Azure Speed Test

Region pricing

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

10 priced regions

Cheapest published price

UK South

uksouth

$7.0270

per hour, Linux Pay as you go

$5,129.71 estimated monthly

Operating system
Pricing model
Linux Pay as you go hourly prices for Standard_GS5-16 by Azure region, including each region's percentage above the cheapest price. Use a column heading button to change the sort order.
#Est. monthlyVs. cheapest
1
UK South Cheapest
uksouth $7.0270 $5,129.71 0%
2 canadacentral $7.7440 $5,653.12 +10.2%
3 canadaeast $7.7440 $5,653.12 +10.2%
4 eastus2 $7.8200 $5,708.60 +11.29%
5 westus2 $7.8200 $5,708.60 +11.29%
6 westus $8.6900 $6,343.70 +23.67%
7 japaneast $9.2050 $6,719.65 +30.99%
8 southeastasia $9.3900 $6,854.70 +33.63%
9 westeurope $9.9900 $7,292.70 +42.17%
10 australiaeast $10.2080 $7,451.84 +45.27%

Vs. cheapest shows how each region compares with the lowest available public price. Prices are shown in USD and may vary by availability, capacity, and agreement.

SKU identity and primary specs

Canonical Resource SKUs fields and the most commonly compared capabilities.

How to read this VM size name

Each segment of Standard_GS5-16 encodes a specific attribute. The Standard_ prefix is omitted from the breakdown below.

G
Family — G-family size series
S
Additive feature — Compatible with any Premium SSD type
5
Size number — Relative position within the series; this size has 32 vCPUs
-16
Constrained vCPUs — Only 16 vCPUs are active, which lowers per-core licensing costs
Microsoft naming guide
ARM SKU name
Standard_GS5-16
Size
GS5-16
Maximum data disks
64
Maximum network interfaces
8
GPU count
N/A

Feature flags

Premium storage

Static capabilities

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

Accelerated networking
False
Available vCPUs
16
Azure compute units
180
Cached disk bytes
4535485464576
CPU architecture
x64
Hyper-V generations
V1,V2
Maximum data disks
64
Maximum network interfaces
8
Memory (GB)
448
OS VHD size MB
1047552
Premium storage
True
RDMA
False
Resource volume MB
917504
Temp and cached disk IOPS
160000
Temp and cached read bytes/sec
1600000000
Temp and cached write bytes/sec
1600000000
Uncached disk bytes/sec
2000000000
Uncached disk IOPS
80000
vCPUs
32
vCPUs per core
1