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M16-4ms by Microsoft Azure

M16-4ms is a MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 438 GiB of memory and 524 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.4456 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
438 GiB Memory
524 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2722
(All-cores)
1033
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M16-4ms
Name
M16-4ms
API Reference
Standard_M16-4ms
Description
MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
MS
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-28T21:42:47.263420

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US (US) / eastus
0.5679 USD/h 3.073 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.5679 USD/h 3.073 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.5679 USD/h 3.073 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.5679 USD/h 3.073 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.5679 USD/h 3.073 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.5858 USD/h 3.17 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 3.17 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 3.17 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.6247 USD/h 3.3803 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.6247 USD/h 3.3803 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.6254 USD/h 3.3842 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.6416 USD/h 3.472 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.6815 USD/h 3.6876 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.6815 USD/h 3.688 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.7155 USD/h 3.872 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.7155 USD/h 3.872 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.7155 USD/h 3.872 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.7383 USD/h 3.995 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.7411 USD/h 4.0103 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.7411 USD/h 4.0103 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.7495 USD/h 4.056 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.7495 USD/h 4.056 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.7503 USD/h 4.06 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.761 USD/h 4.118 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.795 USD/h 4.302 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.795 USD/h 4.302 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.795 USD/h 4.302 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.795 USD/h 4.302 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.795 USD/h 4.3022 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.795 USD/h 4.3022 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.796 USD/h 4.3071 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.812 USD/h 4.394 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.4456 USD/h 4.4559 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.8235 USD/h 4.4559 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.8235 USD/h 4.4559 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.8235 USD/h 4.4559 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.8235 USD/h 4.4559 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.8235 USD/h 4.4559 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.8235 USD/h 4.4559 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.8235 USD/h 4.456 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.8235 USD/h 4.456 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.8519 USD/h 4.61 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.8646 USD/h 4.6787 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.8746 USD/h 4.7324 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.8859 USD/h 4.794 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.9541 USD/h 5.163 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
1.0293 USD/h 5.5699 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
1.0336 USD/h 5.593 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
1.1073 USD/h 5.992 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
1.1369 USD/h 6.1522 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
1.2777 USD/h 6.914 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8280M
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
39 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
39 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, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, vnmi, md_clear
Ecpus
2.6
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A highly specialized virtual machine delivering massive memory capacity and local storage for memory-bound workloads with low compute requirements.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M16-4ms is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MS family, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. It features an Intel Xeon 8280M processor with 4 vCPUs, 2 physical cores, and a 2.7 GHz clock speed. The server is characterized by an exceptionally large memory capacity of 438.0 GB (109.38 GB per core) and 524 GB of local storage, with no GPU. Benchmark data reveals a clear tradeoff: while memory capacity is massive, compute and memory bandwidth performance are low, with Geekbench single-core and multi-core scores falling in the bottom 10%. This configuration represents a highly specialized resource density, offering qualitative cost efficiency specifically for memory-bound workloads with low CPU requirements. It is best suited for large in-memory databases, caching layers, and enterprise applications requiring massive RAM footprints without intensive parallel processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.194Score
    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) 250,968 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.132 50.00% 50.00% -63.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,706,685 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.148 20.00% 20.00% -31.80%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,467 2,411 0.608 10.00% 10.00% -4.85%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 24,338 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.227 10.00% 10.00% -13.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,480 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.626 10.00% 10.00% -4.58%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 884

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,961

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 3305
    Compression
    		 41189
    Encryption
    		 1257
    Extended Instructions
    		 2811
    Floating Point Maths
    		 4899
    Integer Maths
    		 9135
    Physics
    		 453
    Prime Numbers
    		 22
    Single Threaded
    		 1480
    String Sorting
    		 4909

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1467
    Database Operations
    		 1047
    Memory Latency
    		 74
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18122
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 5606
    Memory Write
    		 5878

    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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    M32-8ms 8875 GiB0
    M16ms 16438 GiB0
    M32-16ms 16875 GiB0

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