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M8-2ms by Microsoft Azure

M8-2ms is a MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 219 GiB of memory and 262 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2228 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
219 GiB Memory
262 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1352
(All-cores)
1020
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_M8-2ms
Name
M8-2ms
API Reference
Standard_M8-2ms
Description
MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
MS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27.33
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-21T22:18:57.870340

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2839 USD/h 1.536 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2839 USD/h 1.5365 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2839 USD/h 1.5365 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2839 USD/h 1.5365 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2839 USD/h 1.5365 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2929 USD/h 1.585 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.585 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.585 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3123 USD/h 1.6902 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.3123 USD/h 1.6902 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.3127 USD/h 1.6921 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.3208 USD/h 1.736 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.3407 USD/h 1.8438 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.3408 USD/h 1.844 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.3578 USD/h 1.936 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.3578 USD/h 1.936 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.3578 USD/h 1.936 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.369 USD/h 1.997 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.3705 USD/h 2.0051 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.3705 USD/h 2.0051 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.3748 USD/h 2.028 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.3748 USD/h 2.028 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.3751 USD/h 2.03 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.3805 USD/h 2.059 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.3975 USD/h 2.151 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.3975 USD/h 2.151 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.3975 USD/h 2.151 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.3975 USD/h 2.151 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.3975 USD/h 2.1511 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.3975 USD/h 2.1511 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.398 USD/h 2.1536 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.406 USD/h 2.197 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.2228 USD/h 2.2279 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.4117 USD/h 2.2279 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.4117 USD/h 2.2279 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.4117 USD/h 2.2279 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.4117 USD/h 2.2279 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.4117 USD/h 2.2279 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.4117 USD/h 2.2279 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.4117 USD/h 2.228 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.4117 USD/h 2.228 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.426 USD/h 2.305 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.4323 USD/h 2.3393 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.4373 USD/h 2.3662 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.443 USD/h 2.397 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.477 USD/h 2.581 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.5146 USD/h 2.7849 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.5167 USD/h 2.796 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.5537 USD/h 2.996 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.5684 USD/h 3.0758 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.6389 USD/h 3.457 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
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
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 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, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, 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
1.3
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A specialized high memory virtual machine designed for memory intensive applications that require minimal central processing unit resources.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure M8-2ms is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs from a single physical Intel Xeon 8280L core running at 2.7 GHz. It is configured with an exceptionally high memory capacity of 219.0 GB, yielding 109.38 GB per core, and includes 262 GB of local storage with premium storage support. Benchmark results reveal a distinct tradeoff: while the instance provides massive RAM density, its compute and memory bandwidth performance fall into the bottom 10% across stress-ng, Geekbench, and Passmark tests. This makes the server highly specialized for memory-intensive workloads with low CPU demands, such as large-scale caching or in-memory data structures. Qualitatively, it offers high resource density for memory-bound applications but is inefficient for compute-heavy tasks like software compilation or real-time data processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.114Score
    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) 119,268 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.0629 50.00% 50.00% -74.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 813,784 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.0705 20.00% 20.00% -41.20%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,354 2,411 0.562 10.00% 10.00% -5.60%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 23,139 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.216 10.00% 10.00% -14.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,416 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.599 10.00% 10.00% -5.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 878

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,059

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		1660
    Compression
    		19949
    Encryption
    		624
    Extended Instructions
    		1345
    Floating Point Maths
    		2434
    Integer Maths
    		4525
    Physics
    		224
    Prime Numbers
    		11
    Single Threaded
    		1416
    String Sorting
    		2560

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		1354
    Database Operations
    		530
    Memory Latency
    		73
    Memory Read Cached
    		17826
    Memory Read Uncached
    		7075
    Memory Write
    		7038

    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
    M32-16ms 16875 GiB0

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