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M32-16ms by Microsoft Azure

M32-16ms is a MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 875 GiB of memory and 1.05 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.8912 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
875 GiB Memory
1.05 TB Storage
Spare SCore
14467
(All-cores)
1371
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M32-16ms
Name
M32-16ms
API Reference
Standard_M32-16ms
Description
MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
MS
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-02T16:45:13.088638

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US (US) / eastus
1.1358 USD/h 6.146 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.1358 USD/h 6.146 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
1.1358 USD/h 6.146 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.1358 USD/h 6.146 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.1358 USD/h 6.146 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
1.1718 USD/h 6.341 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 6.341 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 6.341 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.2494 USD/h 6.7606 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
1.2494 USD/h 6.7606 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
1.2494 USD/h 6.7606 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
1.2834 USD/h 6.945 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
1.3629 USD/h 7.375 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
1.3629 USD/h 7.3752 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
1.4311 USD/h 7.744 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
1.4311 USD/h 7.744 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
1.4311 USD/h 7.744 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
1.4766 USD/h 7.99 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
1.4822 USD/h 8.0205 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
1.4822 USD/h 8.0205 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
1.4987 USD/h 8.11 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
1.4993 USD/h 8.113 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
1.4993 USD/h 8.113 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
1.522 USD/h 8.236 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
1.59 USD/h 8.604 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
1.59 USD/h 8.604 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
1.59 USD/h 8.604 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
1.59 USD/h 8.604 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
1.5901 USD/h 8.6044 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
1.5901 USD/h 8.6044 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.5901 USD/h 8.6044 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
1.6242 USD/h 8.789 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.8912 USD/h 8.9117 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
1.6469 USD/h 8.9117 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
1.6469 USD/h 8.9117 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
1.6469 USD/h 8.9117 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
1.6469 USD/h 8.9117 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
1.6469 USD/h 8.9117 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
1.6469 USD/h 8.9117 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
1.6469 USD/h 8.912 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
1.6469 USD/h 8.912 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
1.7207 USD/h 9.3112 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
1.7292 USD/h 9.3573 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
1.7491 USD/h 9.4648 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
1.7719 USD/h 9.588 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
1.9081 USD/h 10.325 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
2.0586 USD/h 11.1396 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
2.0672 USD/h 11.186 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
2.2148 USD/h 11.985 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
2.2739 USD/h 12.3048 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
2.5554 USD/h 13.828 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 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
10.6
Scalability
132.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
875 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
875 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    1049 GB
    Storages
    • 1049 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-intensive virtual server featuring massive RAM capacity and local storage for demanding database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M32-16ms is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MS family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8280M processor with 16 dedicated vCPUs and 8 physical cores. It features an exceptionally large memory capacity of 875.0 GB, translating to 54.69 GB of RAM per core, alongside 1049 GB of local storage. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this x86_64 server is designed for memory-intensive workloads. Benchmark data reveals average multi-core and memory bandwidth performance, contrasted by weaker single-core processing capabilities. With a Redis SET throughput of 10.43 million operations per second and average database performance, this server is qualitatively optimized for high-capacity memory density rather than raw compute speed. It is highly suited for large in-memory databases, caching layers, and enterprise applications requiring massive RAM allocations.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.584Score
    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) 1,012,528 ops/sec 1,899,582 ops/sec 0.533 50.00% 50.00% -27.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,526,745 ops/sec 11,503,938 ops/sec 0.567 20.00% 20.00% -10.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,745 2,412 0.723 10.00% 10.00% -3.19%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 78,184 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.728 10.00% 10.00% -3.12%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,488 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.629 10.00% 10.00% -4.53%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,080

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,670

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11844
    Compression
    		 160125
    Encryption
    		 5039
    Extended Instructions
    		 11787
    Floating Point Maths
    		 19644
    Integer Maths
    		 36542
    Physics
    		 1214
    Prime Numbers
    		 68
    Single Threaded
    		 1488
    String Sorting
    		 19135

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1745
    Database Operations
    		 4144
    Memory Latency
    		 74
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18255
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 5887
    Memory Write
    		 6251

    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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    M16-8ms 8438 GiB0
    M32-8ms 8875 GiB0
    M16ms 16438 GiB0

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