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M416-208s_v2 by Microsoft Azure

M416-208s_v2 is a MSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 416 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 208 vCPUs, 5700 GiB of memory and 8.39 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 7.1891 USD per hour.
208 vCPU
5700 GiB Memory
8.39 TB Storage
Spare SCore
187922
(All-cores)
1371
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M416-208s_v2
Name
M416-208s_v2
API Reference
Standard_M416-208s_v2
Description
MSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 416 vCPUs
Family
MSv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-15T07:02:59.588885

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US (US) / eastus
9.1624 USD/h 49.58 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
9.1624 USD/h 49.58 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
9.1624 USD/h 49.58 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
9.1624 USD/h 49.58 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
9.1624 USD/h 49.58 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
9.8954 USD/h 53.5464 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
10.2619 USD/h 55.53 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
10.3534 USD/h 56.025 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
10.72 USD/h 58.0086 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
10.9949 USD/h 59.496 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
10.9949 USD/h 59.496 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
10.9949 USD/h 59.496 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
10.9949 USD/h 59.496 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
10.9949 USD/h 59.496 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
10.9949 USD/h 59.496 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
10.9949 USD/h 59.496 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
11.0865 USD/h 59.992 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
11.453 USD/h 61.975 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
11.453 USD/h 61.975 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
11.9111 USD/h 64.454 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
11.9111 USD/h 64.454 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
12.0944 USD/h 65.446 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
12.2776 USD/h 66.437 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
7.1891 USD/h 71.891 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
13.2855 USD/h 71.891 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
13.2855 USD/h 71.891 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
13.2855 USD/h 71.891 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
13.8352 USD/h 74.866 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 74.866 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 74.866 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
13.9497 USD/h 75.4856 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
14.2017 USD/h 76.849 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
14.2017 USD/h 76.849 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
14.2934 USD/h 77.345 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
14.2934 USD/h 77.345 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
15.9608 USD/h 86.368 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
17.8666 USD/h 96.681 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
18.6001 USD/h 100.65 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
23.8226 USD/h 128.91 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
308 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
    8389 GB
    Storages
    • 8389 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A massive memory-optimized platform featuring over five terabytes of RAM and exceptional multi-core throughput for parallelized enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M416-208s_v2 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the MSv2 family, utilizing Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization. It features 208 vCPUs across 104 physical cores of dedicated Intel Xeon 8280L processors running at 2.7 GHz, paired with 5700.0 GB of RAM and 8389 GB of local storage. Performance benchmarks highlight a significant divergence: the server delivers top-tier multi-core CPU performance, exceptional memory bandwidth up to 10446.46 GB/sec, and top-tier Redis SET operations at 162.62 million operations per second. Conversely, single-core CPU performance and single-threaded compression tasks fall into the bottom 25%. This hardware profile is optimized for massive in-memory databases, heavy multi-threaded enterprise workloads, and large-scale data processing where massive memory capacity and parallel processing are required, offering high resource density at the expense of single-threaded efficiency.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    5.83Score
    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) 19,594,627 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 10.3 50.00% 50.00% +221.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 108,734,053 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 9.37 20.00% 20.00% +56.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,096 2,416 0.867 10.00% 10.00% -1.42%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 679,425 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 6.3 10.00% 10.00% +20.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,970 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.833 10.00% 10.00% -1.81%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,156

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 10,650

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 86616
    Compression
    		 2708493
    Encryption
    		 86475
    Extended Instructions
    		 168713
    Floating Point Maths
    		 336565
    Integer Maths
    		 625139
    Physics
    		 16840
    Prime Numbers
    		 929
    Single Threaded
    		 1970
    String Sorting
    		 325773

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2096
    Database Operations
    		 20472
    Memory Latency
    		 57
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22694
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6814
    Memory Write
    		 5027

    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
    M208s_v2 2082850 GiB0
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    M416s_v2 4165700 GiB0
    M416s_8_v2 4167600 GiB0
    M416s_9_v2 4168568 GiB0
    M416s_10_v2 4169496 GiB0

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