M208ms_v2 by Microsoft Azure

M208ms_v2 is a MSv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 208 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 208 vCPUs, 5700 GiB of memory and 4.19 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 6.4699 USD per hour.
208 vCPU
5700 GiB Memory
4.19 TB Storage
Spare SCore
187,913
(All-cores)
1,371
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M208ms_v2
Name
M208ms_v2
API Reference
Standard_M208ms_v2
Description
MSv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 208 vCPUs
Family
MSv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
88.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-12T15:25:48.366203

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US (US) / eastus
8.2458 USD/h 44.62 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
8.2458 USD/h 44.62 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
8.2458 USD/h 44.62 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
8.2458 USD/h 44.62 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
8.2458 USD/h 44.62 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
8.4932 USD/h 45.959 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 45.959 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 45.959 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
8.9054 USD/h 48.1896 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
9.2352 USD/h 49.974 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
9.3178 USD/h 50.421 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
9.6476 USD/h 52.2054 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
9.8949 USD/h 53.544 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
9.9774 USD/h 53.99 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
10.3072 USD/h 55.775 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
10.3072 USD/h 55.775 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
10.7195 USD/h 58.006 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
10.7195 USD/h 58.006 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
10.7195 USD/h 58.006 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
10.8843 USD/h 58.898 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
11.0494 USD/h 59.791 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
6.4699 USD/h 64.699 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
11.9564 USD/h 64.699 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
11.9564 USD/h 64.699 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
11.9564 USD/h 64.699 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
12.4511 USD/h 67.376 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
12.781 USD/h 69.161 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
12.781 USD/h 69.161 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
12.8634 USD/h 69.607 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
12.8634 USD/h 69.607 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
14.3642 USD/h 77.7283 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
16.0793 USD/h 87.009 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
16.739 USD/h 90.579 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
21.4386 USD/h 116.01 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
208
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
104
CPU Speed
2.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8280L
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
5 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
208 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
105 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
840 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, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx512_vnni, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
137
Scalability
131.73

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
6 TB
Memory Amount Actual
6 TB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    4194 GB
    Storages
    • 4194 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A massive memory-optimized server featuring five point seven terabytes of RAM and two hundred eight dedicated virtual cores for enterprise databases.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M208ms_v2 is a memory-optimized server from the MSv2 family, powered by 208 dedicated Intel Xeon 8280L vCPUs running at 2.7 GHz on a Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features an exceptionally large memory capacity of 5700.0 GB and 4194 GB of local storage, with no integrated GPUs. While single-core benchmark performance is weak, its multi-core capabilities and memory bandwidth are in the top tier, with outstanding multi-threaded decompression and Redis SET operations. This server is designed for massive memory-intensive workloads, such as large-scale in-memory databases, enterprise database operations, and heavy multi-threaded data processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    4.67Score
    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) 16,076,918 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 8.38 50.00% 50.00% +189.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 87,996,138 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 7.53 20.00% 20.00% +49.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,731 2,418 0.716 10.00% 10.00% -3.29%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 380,094 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 3.51 10.00% 10.00% +13.40%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,963 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.85%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,117

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,847

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 83461
    Compression
    		 2624623
    Encryption
    		 82875
    Extended Instructions
    		 169323
    Floating Point Maths
    		 336895
    Integer Maths
    		 627939
    Physics
    		 9305
    Prime Numbers
    		 634
    Single Threaded
    		 1963
    String Sorting
    		 292411

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1731
    Database Operations
    		 18754
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22348
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 5380
    Memory Write
    		 3977

    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

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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    M416s_8_v2 4167600 GiB0
    M416s_9_v2 4168568 GiB0
    M416s_10_v2 4169496 GiB0

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