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M32-8ms by Microsoft Azure

M32-8ms is a MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 875 GiB of memory and 1.05 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.8912 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
875 GiB Memory
1.05 TB Storage
Spare SCore
5466
(All-cores)
1038
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M32-8ms
Name
M32-8ms
API Reference
Standard_M32-8ms
Description
MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
MS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
61
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-19T20:54:25.067394

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
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8280M
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
105 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
105 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
5.3
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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-intensive virtual machine offering massive RAM density and local storage for workloads with moderate processing requirements.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M32-8ms is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine powered by an Intel Xeon 8280M processor running at 2.7 GHz. It features 8 dedicated vCPUs across 4 physical cores, 1049 GB of local storage, and an exceptionally large memory capacity of 875.0 GB, providing 109.38 GB of RAM per core. Benchmark data indicates a clear tradeoff: while memory capacity is massive, compute performance is relatively weak, with stress-ng and Geekbench scores falling into the bottom 10% to 25% ranges. Memory write bandwidth is average at 31.04 GB/sec, but read bandwidth and database operations are lower-tier. This server is qualitatively cost-efficient for workloads requiring high memory density with minimal CPU core licensing requirements. It is best suited for large in-memory databases, caching systems, and memory-intensive enterprise applications with moderate processing needs.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.339Score
    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) 508,661 ops/sec 1,895,870 ops/sec 0.268 50.00% 50.00% -48.20%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,366,513 ops/sec 11,503,938 ops/sec 0.293 20.00% 20.00% -21.80%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,649 2,410 0.684 10.00% 10.00% -3.73%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 42,240 MB/sec 107,331 MB/sec 0.394 10.00% 10.00% -8.89%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,487 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.629 10.00% 10.00% -4.53%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 895

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,456

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		6371
    Compression
    		81078
    Encryption
    		2520
    Extended Instructions
    		5734
    Floating Point Maths
    		9819
    Integer Maths
    		18309
    Physics
    		760
    Prime Numbers
    		43
    Single Threaded
    		1487
    String Sorting
    		9656

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		1649
    Database Operations
    		2092
    Memory Latency
    		73
    Memory Read Cached
    		18109
    Memory Read Uncached
    		5940
    Memory Write
    		5937

    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
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    M32-16ms 16875 GiB0

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