Standard_EC32es_v6

Standard_EC32es_v6 is an Azure VM size with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)). In East US it costs $2.328 per hour on demand ($1,699.44 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $1.863 per hour, 20% less. Spot capacity is about $0.4302 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	$2.328	$0.4302	$1.863	$1.397	$1.979	$1.513
West US 3 westus3	$2.328	$0.4302	$1.863	$1.397	$1.979	$1.513
West US westus	$2.587	$0.4781	$2.07	$1.552	$2.199	$1.682
West Europe westeurope	$2.809	$0.5191	$2.247	$1.685	$2.388	$1.826

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	$2.328	$1.863	$1.397
Windows	$3.80	$3.335	$2.869

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	32
Physical cores	16
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	256

Networking	Value
Network	9 Gbps
Accelerated networking	Yes
Max network interfaces	8

Storage	Value
Max data disks	64
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	51,200
Max disk throughput (uncached)	1,696 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	No

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_EC32es_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_EC32es_v6

Other generations

vs Standard_EC32es_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.