Azure Speed Test

Region pricing

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

37 priced regions

Cheapest published price

North Central US

northcentralus

$0.6860

per hour, Linux Pay as you go

$500.78 estimated monthly

Operating system
Pricing model
Linux Pay as you go hourly prices for Standard_L8as_v4 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 northcentralus $0.6860 $500.78 0%
2 eastus $0.6880 $502.24 +0.29%
3 eastus2 $0.6880 $502.24 +0.29%
4 westus2 $0.6880 $502.24 +0.29%
5 westus3 $0.6880 $502.24 +0.29%
6 swedencentral $0.7170 $523.41 +4.52%
7 indonesiacentral $0.7250 $529.25 +5.69%
8 mexicocentral $0.7550 $551.15 +10.06%
9 spaincentral $0.7560 $551.88 +10.2%
10 canadacentral $0.7570 $552.61 +10.35%
11 northeurope $0.7600 $554.80 +10.79%
12 westus $0.7600 $554.80 +10.79%
13 centralus $0.7760 $566.48 +13.12%
14 centralindia $0.7790 $568.67 +13.56%
15 francecentral $0.7960 $581.08 +16.03%
16 italynorth $0.7960 $581.08 +16.03%
17 uksouth $0.8000 $584.00 +16.62%
18 japaneast $0.8050 $587.65 +17.35%
19 koreacentral $0.8050 $587.65 +17.35%
20 westeurope $0.8160 $595.68 +18.95%
21 austriaeast $0.8180 $597.14 +19.24%
22 belgiumcentral $0.8180 $597.14 +19.24%
23 germanywestcentral $0.8180 $597.14 +19.24%
24 polandcentral $0.8180 $597.14 +19.24%
25 australiaeast $0.8230 $600.79 +19.97%
26 newzealandnorth $0.8230 $600.79 +19.97%
27 southeastasia $0.8230 $600.79 +19.97%
28 southcentralus $0.8240 $601.52 +20.12%
29 westcentralus $0.8260 $602.98 +20.41%
30 uaenorth $0.8320 $607.36 +21.28%
31 denmarkeast $0.8940 $652.62 +30.32%
32 switzerlandnorth $0.9000 $657.00 +31.2%
33 southafricanorth $0.9020 $658.46 +31.49%
34 eastasia $0.9060 $661.38 +32.07%
35 chilecentral $0.9630 $702.99 +40.38%
36 norwayeast $0.9820 $716.86 +43.15%
37 brazilsouth $1.0960 $800.08 +59.77%

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_L8as_v4 encodes a specific attribute. The Standard_ prefix is omitted from the breakdown below.

L
Family — L-family size series
8
vCPUs — 8 vCPUs in the base size
a
Additive feature — AMD-based processor
s
Additive feature — Compatible with any Premium SSD type
_v4
Version — Generation 4 of this series
Microsoft naming guide
ARM SKU name
Standard_L8as_v4
Size
L8as_v4
Maximum data disks
16
Maximum network interfaces
4
GPU count
N/A

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
8
CPU architecture
x64
Disk controllers
NVMe
Hyper-V generations
V2
Maximum data disks
16
Maximum network interfaces
4
Memory (GB)
64
NVMe disk size MiB
1830912
NVMe max read bytes/sec
3000000000
NVMe max read IOPS
550000
NVMe max write bytes/sec
1500000000
NVMe max write IOPS
220000
NVMe size per disk MiB
457728
OS VHD size MB
1047552
Premium storage
True
RDMA
False
Resource volume MB
0
Temp and cached disk IOPS
36000
Temp and cached read bytes/sec
500000000
Temp and cached write bytes/sec
500000000
Uncached disk bytes/sec
360000000
Uncached disk IOPS
15200
vCPUs
8
vCPUs per core
2