Standard_DC8eds_v6

Standard_DC8eds_v6 is an Azure VM size with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)). In East US it costs $0.548 per hour on demand ($400.04 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.4385 per hour, 20% less. Spot capacity is about $0.1013 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	$0.548	$0.1013	$0.4385	$0.3289	$0.4658	$0.3562
West US 3 westus3	$0.548	$0.1013	$0.4385	$0.3289	$0.4658	$0.3562
West US westus	$0.64	$0.1183	$0.5116	$0.3838	$0.544	$0.416
West Europe westeurope	$0.657	$0.1214	$0.5253	$0.394	$0.5585	$0.4271

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	$0.548	$0.4385	$0.3289
Windows	$0.916	$0.8065	$0.6969

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	8
Physical cores	4
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	32

Networking	Value
Network	7 Gbps
Accelerated networking	Yes
Max network interfaces	4

Storage	Value
Storage	440 GiB temp NVMe SSD
Local NVMe	440 GiB
Max data disks	24
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	12,800
Max disk throughput (uncached)	424 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	Yes

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_DC8eds_v6
Family	DCedsv6
Category	General purpose
VM generations	V2
Encryption at host	Yes
Confidential computing	TDX

Other	Value
Series	dcedsv6-series
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

Compare Standard_DC8eds_v6

Other generations

vs Standard_DC8eds_v5

Other DCedsv6 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
Standard_DC2eds_v6	2	8	$0.137
Standard_DC4eds_v6	4	16	$0.274
Standard_DC8eds_v6	8	32	$0.548
Standard_DC16eds_v6	16	64	$1.096
Standard_DC32eds_v6	32	128	$2.193
Standard_DC48eds_v6	48	192	$3.289
Standard_DC64eds_v6	64	256	$4.385
Standard_DC96eds_v6	96	384	$6.578
Standard_DC128eds_v6	128	512	$8.77

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