Standard_E96bds_v5: Azure VM Price, Specs and Regions

Region pricing

Linux Pay as you go hourly rates, sorted from lowest to highest. Monthly estimates use 730 hours.

58 priced regions

Cheapest published price

East US, East US 2, North Central US, West US 2, West US 3

eastus, eastus2, northcentralus, westus2, westus3

$8.0160

per hour, Linux Pay as you go

$5,851.68 estimated monthly

Operating system

Pricing model

Linux Pay as you go hourly prices for Standard_E96bds_v5 by Azure region, including each region's percentage above the cheapest price. Use a column heading button to change the sort order.
#				Est. monthly	Vs. cheapest
1	East US Cheapest	eastus	$8.0160	$5,851.68	0%
2	East US 2 Cheapest	eastus2	$8.0160	$5,851.68	0%
3	North Central US Cheapest	northcentralus	$8.0160	$5,851.68	0%
4	West US 2 Cheapest	westus2	$8.0160	$5,851.68	0%
5	West US 3 Cheapest	westus3	$8.0160	$5,851.68	0%
6	Central India	centralindia	$8.4480	$6,167.04	+5.39%
7	Jio India Central	jioindiacentral	$8.4480	$6,167.04	+5.39%
8	Jio India West	jioindiawest	$8.4480	$6,167.04	+5.39%
9	Sweden Central	swedencentral	$8.5200	$6,219.60	+6.29%
10	Indonesia Central	indonesiacentral	$8.6830	$6,338.59	+8.32%
11	Malaysia West	malaysiawest	$8.6830	$6,338.59	+8.32%
12	Mexico Central	mexicocentral	$8.8180	$6,437.14	+10%
13	Canada Central	canadacentral	$8.8560	$6,464.88	+10.48%
14	Canada East	canadaeast	$8.8560	$6,464.88	+10.48%
15	North Europe	northeurope	$8.9760	$6,552.48	+11.98%
16	Central US	centralus	$9.0580	$6,612.34	+13%
17	West US	westus	$9.0720	$6,622.56	+13.17%
18	Korea South	koreasouth	$9.2180	$6,729.14	+15%
19	France Central	francecentral	$9.4800	$6,920.40	+18.26%
20	UK South	uksouth	$9.4800	$6,920.40	+18.26%
21	Austria East	austriaeast	$9.5520	$6,972.96	+19.16%
22	Belgium Central	belgiumcentral	$9.5520	$6,972.96	+19.16%
23	Denmark East	denmarkeast	$9.5520	$6,972.96	+19.16%
24	Germany West Central	germanywestcentral	$9.5520	$6,972.96	+19.16%
25	Italy North	italynorth	$9.5520	$6,972.96	+19.16%
26	Korea Central	koreacentral	$9.5520	$6,972.96	+19.16%
27	Poland Central	polandcentral	$9.5520	$6,972.96	+19.16%
28	Spain Central	spaincentral	$9.5520	$6,972.96	+19.16%
29	West Europe	westeurope	$9.5520	$6,972.96	+19.16%
30	Japan West	japanwest	$9.6000	$7,008.00	+19.76%
31	South Central US	southcentralus	$9.6190	$7,021.87	+20%
32	West Central US	westcentralus	$9.6190	$7,021.87	+20%
33	Australia Central	australiacentral	$9.6480	$7,043.04	+20.36%
34	Australia Central 2	australiacentral2	$9.6480	$7,043.04	+20.36%
35	Australia East	australiaeast	$9.6480	$7,043.04	+20.36%
36	Southeast Asia	southeastasia	$9.6480	$7,043.04	+20.36%
37	UK West	ukwest	$9.6990	$7,080.27	+21%
38	Japan East	japaneast	$9.7440	$7,113.12	+21.56%
39	Israel Central	israelcentral	$9.8880	$7,218.24	+23.35%
40	Qatar Central	qatarcentral	$9.8880	$7,218.24	+23.35%
41	UAE North	uaenorth	$9.8880	$7,218.24	+23.35%
42	New Zealand North	newzealandnorth	$10.0870	$7,363.51	+25.84%
43	West India	westindia	$10.2600	$7,489.80	+27.99%
44	Australia Southeast	australiasoutheast	$10.4210	$7,607.33	+30%
45	East Asia	eastasia	$10.6560	$7,778.88	+32.93%
46	South Africa North	southafricanorth	$10.6560	$7,778.88	+32.93%
47	Chile Central	chilecentral	$11.2220	$8,192.06	+40%
48	South India	southindia	$11.3030	$8,251.19	+41.01%
49	Norway East	norwayeast	$11.4630	$8,367.99	+43%
50	Switzerland North	switzerlandnorth	$11.4630	$8,367.99	+43%
51	France South	francesouth	$12.3240	$8,996.52	+53.74%
52	Germany North	germanynorth	$12.4180	$9,065.14	+54.92%
53	Brazil South	brazilsouth	$12.7920	$9,338.16	+59.58%
54	UAE Central	uaecentral	$12.8540	$9,383.42	+60.35%
55	South Africa West	southafricawest	$13.8530	$10,112.69	+72.82%
56	Norway West	norwaywest	$14.9020	$10,878.46	+85.9%
57	Switzerland West	switzerlandwest	$14.9020	$10,878.46	+85.9%
58	Brazil Southeast	brazilsoutheast	$16.6300	$12,139.90	+107.46%

Vs. cheapest compares each region's hourly price with the lowest published price for the selected OS and pricing option. Source: Azure Retail Prices API, USD. Current on-demand retail rate with no term commitment. Windows reserved estimates retain the current Windows software surcharge and do not model Azure Hybrid Benefit. Prices exclude Low Priority, savings plans, storage, taxes, and negotiated discounts. Published pricing does not guarantee capacity or deployment eligibility.

SKU identity and primary specs

Canonical Resource SKUs fields and the most commonly compared capabilities.

How to read a VM size name

Each segment of Standard_DC8ads_v5 encodes a specific attribute. The Standard_ prefix is omitted from the display name.

D: Family — General-purpose D
C: Subfamily — Confidential computing
8: vCPUs — 8 virtual CPUs
a: Processor — AMD-based
d: Local disk — Includes a local temporary disk
s: Premium SSD — Compatible with Premium SSD
_v5: Version — 5th generation of this series

Microsoft naming guide

ARM SKU name: Standard_E96bds_v5
Size: E96bds_v5
Series: Ebdsv5 Series
Maximum data disks: 32
Maximum network interfaces: 8
GPU count: Not listed

Feature flags

Accelerated networkingPremium storage

Static capabilities

Only allowlisted values that were present and identical across every regional record for this SKU are included.

Accelerated networking: True
Available vCPUs: 96
CPU architecture: x64
Disk controllers: SCSI,NVMe
Hyper-V generations: V1,V2
Maximum data disks: 32
Maximum network interfaces: 8
Memory (GB): 672
OS VHD size MB: 1047552
Premium storage: True
RDMA: False
Resource volume MB: 3686400
Temp and cached disk IOPS: 450000
Temp and cached read bytes/sec: 4000000000
Temp and cached write bytes/sec: 4000000000
Uncached disk bytes/sec: 4000000000
Uncached disk IOPS: 120000
vCPUs: 96
vCPUs per core: 2