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

West US 2

westus2

$1.2480

per hour, Linux Pay as you go

$911.04 estimated monthly

Operating system
Pricing model
Linux Pay as you go hourly prices for Standard_L16s 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
West US 2 Cheapest
westus2 $1.2480 $911.04 0%
2 eastus2 $1.3730 $1,002.29 +10.02%
3 canadacentral $1.3760 $1,004.48 +10.26%
4 canadaeast $1.3760 $1,004.48 +10.26%
5 westus $1.3760 $1,004.48 +10.26%
6 uksouth $1.4480 $1,057.04 +16.03%
7 japaneast $1.4640 $1,068.72 +17.31%
8 westeurope $1.4880 $1,086.24 +19.23%
9 australiaeast $1.4960 $1,092.08 +19.87%
10 southeastasia $1.4960 $1,092.08 +19.87%

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_L16s encodes a specific attribute. The Standard_ prefix is omitted from the breakdown below.

L
Family — L-family size series
16
vCPUs — 16 vCPUs in the base size
s
Additive feature — Compatible with any Premium SSD type
Microsoft naming guide
ARM SKU name
Standard_L16s
Size
L16s
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
32212254720
CPU architecture
x64
Hyper-V generations
V1,V2
Maximum data disks
64
Maximum network interfaces
8
Memory (GB)
128
OS VHD size MB
1047552
Premium storage
True
RDMA
False
Resource volume MB
2874368
Temp and cached disk IOPS
80000
Temp and cached read bytes/sec
800000000
Temp and cached write bytes/sec
800000000
Uncached disk bytes/sec
500000000
Uncached disk IOPS
20000
vCPUs
16
vCPUs per core
1