M32ls by Microsoft Azure

M32ls is a MS family [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 1.05 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3448 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
1.05 TB Storage
Spare SCore
21,902
(All-cores)
1,039
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M32ls
Name
M32ls
API Reference
Standard_M32ls
Description
MS family [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 32 vCPUs
Family
MS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
63
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-30T13:08:39.281500

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US (US) / eastus
0.5309 USD/h 2.873 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.5309 USD/h 2.873 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.5309 USD/h 2.873 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.5309 USD/h 2.873 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.5309 USD/h 2.873 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.5478 USD/h 2.9641 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 2.9641 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 2.9641 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.584 USD/h 3.1603 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.584 USD/h 3.1603 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.584 USD/h 3.1603 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.5893 USD/h 3.189 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.5915 USD/h 3.201 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.5999 USD/h 3.246 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.6211 USD/h 3.361 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.6211 USD/h 3.361 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.6212 USD/h 3.3614 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.6212 USD/h 3.3614 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.6228 USD/h 3.37 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.3448 USD/h 3.4476 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.6371 USD/h 3.4476 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.6371 USD/h 3.4476 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.6371 USD/h 3.4476 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.6371 USD/h 3.4476 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.6371 USD/h 3.4476 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.6371 USD/h 3.4476 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.6371 USD/h 3.4476 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.6371 USD/h 3.4476 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.6371 USD/h 3.4476 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.6371 USD/h 3.4476 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.6372 USD/h 3.448 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.6372 USD/h 3.448 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.6372 USD/h 3.448 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.6372 USD/h 3.448 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.6372 USD/h 3.448 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.6372 USD/h 3.448 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.6533 USD/h 3.535 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.6533 USD/h 3.535 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.6542 USD/h 3.54 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.669 USD/h 3.62 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.669 USD/h 3.62 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.7008 USD/h 3.7924 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.7035 USD/h 3.8067 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.7077 USD/h 3.8297 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.7592 USD/h 4.108 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.8283 USD/h 4.4819 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.8283 USD/h 4.482 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.8468 USD/h 4.5824 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.892 USD/h 4.827 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.9111 USD/h 4.93 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
1.0061 USD/h 5.4443 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
768 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 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
21.1
Scalability
65.94

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    1049 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 1049 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    An x86_64 server balancing thirty-two dedicated Intel vCPUs and substantial memory for multi-threaded database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M32ls is an x86_64 server within the MS family, powered by 32 dedicated vCPUs from an Intel Xeon 8280L processor running at 2.7 GHz. It features 256.0 GB of RAM, a 105 MB L3 cache, and a bundled 1049 GB local SSD with Premium Storage capabilities. Operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the server exhibits a distinct performance profile: single-core benchmarks for CPU and compression fall into the bottom 10%, whereas multi-core execution, memory bandwidth, and database operations consistently achieve average, middle-tier results. This configuration offers a cost-effective entry point for memory-intensive workloads that do not require peak single-thread speed. It is best suited for database operations, caching layers, and multi-threaded enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1Score
    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) 1,996,231 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.1 50.00% 50.00% +4.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 12,659,999 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.1 20.00% 20.00% +1.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,146 2,416 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 114,318 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,489 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 912

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,551

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 21,054
    Compression
    		 319,367
    Encryption
    		 10,060
    Extended Instructions
    		 23,366
    Floating Point Maths
    		 39,319
    Integer Maths
    		 73,222
    Physics
    		 2,025
    Prime Numbers
    		 117
    Single Threaded
    		 1,489
    String Sorting
    		 37,864

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,146
    Database Operations
    		 8,766
    Memory Latency
    		 60
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18,242
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7,894
    Memory Write
    		 7,891

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 166.89 130.13 0.78×
    bitops
    		 108,120 2,079,631 19.23×
    branch
    		 100,635 2,500,909 24.85×
    funccall
    		 541.79 11,214 20.70×
    funcret
    		 9,069 228,647 25.21×
    hash
    		 128,910 2,996,855 23.25×
    intmath
    		 47,447 847,860 17.87×
    nop
    		 191,982 2,493,163 12.99×
    prime
    		 354,954 6,557,718 18.47×
    rotate
    		 72,566 1,233,837 17.00×
    str
    		 672,192 15,702,857 23.36×
    wcs
    		 504,990 10,220,536 20.24×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,461 37,556 15.26×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 579.85 12,089 20.85×
    zlib
    		 32.35 1,110 34.33×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 20,818 233,454 11.21×
    clone
    		 1,196 15,375 12.85×
    context
    		 2,160 59,470 27.53×
    cpu-sched
    		 65.08 2,049 31.49×
    eventfd
    		 32,216 732,622 22.74×
    fault
    		 15,639 174,246 11.14×
    fork
    		 4,045 43,234 10.69×
    getrandom
    		 41,497 998,034 24.05×
    hrtimers
    		 791,107 3,194,409 4.04×
    mprotect
    		 773,674 6,121,558 7.91×
    mtx
    		 9,743,939 616,878,699 63.31×
    munmap
    		 3,145 39,357 12.51×
    null
    		 255,939 6,789,064 26.53×
    pipe
    		 607,331 14,099,713 23.22×
    priv-instr
    		 458,602 9,709,892 21.17×
    resched
    		 7,614,246 1,772,345 0.23×
    switch
    		 106,791 6,265,863 58.67×
    timermix
    		 179,086 4,425,967 24.71×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 6,989 41,209 5.90×
    tsc
    		 660,024 16,164,906 24.49×
    usersyscall
    		 336,388 7,766,609 23.09×
    vdso
    		 62,256,444 1,527,815,567 24.54×
    vfork
    		 20,409 214,985 10.53×
    x86syscall
    		 2,916,698 76,834,531 26.34×
    yield
    		 19,508,156 21,079,529 1.08×
    zero
    		 1,915,624 47,656,772 24.88×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 11,776 238,403 20.24×
    expmath
    		 2,555 59,646 23.35×
    fma
    		 1,006,574 22,537,926 22.39×
    fp
    		 224.49 5,591 24.90×
    fractal
    		 5.2 117.22 22.54×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,950 68,243 23.13×
    logmath
    		 3,784 95,678 25.28×
    matrix
    		 4,602 83,924 18.24×
    matrix-3d
    		 543.75 3,710 6.82×
    monte-carlo
    		 127.92 3,323 25.98×
    mpfr
    		 1,270 22,365 17.61×
    powmath
    		 1,409 34,275 24.32×
    trig
    		 1,938 40,875 21.09×
    veccmp
    		 18,725 322,516 17.22×
    vecfp
    		 1,760 30,844 17.53×
    vecmath
    		 2,844 64,676 22.74×
    vecshuf
    		 2,793 84,248 30.17×
    vecwide
    		 61,051 1,225,090 20.07×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 6.4 121.6 19.00×
    bsearch
    		 209.76 4,360 20.79×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 12.8 16.00×
    fibsearch
    		 227.78 4,518 19.83×
    heapsort
    		 7 155.79 22.26×
    hsearch
    		 6,159 121,142 19.67×
    insertionsort
    		 9 130.2 14.47×
    malloc
    		 1,731,858 34,685,628 20.03×
    mcontend
    		 81.11 3,721 45.87×
    mergesort
    		 22.2 512.59 23.09×
    qsort
    		 16.2 361.19 22.30×
    skiplist
    		 3,985 100,850 25.31×
    tree
    		 1.2 19.19 15.99×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 179,272 868,298 4.84×
    cachehammer
    		 138,925 3,284,595 23.64×
    cacheline
    		 36.78 1,981 53.85×
    l1cache
    		 796.33 4,841 6.08×
    memcpy
    		 322.2 5,114 15.87×
    memrate
    		 1.18 12.29 10.42×
    memthrash
    		 164.36 803.33 4.89×
    ptr-chase
    		 7,952,852 169,862,651 21.36×
    spinmem
    		 226.39 1,229 5.43×
    stream
    		 9.49 3,829 403.52×
    vm
    		 77,623 294,865 3.80×

    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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