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M208s_v2 by Microsoft Azure

M208s_v2 is a MSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 208 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 208 vCPUs, 2850 GiB of memory and 4.19 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 3.235 USD per hour.
208 vCPU
2850 GiB Memory
4.19 TB Storage
Spare SCore
187934
(All-cores)
1371
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M208s_v2
Name
M208s_v2
API Reference
Standard_M208s_v2
Description
MSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 208 vCPUs
Family
MSv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-25T20:01:45.112832

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US (US) / eastus
4.1229 USD/h 22.31 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
4.1229 USD/h 22.31 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
4.1229 USD/h 22.31 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
4.1229 USD/h 22.31 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
4.1229 USD/h 22.31 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
4.2465 USD/h 22.979 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 22.979 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 22.979 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
4.4527 USD/h 24.0948 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
4.6176 USD/h 24.987 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
4.6588 USD/h 25.21 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
4.8238 USD/h 26.1027 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
4.9473 USD/h 26.771 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
4.9473 USD/h 26.771 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
4.9475 USD/h 26.772 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
4.9475 USD/h 26.772 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
4.9475 USD/h 26.772 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
4.9475 USD/h 26.772 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
4.9475 USD/h 26.772 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
4.9887 USD/h 26.995 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
5.1537 USD/h 27.888 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
5.1537 USD/h 27.888 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
5.3598 USD/h 29.003 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
5.3598 USD/h 29.003 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
5.4422 USD/h 29.449 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
5.5246 USD/h 29.895 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
3.235 USD/h 32.35 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
5.9783 USD/h 32.35 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
5.9783 USD/h 32.35 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
5.9783 USD/h 32.35 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
6.2255 USD/h 33.688 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
6.3904 USD/h 34.58 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
6.3904 USD/h 34.58 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
6.4318 USD/h 34.804 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
6.4318 USD/h 34.804 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
8.0395 USD/h 43.504 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
8.3694 USD/h 45.289 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
10.7191 USD/h 58.004 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
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
104 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
39 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
154 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
3 TB
Memory Amount Actual
3 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

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized server featuring massive RAM capacity, high-bandwidth memory throughput, and exceptional multi-core performance for large-scale database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure M208s_v2 is an x86_64 memory-optimized server in the MSv2 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8280L processor with 208 dedicated vCPUs (104 physical cores) running at 2.7 GHz. It features 2850.0 GB of RAM, 4194 GB of local storage, and is premium storage capable, with no GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks show a significant tradeoff: single-core performance is weak, ranking in the bottom 25%, while multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics are in the top 10% tier. Specifically, memory bandwidth reaches 415.52 GB/sec for uncached large-block reads, and Redis SET operations achieve 153.96 million operations per second. This profile makes the instance highly efficient for massive in-memory databases, high-throughput Redis deployments, and multi-threaded data processing, whereas it is inefficient for single-threaded workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    4.96Score
    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) 16,532,961 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 8.72 50.00% 50.00% +195.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 92,076,361 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 7.98 20.00% 20.00% +51.50%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,036 2,411 0.844 10.00% 10.00% -1.68%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 432,262 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 4.03 10.00% 10.00% +15.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,971 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.834 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,147

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 10,361

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 84713
    Compression
    		 2671307
    Encryption
    		 84688
    Extended Instructions
    		 168414
    Floating Point Maths
    		 336929
    Integer Maths
    		 627899
    Physics
    		 10464
    Prime Numbers
    		 740
    Single Threaded
    		 1971
    String Sorting
    		 303226

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2036
    Database Operations
    		 20495
    Memory Latency
    		 58
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22497
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6522
    Memory Write
    		 4870

    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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