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M8ms by Microsoft Azure

M8ms is a MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 219 GiB of memory and 262 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2228 USD per hour.

8 vCPU

219 GiB Memory

262 GB Storage

Spare SCore

5,448
(All-cores)

1,037
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID	azure
Server ID	Standard_M8ms
Name	M8ms
API Reference	Standard_M8ms
Description	MS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family	MS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start	30
Status	active
Observed At	2026-10-28T20:04:35.563091

Availability

REGION / ID	SPOT	ONDEMAND
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	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	66.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount	219 GiB
Memory Amount Actual	219 GiB

ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count	0
Accelerator Memory Min	0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total	0 MiB
Accelerators

STORAGE
Storage Size	262 GB
Storage Type	ssd
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 memory-intensive virtual server featuring high RAM density and dedicated Intel processors for memory-bound enterprise workloads.

Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

Microsoft Azure M8ms is a memory-optimized virtual machine designed for memory-intensive workloads. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8280M processor running on Microsoft Hyper-V, it provides 8 dedicated vCPUs across 4 physical cores at 2.7 GHz, backed by a 105 MB L3 cache. The server features 219.0 GB of RAM, offering a high memory-to-core ratio of 27.34 GB per core, alongside a 262 GB local SSD. Benchmark data shows weak to poor raw CPU and memory read performance, but average capabilities in large-block memory writes and small-model LLM inference. This hardware profile delivers high resource density for memory-bound tasks rather than compute-heavy operations. It is best suited for database hosting, in-memory caching, and enterprise applications requiring substantial memory capacity with moderate CPU requirements.

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

0.33Score

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
Component	Raw		Reference		Normalized	Target	Actual	Impact
Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET)	508,929	ops/sec	1,919,289	ops/sec	0.27	50.00%	50.00%	-48.00%
Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET)	3,368,280	ops/sec	11,728,058	ops/sec	0.28	20.00%	20.00%	-22.00%
PassMark Memory Mark (composite)	1,648		2,416		0.67	10.00%	10.00%	-3.90%
Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3)	40,210	MB/sec	108,466	MB/sec	0.36	10.00%	10.00%	-9.70%
PassMark single-thread CPU	1,485	Mops/s	2,365	Mops/s	0.62	10.00%	10.00%	-4.70%

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Score: 857

Geekbench Multi-Core

Score: 3,389

Passmark CPU Scores

BENCHMARK	SCORE
Mark	6,389
Compression	82,249
Encryption	2,521
Extended Instructions	5,738
Floating Point Maths	9,817
Integer Maths	18,295
Physics	756
Prime Numbers	43
Single Threaded	1,485
String Sorting	9,726

Passmark Memory Scores

BENCHMARK	SCORE
Memory Mark	1,648
Database Operations	2,106
Memory Latency	73
Memory Read Cached	18,250
Memory Read Uncached	5,919
Memory Write	5,920

Stress-ng Stressors

CPU integer	Single	Multi	Scaling
atomic	150.3	126.32	0.84×
bitops	99,366	478,757	4.82×
branch	92,432	575,763	6.23×
funccall	504.64	2,646	5.24×
funcret	8,366	52,717	6.30×
hash	119,249	690,899	5.79×
intmath	43,762	198,170	4.53×
nop	177,332	575,594	3.25×
prime	329,841	1,537,864	4.66×
rotate	66,904	287,173	4.29×
str	616,323	3,778,575	6.13×
wcs	462,621	2,343,053	5.06×

Cryptography	Single	Multi	Scaling
crypt	2,269	8,654	3.81×

Compression	Single	Multi	Scaling
jpeg	534.68	2,828	5.29×
zlib	46.24	221.59	4.79×

Hypervisor	Single	Multi	Scaling
clock	22,306	111,358	4.99×
clone	1,240	4,849	3.91×
context	2,044	14,100	6.90×
cpu-sched	65.01	504.56	7.76×
eventfd	30,272	540,696	17.86×
fault	13,135	60,944	4.64×
fork	4,155	18,971	4.57×
getrandom	38,448	230,130	5.99×
hrtimers	760,035	649,749	0.85×
mprotect	752,111	1,470,795	1.96×
mtx	11,512,434	133,443,387	11.59×
munmap	3,157	16,254	5.15×
null	244,434	1,649,342	6.75×
pipe	534,123	3,571,648	6.69×
priv-instr	432,686	2,576,975	5.96×
resched	1,728,548	500,815	0.29×
switch	106,587	1,465,572	13.75×
timermix	169,089	1,058,417	6.26×
tlb-shootdown	5,235	11,873	2.27×
tsc	609,026	3,721,019	6.11×
usersyscall	317,336	1,928,223	6.08×
vdso	57,387,280	352,714,226	6.15×
vfork	20,810	121,139	5.82×
x86syscall	2,786,442	18,686,318	6.71×
yield	4,385,473	4,168,134	0.95×
zero	1,803,466	11,243,292	6.23×

CPU float/SIMD	Single	Multi	Scaling
eigen	10,864	55,903	5.15×
expmath	2,355	13,730	5.83×
fma	929,311	5,191,875	5.59×
fp	206.4	1,280	6.20×
fractal	4.8	27	5.63×
hyperbolic	2,731	15,697	5.75×
logmath	3,490	22,039	6.31×
matrix	4,292	17,946	4.18×
matrix-3d	524.17	2,044	3.90×
monte-carlo	117.64	774.17	6.58×
mpfr	1,171	5,186	4.43×
powmath	1,302	7,918	6.08×
trig	1,796	9,423	5.25×
veccmp	17,274	73,447	4.25×
vecfp	1,633	7,311	4.48×
vecmath	2,631	14,814	5.63×
vecshuf	2,572	19,473	7.57×
vecwide	56,367	282,530	5.01×

Algorithms	Single	Multi	Scaling
bitonicsort	6	28.2	4.70×
bsearch	193.34	1,013	5.24×
bubblesort	0.6	3.2	5.33×
fibsearch	217.52	1,095	5.03×
heapsort	6.6	36	5.45×
hsearch	5,695	27,066	4.75×
insertionsort	8.4	29.8	3.55×
malloc	1,990,363	13,774,212	6.92×
mcontend	113.14	1,116	9.86×
mergesort	20.6	118.6	5.76×
qsort	14.8	82.8	5.59×
skiplist	3,677	23,329	6.34×
tree	1.2	6.4	5.33×

Memory	Single	Multi	Scaling
cache	283,087	480,529	1.70×
cachehammer	249,403	1,699,383	6.81×
cacheline	41.75	370.73	8.88×
l1cache	740.77	1,142	1.54×
memcpy	297.28	1,160	3.90×
memrate	1.57	6.79	4.32×
memthrash	78.38	297.65	3.80×
ptr-chase	24,967,640	91,687,523	3.67×
spinmem	248.39	265.17	1.07×
stream	13.58	501.56	36.93×
vm	82,102	291,737	3.55×

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

Servers of the Same Family

INSTANCE	vCPUs	MEMORY
M8-2ms	2	219 GiB
M8-4ms	4	219 GiB
M16-4ms	4	438 GiB
M16-8ms	8	438 GiB
M32-8ms	8	875 GiB
M16ms	16	438 GiB
M32-16ms	16	875 GiB

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Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Geekbench Multi-Core

Passmark CPU Scores

Passmark Memory Scores

Stress-ng Stressors

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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Specifications

Server Metadata

Availability

Processor

System Resources and Accelerators

CPU and System Topology

Server Description

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Geekbench Multi-Core

Passmark CPU Scores

Passmark Memory Scores

Stress-ng Stressors

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

Servers of the Same Family

Similar Servers

M8ms FAQs

What is M8ms?

What are the specs of the M8ms server?

How fast is the M8ms server?

How much does the M8ms server cost?

Who is the provider of the M8ms server?

Where is the M8ms server available?

Are there any other sized servers in the MS server family?

What other servers offer similar performance to M8ms?

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M8ms by Microsoft Azure