Instances Azure VM Standard_EC16ads_v5 Standard_EC16ads_v5
Standard_EC16ads_v5 is an Azure VM size with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB memory (AMD EPYC (Milan)). In East US it costs $1.048 per hour on demand ($765.04 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.8384 per hour, 20% less. Spot capacity is about $0.2212 per hour. It is sold in 18 regions; the cheapest is Central India at $0.664 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 $0.664 $0.1227 $0.5315 $0.3986 $0.5592 $0.436 Jio India Central jioindiacentral $0.664 – – – – – Jio India West jioindiawest $0.664 – – – – – East US eastus $1.048 $0.2212 $0.8384 $0.6288 $0.884 $0.688 East US 2 eastus2 $1.048 $0.1937 $0.8384 $0.6288 $0.884 $0.688 North Europe northeurope $1.168 $0.2158 $0.9344 $0.7008 $0.9903 $0.8048 Central US centralus $1.184 $0.2186 $0.8384 $0.6288 $0.8833 $0.6867 Germany West Central germanywestcentral $1.184 $0.2188 $0.9471 $0.7104 $1.001 $0.7853 Italy North italynorth $1.184 $0.2188 $0.9471 $0.7104 $1.004 $0.8158 West Europe westeurope $1.184 $0.2188 $0.9471 $0.7104 $1.004 $0.8158 West US westus $1.184 $0.2188 $0.9471 $0.7104 $1.003 $0.7827 Indonesia Central indonesiacentral $1.226 $0.2266 $0.9805 $0.7354 $1.03 $0.8073 UK South uksouth $1.232 $0.2277 $0.9856 $0.7392 $1.041 $0.8434 Japan East japaneast $1.272 $0.2351 $1.018 $0.7632 $1.077 $0.8763 Southeast Asia southeastasia $1.272 $0.2351 $1.018 $0.7632 $1.069 $0.8351 UAE North uaenorth $1.287 $0.2378 $1.03 $0.7723 $1.091 $0.8867 East Asia eastasia $1.388 $0.2565 $1.11 $0.8328 $1.177 $0.9563 Switzerland North switzerlandnorth $1.499 $0.277 $1.199 $0.8992 $1.271 $1.033
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $1.048 $0.8384 $0.6288 Windows $1.784 $1.574 $1.365
Compute Value vCPUs 16 Physical cores 8 Threads per core 2 Architecture x86_64 Processor AMD EPYC (Milan) ACU (compute units) 230
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 128
Networking Value Network 10 Gbps Accelerated networking No Max network interfaces 4
Storage Value Storage 600 GiB temp SSD Temp disk 600 GiB Max data disks 32 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 25,600 Max disk throughput (uncached) 384 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk Yes
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_EC16ads_v5 Family ECadsv5 Category Memory optimized VM generations V1, V2 Encryption at host Yes Confidential computing SNP
Other Value Series ecasv5-ecadsv5-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 .