705 7.95×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 5.8 46.2 7.97×
    bsearch
    		 176.89 1,412 7.98×
    bubblesort
    		 0.6 4.8 8.00×
    fibsearch
    		 207.45 1,652 7.96×
    heapsort
    		 6.6 52.8 8.00×
    hsearch
    		 5,123 41,800 8.16×
    insertionsort
    		 7.4 59.2 8.00×
    malloc
    		 1,892,500 15,525,029 8.20×
    mcontend
    		 104.87 1,326 12.65×
    mergesort
    		 19.2 153 7.97×
    qsort
    		 14.8 117.4 7.93×
    skiplist
    		 3,891 30,994 7.97×
    tree
    		 1.2 8 6.67×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 286,156 471,672 1.65×
    cachehammer
    		 348,505 2,752,600 7.90×
    cacheline
    		 46.14 379.1 8.22×
    l1cache
    		 658.61 5,216 7.92×
    memcpy
    		 291.45 2,324 7.97×
    memrate
    		 1.56 9.35 5.99×
    memthrash
    		 144.99 355.31 2.45×
    ptr-chase
    		 24,256,755 101,289,267 4.18×
    spinmem
    		 316.99 628.11 1.98×
    stream
    		 38.37 1,783 46.46×
    vm
    		 58,593 292,089 4.99×

    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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