Standard_EC16es_v6

Standard_EC16es_v6 is an Azure VM size with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)). In East US it costs $1.164 per hour on demand ($849.72 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.9314 per hour, 20% less. Spot capacity is about $0.2151 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	$1.164	$0.2151	$0.9314	$0.6986	$0.9894	$0.7566
West US 3 westus3	$1.164	$0.2151	$0.9314	$0.6986	$0.9894	$0.7566
West US westus	$1.294	$0.2391	$1.035	$0.7761	$1.10	$0.8411
West Europe westeurope	$1.404	$0.2595	$1.124	$0.8427	$1.193	$0.9126

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	$1.164	$0.9314	$0.6986
Windows	$1.90	$1.667	$1.435

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
Max data disks	48
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	25,600
Max disk throughput (uncached)	848 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	No

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_EC16es_v6
Family	ECesv6
Category	Memory optimized
VM generations	V2
Encryption at host	Yes
Confidential computing	TDX

Other	Value
Series	ecesv6-series
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

Compare Standard_EC16es_v6

Other generations

vs Standard_EC16es_v5

Other ECesv6 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
Standard_EC2es_v6	2	16	$0.146
Standard_EC4es_v6	4	32	$0.291
Standard_EC8es_v6	8	64	$0.582
Standard_EC16es_v6	16	128	$1.164
Standard_EC32es_v6	32	256	$2.328
Standard_EC48es_v6	48	384	$3.493
Standard_EC64es_v6	64	512	$4.657
Standard_EC128es_v6	128	–	$9.314

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