Azure Speed Test

Region pricing

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

7 priced regions

Cheapest published price

East US West US 2

eastus westus2

$1.6500

per hour, Linux Pay as you go

$1,204.50 estimated monthly

Operating system
Pricing model
Linux Pay as you go hourly prices for Standard_NP10s 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
East US Cheapest
eastus $1.6500 $1,204.50 0%
2
West US 2 Cheapest
westus2 $1.6500 $1,204.50 0%
3 canadacentral $1.9800 $1,445.40 +20%
4 southcentralus $1.9800 $1,445.40 +20%
5 southeastasia $2.1450 $1,565.85 +30%
6 westeurope $2.1450 $1,565.85 +30%
7 japaneast $2.3920 $1,746.16 +44.97%

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
Microsoft naming guide
ARM SKU name
Standard_NP10s
Size
NP10s
Maximum data disks
8
Maximum network interfaces
4
GPU count
1

Feature flags

1 GPUAccelerated 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
10
Cached disk bytes
343597383680
CPU architecture
x64
GPUs
1
Hyper-V generations
V1
Maximum data disks
8
Maximum network interfaces
4
Memory (GB)
168
OS VHD size MB
1047552
Premium storage
True
RDMA
False
Resource volume MB
753664
Temp and cached disk IOPS
30000
Temp and cached read bytes/sec
1048576000
Temp and cached write bytes/sec
1048576000
Uncached disk bytes/sec
307200000
Uncached disk IOPS
20000
vCPUs
10
vCPUs per core
1