Standard_DC8es_v6

Standard_DC8es_v6 is an Azure VM size with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)). In East US it costs $0.444 per hour on demand ($324.12 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.3548 per hour, 20% less. Spot capacity is about $0.0821 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	$0.444	$0.0821	$0.3548	$0.2661	$0.3774	$0.2886
West US 3 westus3	$0.444	$0.0821	$0.3548	$0.2661	$0.3774	$0.2886
West US westus	$0.517	$0.0955	$0.4139	$0.3105	$0.4395	$0.3361
West Europe westeurope	$0.531	$0.0981	$0.4251	$0.3188	$0.4514	$0.3452

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	$0.444	$0.3548	$0.2661
Windows	$0.812	$0.7228	$0.6341

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
Max data disks	24
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	12,800
Max disk throughput (uncached)	424 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	No

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_DC8es_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_DC8es_v6

Other generations

vs Standard_DC8es_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.