Instances Azure VM Standard_DC8ads_v5 Standard_DC8ads_v5
Standard_DC8ads_v5 is an Azure VM size with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB memory (AMD EPYC (Milan)). In East US it costs $0.412 per hour on demand ($300.76 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.3296 per hour, 20% less. Spot capacity is about $0.087 per hour. It is sold in 18 regions; the cheapest is Central India at $0.268 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 India centralindia $0.268 $0.0495 $0.2147 $0.161 $0.2275 $0.1735 Jio India Central jioindiacentral $0.268 – – – – – Jio India West jioindiawest $0.268 – – – – – East US eastus $0.412 $0.087 $0.3296 $0.2472 $0.3489 $0.2678 East US 2 eastus2 $0.412 $0.0761 $0.3296 $0.2472 $0.3489 $0.2678 North Europe northeurope $0.46 $0.085 $0.368 $0.276 $0.4141 $0.3252 Central US centralus $0.466 $0.086 $0.3296 $0.2472 $0.4195 $0.3288 UK South uksouth $0.48 $0.0887 $0.384 $0.288 $0.4218 $0.3331 Indonesia Central indonesiacentral $0.482 $0.0891 $0.386 $0.2894 $0.4092 $0.3121 West US westus $0.488 $0.0902 $0.3904 $0.2928 $0.4393 $0.338 Germany West Central germanywestcentral $0.5 $0.0924 $0.4 $0.3 $0.442 $0.3535 Italy North italynorth $0.5 $0.0924 $0.4 $0.3 $0.4502 $0.3535 West Europe westeurope $0.5 $0.0924 $0.4 $0.3 $0.4502 $0.3535 UAE North uaenorth $0.508 $0.0939 $0.4061 $0.3046 $0.4574 $0.3592 Southeast Asia southeastasia $0.516 $0.0954 $0.4128 $0.3096 $0.4387 $0.3355 Japan East japaneast $0.536 $0.0991 $0.4288 $0.3216 $0.4699 $0.3732 East Asia eastasia $0.568 $0.105 $0.4545 $0.3408 $0.5114 $0.4016 Switzerland North switzerlandnorth $0.589 $0.1088 $0.4713 $0.3535 $0.5303 $0.4164
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $0.412 $0.3296 $0.2472 Windows $0.78 $0.6976 $0.6152
Compute Value vCPUs 8 Physical cores 4 Threads per core 2 Architecture x86_64 Processor AMD EPYC (Milan) ACU (compute units) 230
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 32
Networking Value Network 5 Gbps Accelerated networking No Max network interfaces 4
Storage Value Storage 300 GiB temp SSD Temp disk 300 GiB Max data disks 16 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 12,800 Max disk throughput (uncached) 192 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk Yes
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_DC8ads_v5 Family DCadsv5 Category General purpose VM generations V1, V2 Encryption at host Yes Confidential computing SNP
Other Value Series dcadsv5-series Specs source Azure Resource SKUs API
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Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes .