Standard_M8-4ms Azure VM Pricing & Specs

Region pricing

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

51 priced regions

Cheapest published price

West US 3

westus3

$1.5360

per hour, Linux Pay as you go

$1,121.28 estimated monthly

Operating system

Pricing model

Linux Pay as you go hourly prices for Standard_M8-4ms 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	West US 3 Cheapest	westus3	$1.5360	$1,121.28	0%
2	East US	eastus	$1.5365	$1,121.65	+0.03%
3	East US 2	eastus2	$1.5365	$1,121.65	+0.03%
4	North Central US	northcentralus	$1.5365	$1,121.65	+0.03%
5	West US 2	westus2	$1.5365	$1,121.65	+0.03%
6	Central India	centralindia	$1.5850	$1,157.05	+3.19%
7	Jio India Central	jioindiacentral	$1.5850	$1,157.05	+3.19%
8	Jio India West	jioindiawest	$1.5850	$1,157.05	+3.19%
9	Canada Central	canadacentral	$1.69015	$1,233.81	+10.04%
10	Canada East	canadaeast	$1.69015	$1,233.81	+10.04%
11	Mexico Central	mexicocentral	$1.692082	$1,235.22	+10.16%
12	Central US	centralus	$1.7360	$1,267.28	+13.02%
13	North Europe	northeurope	$1.8438	$1,345.97	+20.04%
14	South Central US	southcentralus	$1.8440	$1,346.12	+20.05%
15	France Central	francecentral	$1.9360	$1,413.28	+26.04%
16	UK South	uksouth	$1.9360	$1,413.28	+26.04%
17	UK West	ukwest	$1.9360	$1,413.28	+26.04%
18	West US	westus	$1.9970	$1,457.81	+30.01%
19	Indonesia Central	indonesiacentral	$2.0051	$1,463.72	+30.54%
20	Malaysia West	malaysiawest	$2.0051	$1,463.72	+30.54%
21	Israel Central	israelcentral	$2.0280	$1,480.44	+32.03%
22	UAE North	uaenorth	$2.0280	$1,480.44	+32.03%
23	Qatar Central	qatarcentral	$2.0300	$1,481.90	+32.16%
24	South Africa North	southafricanorth	$2.0590	$1,503.07	+34.05%
25	Austria East	austriaeast	$2.1510	$1,570.23	+40.04%
26	Germany West Central	germanywestcentral	$2.1510	$1,570.23	+40.04%
27	Poland Central	polandcentral	$2.1510	$1,570.23	+40.04%
28	Sweden Central	swedencentral	$2.1510	$1,570.23	+40.04%
29	Italy North	italynorth	$2.1511	$1,570.30	+40.05%
30	West Europe	westeurope	$2.1511	$1,570.30	+40.05%
31	Spain Central	spaincentral	$2.153558	$1,572.10	+40.21%
32	Norway East	norwayeast	$2.1970	$1,603.81	+43.03%
33	Australia Central	australiacentral	$2.2279	$1,626.37	+45.05%
34	Australia Central 2	australiacentral2	$2.2279	$1,626.37	+45.05%
35	Australia East	australiaeast	$2.2279	$1,626.37	+45.05%
36	Australia Southeast	australiasoutheast	$2.2279	$1,626.37	+45.05%
37	Japan East	japaneast	$2.2279	$1,626.37	+45.05%
38	Japan West	japanwest	$2.2279	$1,626.37	+45.05%
39	Southeast Asia	southeastasia	$2.2279	$1,626.37	+45.05%
40	Korea Central	koreacentral	$2.2280	$1,626.44	+45.05%
41	Korea South	koreasouth	$2.2280	$1,626.44	+45.05%
42	South India	southindia	$2.3050	$1,682.65	+50.07%
43	New Zealand North	newzealandnorth	$2.339295	$1,707.69	+52.3%
44	Switzerland North	switzerlandnorth	$2.36621	$1,727.33	+54.05%
45	UAE Central	uaecentral	$2.3970	$1,749.81	+56.05%
46	South Africa West	southafricawest	$2.5810	$1,884.13	+68.03%
47	East Asia	eastasia	$2.784875	$2,032.96	+81.31%
48	Germany North	germanynorth	$2.7960	$2,041.08	+82.03%
49	Brazil South	brazilsouth	$2.9960	$2,187.08	+95.05%
50	Switzerland West	switzerlandwest	$3.0758	$2,245.33	+100.25%
51	Brazil Southeast	brazilsoutheast	$3.4570	$2,523.61	+125.07%

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_M8-4ms encodes a specific attribute. The Standard_ prefix is omitted from the breakdown below.

M: Family — M-family size series
8: vCPUs — 8 vCPUs in the base size
-4: Constrained vCPUs — Only 4 vCPUs are active, which lowers per-core licensing costs
m: Additive feature — Memory intensive; highest vCPU to memory ratio in the series
s: Additive feature — Compatible with any Premium SSD type

Microsoft naming guide

ARM SKU name: Standard_M8-4ms
Size: M8-4ms
Series: MS Series
Maximum data disks: 8
Maximum network interfaces: 2
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: 4
Azure compute units: 160
Cached disk bytes: 851477266432
CPU architecture: x64
Hyper-V generations: V1,V2
Maximum data disks: 8
Maximum network interfaces: 2
Memory (GB): 218.75
OS VHD size MB: 1047552
Premium storage: True
RDMA: False
Resource volume MB: 262144
Temp and cached disk IOPS: 10000
Temp and cached read bytes/sec: 100000000
Temp and cached write bytes/sec: 100000000
Uncached disk bytes/sec: 125000000
Uncached disk IOPS: 5000
vCPUs: 8
vCPUs per core: 2
Write Accelerator disks: 1