L8s_v2 by Microsoft Azure

L8s_v2 is a LSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 2 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1153 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
2 TB Storage
Spare SCore
2,347
(All-cores)
698
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_L8s_v2
Name
L8s_v2
API Reference
Standard_L8s_v2
Description
LSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
LSv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
35
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-31T18:47:24.819487

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1445 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1205 USD/h 0.652 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1271 USD/h 0.688 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1271 USD/h 0.688 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1308 USD/h 0.708 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1338 USD/h 0.724 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
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1375 USD/h 0.744 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1375 USD/h 0.744 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1382 USD/h 0.748 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1382 USD/h 0.748 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1384 USD/h 0.749 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1434 USD/h 0.777 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
3.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7551
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
8 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, rep_good, nopl, cpuid, extd_apicid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, ssbd, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaveerptr, arat
Ecpus
3.4
Scalability
42.5

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
    2002 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 82 GB ssd (temp disk)
    • 1920 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An x86_64 virtual machine featuring dense local storage and moderate memory capacity for storage-focused and database workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure L8s_v2 is an LSv2-family virtual machine configured with an AMD EPYC 7551 processor, offering 8 vCPUs, 4 physical cores, and 64.0 GB of RAM. The server features 2002 GB of local storage and is Premium Storage capable, operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Benchmark results show that the instance delivers modest compute capabilities, with stress-ng CPU performance and large-block memory bandwidth falling into the bottom 10% of tested servers. However, Passmark CPU and memory scores reach the middle 50%, indicating average performance for standard operations. Given its high storage-to-vCPU ratio and moderate memory capacity, the L8s_v2 is suited for storage-centric applications, database hosting, and workloads requiring substantial local disk space rather than intensive raw processing power.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.29Score
    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) 418,163 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.22 50.00% 50.00% -53.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,781,493 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.23 20.00% 20.00% -25.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,185 2,416 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 22,123 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.2 10.00% 10.00% -15.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,741 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 986

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,115

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 6,938
    Compression
    		 87,541
    Encryption
    		 6,389
    Extended Instructions
    		 3,189
    Floating Point Maths
    		 10,810
    Integer Maths
    		 20,517
    Physics
    		 596
    Prime Numbers
    		 24
    Single Threaded
    		 1,741
    String Sorting
    		 12,695

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,185
    Database Operations
    		 2,124
    Memory Latency
    		 58
    Memory Read Cached
    		 20,297
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 13,334
    Memory Write
    		 8,882

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 269.04 260.12 0.97×
    bitops
    		 94,222 414,743 4.40×
    branch
    		 138,465 811,497 5.86×
    funccall
    		 402.93 1,828 4.54×
    funcret
    		 10,805 50,217 4.65×
    hash
    		 110,577 577,778 5.23×
    intmath
    		 17,462 63,271 3.62×
    nop
    		 213,419 719,401 3.37×
    prime
    		 268,886 1,293,580 4.81×
    rotate
    		 54,405 186,641 3.43×
    str
    		 524,317 1,817,030 3.47×
    wcs
    		 354,612 1,272,008 3.59×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,238 8,125 3.63×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 486.18 2,125 4.37×
    zlib
    		 62.54 293.41 4.69×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 17,675 81,319 4.60×
    clone
    		 881.66 3,523 4.00×
    context
    		 2,550 14,963 5.87×
    cpu-sched
    		 57.58 502.25 8.72×
    eventfd
    		 24,899 307,305 12.34×
    fault
    		 5,579 28,200 5.05×
    fork
    		 2,819 14,228 5.05×
    getrandom
    		 26,849 139,109 5.18×
    hrtimers
    		 202,736 440,527 2.17×
    mprotect
    		 804,625 1,134,312 1.41×
    mtx
    		 11,252,771 205,805,036 18.29×
    munmap
    		 1,790 10,314 5.76×
    null
    		 374,087 2,062,336 5.51×
    pipe
    		 915,256 1,873,016 2.05×
    priv-instr
    		 342,303 1,955,783 5.71×
    resched
    		 1,003,010 420,307 0.42×
    switch
    		 206,393 789,419 3.82×
    timermix
    		 125,206 754,137 6.02×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 10,795 11,361 1.05×
    tsc
    		 604,687 3,961,875 6.55×
    usersyscall
    		 223,692 1,305,289 5.84×
    vdso
    		 56,018,657 279,769,716 4.99×
    vfork
    		 15,213 77,852 5.12×
    x86syscall
    		 4,311,728 24,601,505 5.71×
    yield
    		 2,529,494 2,550,013 1.01×
    zero
    		 1,789,407 8,982,036 5.02×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 9,965 41,569 4.17×
    expmath
    		 2,447 12,521 5.12×
    fma
    		 554,915 2,685,164 4.84×
    fp
    		 183.86 840.72 4.57×
    fractal
    		 5.6 29.21 5.22×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,142 15,528 4.94×
    logmath
    		 3,441 16,814 4.89×
    matrix
    		 4,120 16,206 3.93×
    matrix-3d
    		 52.69 421.81 8.01×
    monte-carlo
    		 161.84 936.2 5.78×
    mpfr
    		 1,049 4,443 4.23×
    powmath
    		 1,133 5,996 5.29×
    trig
    		 1,264 6,362 5.03×
    veccmp
    		 14,605 57,870 3.96×
    vecfp
    		 914.75 4,025 4.40×
    vecmath
    		 2,880 15,497 5.38×
    vecshuf
    		 407.05 1,561 3.83×
    vecwide
    		 17,348 60,902 3.51×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 6.4 25.6 4.00×
    bsearch
    		 216.59 967.18 4.47×
    bubblesort
    		 0.6 3.2 5.33×
    fibsearch
    		 248.55 1,072 4.31×
    heapsort
    		 7.2 34.4 4.78×
    hsearch
    		 4,333 18,950 4.37×
    insertionsort
    		 5.6 18.8 3.36×
    malloc
    		 1,760,803 10,025,857 5.69×
    mcontend
    		 198.01 1,148 5.80×
    mergesort
    		 22.2 115.59 5.21×
    qsort
    		 13.4 70 5.22×
    skiplist
    		 4,914 26,275 5.35×
    tree
    		 1.4 3 2.14×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 477,498 1,118,800 2.34×
    cachehammer
    		 310,101 2,641,693 8.52×
    cacheline
    		 33.24 293.05 8.82×
    l1cache
    		 295.77 1,005 3.40×
    memcpy
    		 306.32 1,099 3.59×
    memrate
    		 1.76 3.07 1.74×
    memthrash
    		 66.83 195.32 2.92×
    ptr-chase
    		 15,261,731 67,402,962 4.42×
    spinmem
    		 257.79 302.11 1.17×
    stream
    		 247.7 2,761 11.15×
    vm
    		 68,159 264,840 3.89×

    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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