Instances Azure VM Standard_D16ns_v6 Standard_D16ns_v6
Standard_D16ns_v6 is an Azure VM size with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)). In East US it costs $1.114 per hour on demand ($813.22 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.655 per hour, 41% less. Spot capacity is about $0.2349 per hour. It is sold in 57 regions; the cheapest is Central US at $1.114 per hour.
USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.
Region On-demand Spot 1-yr reserved 3-yr reserved 1-yr savings plan 3-yr savings plan Central US centralus $1.114 $0.2056 $0.655 $0.3737 $0.7586 $0.4476 East US eastus $1.114 $0.2349 $0.655 $0.3737 $0.7586 $0.4476 East US 2 eastus2 $1.114 $0.2059 $0.655 $0.3737 $0.7586 $0.4476 North Central US northcentralus $1.114 $0.2059 $0.6572 $0.3787 $0.7575 $0.4456 West US 2 westus2 $1.114 $0.2059 $0.6572 $0.3787 $0.7575 $0.4456 West US 3 westus3 $1.114 $0.2059 $0.6572 $0.3787 $0.7575 $0.4456 Central India centralindia $1.161 $0.2146 $0.6848 $0.3946 $0.8127 $0.4644 Jio India Central jioindiacentral $1.161 – – – – – Jio India West jioindiawest $1.161 – – – – – Sweden Central swedencentral $1.184 $0.2188 $0.6985 $0.3907 $0.888 $0.6157 Mexico Central mexicocentral $1.225 $0.2264 $0.7228 $0.4166 $0.833 $0.49 Canada Central canadacentral $1.241 $0.2293 $0.7324 $0.4221 $0.8439 $0.4964 Canada East canadaeast $1.241 $0.2293 $0.7324 $0.4221 $0.8439 $0.4964 Spain Central spaincentral $1.241 $0.2293 $0.7324 $0.4221 $0.9308 $0.5585 Korea South koreasouth $1.281 $0.2367 $0.7557 $0.4611 $0.8711 $0.5508 West US westus $1.30 $0.2402 $0.7642 $0.436 $1.039 $0.6027 Germany West Central germanywestcentral $1.32 $0.2439 $0.7787 $0.5015 $1.003 $0.6336 Poland Central polandcentral $1.32 $0.2439 $0.7787 $0.4487 $1.003 $0.6336 South Central US southcentralus $1.337 $0.2471 $0.7861 $0.4484 $0.9105 $0.5372 West Central US westcentralus $1.337 $0.2471 $0.7861 $0.4484 $0.9105 $0.5372 Korea Central koreacentral $1.348 $0.2491 $0.7952 $0.4852 $0.9166 $0.5796 UK West ukwest $1.348 $0.2491 $0.7952 $0.4582 $1.011 $0.6066 Southeast Asia southeastasia $1.367 $0.2526 $0.8063 $0.4646 $0.9569 $0.5605 France Central francecentral $1.392 $0.2572 $0.8215 $0.4734 $1.044 $0.6264 UK South uksouth $1.392 $0.2446 $0.8187 $0.4671 $1.042 $0.6299 US Gov Texas usgovtexas $1.392 $0.2572 $0.8187 $0.4828 – – US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia $1.392 $0.2572 $0.8187 $0.4828 – – US Gov Arizona usgovarizona $1.395 $0.2578 $0.8201 $0.4837 – – Australia Central australiacentral $1.404 $0.2595 $0.8283 $0.5195 $1.025 $0.6318 Australia Central 2 australiacentral2 $1.404 $0.1404 $0.8283 $0.5195 $1.025 $0.6318 Australia East australiaeast $1.404 $0.2595 $0.8283 $0.5195 $1.025 $0.6318 West India westindia $1.426 $0.2635 $0.8412 $0.4847 $0.9982 $0.5704 Japan East japaneast $1.432 $0.2646 $0.845 $0.5442 $1.074 $0.6587 Australia Southeast australiasoutheast $1.448 $0.2676 $0.8543 $0.5358 $1.057 $0.6516 Italy North italynorth $1.448 $0.2676 $0.8543 $0.4923 $1.086 $0.6516 Taiwan North taiwannorth $1.448 $0.2676 $0.8543 $0.5213 $0.9846 $0.6226 North Europe northeurope $1.452 $0.2683 $0.8565 $0.4936 $1.089 $0.6534 West Europe westeurope $1.452 $0.2683 $0.8565 $0.4936 $1.089 $0.6534 Switzerland North switzerlandnorth $1.468 $0.2713 $0.866 $0.499 $1.116 $0.7046 Sweden South swedensouth $1.539 $0.2844 $0.9081 $0.508 $1.154 $0.8003 South India southindia $1.571 $0.2903 $0.9266 $0.534 $1.10 $0.6284 Israel Central israelcentral $1.593 $0.2944 $0.9397 $0.5734 $1.179 $0.685 Norway East norwayeast $1.593 $0.2944 $0.9397 $0.5416 $1.211 $0.7646 Qatar Central qatarcentral $1.593 $0.2944 $0.9239 $0.5734 $1.179 $0.7009 UAE North uaenorth $1.593 $0.2944 $0.9397 $0.5734 $1.179 $0.685 Japan West japanwest $1.615 $0.2985 $0.9529 $0.6137 $1.211 $0.7429 South Africa North southafricanorth $1.626 $0.3005 $0.9595 $0.5854 $1.203 $0.6992 Germany North germanynorth $1.716 $0.3171 $1.012 $0.5662 $1.287 $0.8923 East Asia eastasia $1.726 $0.319 $1.015 $0.5891 $1.211 $0.7052 France South francesouth $1.81 $0.3345 $1.068 $0.6154 $1.357 $0.8145 Taiwan North West taiwannorthwest $1.882 $0.3478 $1.111 $0.6777 $1.28 $0.8093 Switzerland West switzerlandwest $1.908 $0.3526 $1.126 $0.6487 $1.45 $0.9158 UAE Central uaecentral $2.071 $0.3827 $1.222 $0.7454 $1.532 $0.8905 Norway West norwaywest $2.072 $0.3829 $1.222 $0.7044 $1.575 $0.9946 South Africa West southafricawest $2.114 $0.3907 $1.247 $0.7611 $1.564 $0.909 Brazil South brazilsouth $2.228 $0.4117 $1.314 $0.7574 $1.515 $0.8912 Brazil Southeast brazilsoutheast $2.896 $0.5352 $1.709 $0.9846 $1.969 $1.158
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $1.114 $0.655 $0.3737 Windows $1.85 $1.391 $1.11
Compute Value vCPUs 16 Physical cores 8 Threads per core 2 Architecture x86_64 Processor Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 64
Networking Value Network 50 Gbps Accelerated networking Yes Max network interfaces 8
Storage Value Max data disks 48 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 25,600 Max disk throughput (uncached) 848 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk No
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_D16ns_v6 Family Dnsv6 Category Memory optimized VM generations V2 Encryption at host Yes
Other Value Series dnsv6-series Specs source Azure Resource SKUs API
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