M64-32ms by Microsoft Azure

M64-32ms is a MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 64 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 32 vCPUs, 1792 GiB of memory and 2.1 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.4989 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
1792 GiB Memory
2.1 TB Storage
Spare SCore
21,888
(All-cores)
1,038
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M64-32ms
Name
M64-32ms
API Reference
Standard_M64-32ms
API Reference Object
-
Description
MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 64 vCPUs
Family
MS
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-19T04:21:36.882212

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US (US) / eastus
1.9103 USD/h 10.337 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.9103 USD/h 10.337 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
1.9103 USD/h 10.337 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
1.9103 USD/h 10.337 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
1.9103 USD/h 10.337 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
1.9711 USD/h 10.666 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 10.666 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 10.666 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
2.1013 USD/h 11.3707 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
2.1013 USD/h 11.3707 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
2.1517 USD/h 11.6436 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
2.2924 USD/h 12.405 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
2.2924 USD/h 12.405 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
2.4068 USD/h 13.024 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
2.4068 USD/h 13.024 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
2.407 USD/h 13.025 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
2.4929 USD/h 13.4898 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
2.4929 USD/h 13.4898 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
2.5216 USD/h 13.645 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
2.5216 USD/h 13.645 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
2.5225 USD/h 13.65 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
2.5598 USD/h 13.852 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
2.6744 USD/h 14.4718 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
2.6744 USD/h 14.472 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
2.6744 USD/h 14.472 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
2.6744 USD/h 14.472 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
2.6744 USD/h 14.472 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
2.6744 USD/h 14.472 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
2.6744 USD/h 14.472 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
1.4989 USD/h 14.989 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
2.77 USD/h 14.989 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
2.77 USD/h 14.989 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
2.77 USD/h 14.989 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
2.77 USD/h 14.989 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
2.77 USD/h 14.989 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
2.77 USD/h 14.989 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
2.77 USD/h 14.989 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
2.77 USD/h 14.989 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
2.7866 USD/h 15.079 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
2.8947 USD/h 15.664 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
2.9085 USD/h 15.7385 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
2.9419 USD/h 15.9192 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
2.98 USD/h 16.1256 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
3.2057 USD/h 17.347 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
3.2094 USD/h 17.367 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
3.4627 USD/h 18.7375 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
3.4766 USD/h 18.813 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
3.5264 USD/h 19.082 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
3.7252 USD/h 20.158 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
3.8245 USD/h 20.6951 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
4.2983 USD/h 23.2591 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
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
39 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
77 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
2 TB
Memory Amount Actual
2 TB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    2097 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 2097 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-intensive server featuring massive RAM capacity and local SSD storage, optimized for large-scale databases and in-memory caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M64-32ms is a memory-optimized server instance designed for memory-intensive workloads. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8280L processor with 16 physical cores and 32 dedicated vCPUs at 2.7 GHz, it features an exceptionally high memory capacity of 1792.0 GB (56.0 GB per core) and a 2097 GB local SSD. While single-core CPU benchmarks and LLM text generation speeds are relatively weak, multi-core performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations consistently achieve average tier results. This hardware profile makes the instance highly efficient for hosting large in-memory databases, Redis caches, and enterprise applications requiring massive RAM capacity, though it is less suited for compute-heavy or single-threaded tasks.

    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) 2,017,444 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 1.1 50.00% 50.00% +4.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 13,170,562 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 1.1 20.00% 20.00% +1.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,938 2,417 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 158,404 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,488 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 900

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,889

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 21408
    Compression
    		 319135
    Encryption
    		 10084
    Extended Instructions
    		 23512
    Floating Point Maths
    		 39275
    Integer Maths
    		 73337
    Physics
    		 2483
    Prime Numbers
    		 148
    Single Threaded
    		 1488
    String Sorting
    		 37975

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1938
    Database Operations
    		 8454
    Memory Latency
    		 72
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18313
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7085
    Memory Write
    		 7013

    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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