Azure VM size
Standard_F16ads_v7
Compare Linux and Windows pay-as-you-go, 1-year reserved, 3-year reserved, and Spot pricing for this VM size across Azure regions, with available hardware specifications and series metadata.
- vCPUs
- 16
- Memory
- 64 GB
- Architecture
- x64
- Priced regions
- 32
Region pricing
Linux Pay as you go hourly rates, sorted from lowest to highest. Monthly estimates use 730 hours.
Cheapest published price
Central India, Jio India West
centralindia, jioindiawest
$0.8860
per hour, Linux Pay as you go
$646.78 estimated monthly
| # | Est. monthly | Vs. cheapest | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central India Cheapest | centralindia | $0.8860 | $646.78 | 0% |
| 2 | Jio India West Cheapest | jioindiawest | $0.8860 | $646.78 | 0% |
| 3 | centralus | $1.3720 | $1,001.56 | +54.85% | |
| 4 | eastus | $1.3720 | $1,001.56 | +54.85% | |
| 5 | eastus2 | $1.3720 | $1,001.56 | +54.85% | |
| 6 | northcentralus | $1.3720 | $1,001.56 | +54.85% | |
| 7 | southcentralus | $1.3720 | $1,001.56 | +54.85% | |
| 8 | westus2 | $1.3720 | $1,001.56 | +54.85% | |
| 9 | westus3 | $1.3720 | $1,001.56 | +54.85% | |
| 10 | swedencentral | $1.4660 | $1,070.18 | +65.46% | |
| 11 | mexicocentral | $1.5090 | $1,101.57 | +70.32% | |
| 12 | canadacentral | $1.5310 | $1,117.63 | +72.8% | |
| 13 | northeurope | $1.5310 | $1,117.63 | +72.8% | |
| 14 | uksouth | $1.5950 | $1,164.35 | +80.02% | |
| 15 | francecentral | $1.6110 | $1,176.03 | +81.83% | |
| 16 | italynorth | $1.6110 | $1,176.03 | +81.83% | |
| 17 | spaincentral | $1.6110 | $1,176.03 | +81.83% | |
| 18 | westus | $1.6110 | $1,176.03 | +81.83% | |
| 19 | polandcentral | $1.6570 | $1,209.61 | +87.02% | |
| 20 | germanywestcentral | $1.6590 | $1,211.07 | +87.25% | |
| 21 | westeurope | $1.6590 | $1,211.07 | +87.25% | |
| 22 | koreacentral | $1.6910 | $1,234.43 | +90.86% | |
| 23 | uaenorth | $1.6910 | $1,234.43 | +90.86% | |
| 24 | australiaeast | $1.7240 | $1,258.52 | +94.58% | |
| 25 | southeastasia | $1.7240 | $1,258.52 | +94.58% | |
| 26 | japaneast | $1.7860 | $1,303.78 | +101.58% | |
| 27 | japanwest | $1.7860 | $1,303.78 | +101.58% | |
| 28 | southafricanorth | $1.8340 | $1,338.82 | +107% | |
| 29 | eastasia | $1.8980 | $1,385.54 | +114.22% | |
| 30 | norwayeast | $1.9630 | $1,432.99 | +121.56% | |
| 31 | switzerlandnorth | $1.9630 | $1,432.99 | +121.56% | |
| 32 | brazilsouth | $2.2020 | $1,607.46 | +148.53% |
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
- ARM SKU name
- Standard_F16ads_v7
- Size
- F16ads_v7
- Series
- Fadsv7 Series
- Maximum data disks
- 64
- Maximum network interfaces
- 8
- GPU count
- Not listed
Feature flags
Static capabilities
Only allowlisted values that were present and identical across every regional record for this SKU are included.
- Accelerated networking
- True
- Available vCPUs
- 16
- CPU architecture
- x64
- Disk controllers
- NVMe
- Hyper-V generations
- V2
- Maximum data disks
- 64
- Maximum network interfaces
- 8
- Memory (GB)
- 64
- NVMe disk size MiB
- 1802240
- NVMe max read bytes/sec
- 4480000000
- NVMe max read IOPS
- 600000
- NVMe max write bytes/sec
- 2240000000
- NVMe max write IOPS
- 240000
- NVMe size per disk MiB
- 450560
- OS VHD size MB
- 1047552
- Premium storage
- True
- RDMA
- False
- Resource volume MB
- 0
- Temp and cached disk IOPS
- 72000
- Temp and cached read bytes/sec
- 1000000000
- Temp and cached write bytes/sec
- 1000000000
- Uncached disk bytes/sec
- 1872000000
- Uncached disk IOPS
- 64000
- vCPUs
- 16
- vCPUs per core
- 1