Standard_DC64es_v6

Standard_DC64es_v6 is an Azure VM size with 64 vCPUs, 256 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)). In East US it costs $3.548 per hour on demand ($2,590.04 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $2.839 per hour, 20% less. Spot capacity is about $0.6557 per hour. It is sold in 4 regions.

Prices by region

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
East US eastus	$3.548	$0.6557	$2.839	$2.129	$3.016	$2.306
West US 3 westus3	$3.548	$0.6557	$2.839	$2.129	$3.016	$2.306
West US westus	$4.14	$0.7651	$3.312	$2.484	$3.519	$2.691
West Europe westeurope	$4.251	$0.7856	$3.401	$2.55	$3.613	$2.763

Reserved and Savings Plans Spot prices by region Windows prices by region AWS equivalents

Prices by operating system in East US

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$3.548	$2.839	$2.129
Windows	$6.492	$5.783	$5.073

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	64
Physical cores	32
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	256

Networking	Value
Network	25 Gbps
Accelerated networking	Yes
Max network interfaces	8

Storage	Value
Max data disks	64
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	102,400
Max disk throughput (uncached)	3,392 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	No

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_DC64es_v6
Family	DCesv6
Category	General purpose
VM generations	V2
Encryption at host	Yes
Confidential computing	TDX

Other	Value
Series	dcesv6-series
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

Compare Standard_DC64es_v6

Other generations

vs Standard_DC64es_v5

Other DCesv6 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
Standard_DC2es_v6	2	8	$0.111
Standard_DC4es_v6	4	16	$0.222
Standard_DC8es_v6	8	32	$0.444
Standard_DC16es_v6	16	64	$0.887
Standard_DC32es_v6	32	128	$1.774
Standard_DC48es_v6	48	192	$2.661
Standard_DC64es_v6	64	256	$3.548
Standard_DC96es_v6	96	384	$5.322
Standard_DC128es_v6	128	512	$7.096

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes.