Standard_EC16eds_v6

Standard_EC16eds_v6 is an Azure VM size with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)). In East US it costs $1.439 per hour on demand ($1,050.47 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $1.151 per hour, 20% less. Spot capacity is about $0.2659 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	$1.439	$0.2659	$1.151	$0.8634	$1.223	$0.9354
West US 3 westus3	$1.439	$0.2659	$1.151	$0.8634	$1.223	$0.9354
West US westus	$1.599	$0.2955	$1.279	$0.9593	$1.359	$1.039
West Europe westeurope	$1.736	$0.3208	$1.389	$1.042	$1.476	$1.128

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	$1.439	$1.151	$0.8634
Windows	$2.175	$1.887	$1.599

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	16
Physical cores	8
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	128

Networking	Value
Network	7 Gbps
Accelerated networking	Yes
Max network interfaces	8

Storage	Value
Storage	2 x 440 GiB temp NVMe SSD
Local NVMe	880 GiB
Max data disks	48
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	25,600
Max disk throughput (uncached)	848 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	Yes

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_EC16eds_v6
Family	ECedsv6
Category	Memory optimized
VM generations	V2
Encryption at host	Yes
Confidential computing	TDX

Other	Value
Series	ecedsv6-series
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

Compare Standard_EC16eds_v6

Other generations

vs Standard_EC16eds_v5

Other ECedsv6 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
Standard_EC2eds_v6	2	16	$0.18
Standard_EC4eds_v6	4	32	$0.36
Standard_EC8eds_v6	8	64	$0.719
Standard_EC16eds_v6	16	128	$1.439
Standard_EC32eds_v6	32	256	$2.878
Standard_EC48eds_v6	48	384	$4.317
Standard_EC64eds_v6	64	512	$5.756
Standard_EC128eds_v6	128	–	$11.512

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