Instances Azure VM Standard_EC8ads_v5 Standard_EC8ads_v5
Standard_EC8ads_v5 is an Azure VM size with 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB memory (AMD EPYC (Milan)). In East US it costs $0.524 per hour on demand ($382.52 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.4192 per hour, 20% less. Spot capacity is about $0.1106 per hour. It is sold in 18 regions; the cheapest is Central India at $0.332 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 $0.332 $0.0614 $0.2658 $0.1993 $0.2796 $0.218 Jio India Central jioindiacentral $0.332 – – – – – Jio India West jioindiawest $0.332 – – – – – East US eastus $0.524 $0.1106 $0.4192 $0.3144 $0.442 $0.344 East US 2 eastus2 $0.524 $0.0968 $0.4192 $0.3144 $0.442 $0.344 North Europe northeurope $0.584 $0.1079 $0.4672 $0.3504 $0.4952 $0.4024 Central US centralus $0.592 $0.1093 $0.4192 $0.3144 $0.4416 $0.3434 Germany West Central germanywestcentral $0.592 $0.1094 $0.4736 $0.3552 $0.5003 $0.3927 Italy North italynorth $0.592 $0.1094 $0.4736 $0.3552 $0.502 $0.4079 West Europe westeurope $0.592 $0.1094 $0.4736 $0.3552 $0.502 $0.4079 West US westus $0.592 $0.1094 $0.4736 $0.3552 $0.5013 $0.3914 Indonesia Central indonesiacentral $0.613 $0.1133 $0.4903 $0.3677 $0.5151 $0.4037 UK South uksouth $0.616 $0.1138 $0.4928 $0.3696 $0.5206 $0.4217 Japan East japaneast $0.636 $0.1175 $0.5088 $0.3816 $0.5383 $0.4381 Southeast Asia southeastasia $0.636 $0.1175 $0.5088 $0.3816 $0.5346 $0.4175 UAE North uaenorth $0.644 $0.119 $0.5148 $0.3861 $0.546 $0.4437 East Asia eastasia $0.694 $0.1283 $0.5553 $0.4164 $0.5884 $0.4782 Switzerland North switzerlandnorth $0.749 $0.1384 $0.5994 $0.4496 $0.6351 $0.5161
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $0.524 $0.4192 $0.3144 Windows $0.892 $0.7872 $0.6824
Compute Value vCPUs 8 Physical cores 4 Threads per core 2 Architecture x86_64 Processor AMD EPYC (Milan) ACU (compute units) 230
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 64
Networking Value Network 5 Gbps Accelerated networking No Max network interfaces 4
Storage Value Storage 300 GiB temp SSD Temp disk 300 GiB Max data disks 16 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 12,800 Max disk throughput (uncached) 192 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk Yes
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_EC8ads_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 .