Instances Azure VM Standard_FX12mds Standard_FX12mds
Standard_FX12mds is an Azure VM size with 12 vCPUs, 252 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Gold 6246R (Cascade Lake)). In East US it costs $1.116 per hour on demand ($814.68 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.6584 per hour, 41% less. Spot capacity is about $0.2062 per hour. It is sold in 21 regions.
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 $1.116 $0.2062 $0.6584 $0.4018 $0.77 $0.5245 East US 2 eastus2 $1.116 $0.2062 $0.6584 $0.4018 $0.77 $0.5245 West US 2 westus2 $1.116 $0.2062 $0.6584 $0.4018 $0.77 $0.5245 Canada Central canadacentral $1.152 $0.2129 $0.6797 $0.4377 $0.8525 $0.599 Canada East canadaeast $1.152 $0.2129 $0.6797 $0.4377 $0.8525 $0.599 Central India centralindia $1.176 $0.2173 $0.6938 $0.4234 $0.7997 $0.5057 North Europe northeurope $1.248 $0.2306 $0.7363 $0.4618 $0.8611 $0.5491 West US 3 westus3 $1.266 $0.234 $0.7469 $0.4557 $0.8586 $0.5446 UK South uksouth $1.32 $0.2439 $0.7788 $0.4884 $0.8976 $0.5808 South Central US southcentralus $1.339 $0.2474 $0.7902 $0.4821 $0.9239 $0.6293 Germany West Central germanywestcentral $1.35 $0.2495 $0.7965 $0.4995 $0.9315 $0.594 Korea Central koreacentral $1.35 $0.2495 $0.7965 $0.486 $1.026 $0.7425 West Europe westeurope $1.35 $0.2495 $0.7965 $0.486 $1.026 $0.7425 Australia East australiaeast $1.356 $0.2506 $0.8 $0.4882 $0.9221 $0.5831 Southeast Asia southeastasia $1.356 $0.2506 $0.8 $0.5153 $0.9221 $0.6238 Japan East japaneast $1.362 $0.2517 $0.8035 $0.4903 $1.035 $0.7491 US Gov Arizona usgovarizona $1.395 $0.2578 $0.8231 $0.5022 – – US Gov Texas usgovtexas $1.395 $0.2578 $0.8231 $0.5022 – – US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia $1.395 $0.2578 $0.8231 $0.5022 – – Brazil South brazilsouth $1.668 $0.3082 $0.9841 $0.6338 $1.234 $0.8507 Brazil Southeast brazilsoutheast $2.168 $0.4006 $1.279 $0.824 $1.604 $1.106
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $1.116 $0.6584 $0.4018 Windows $1.668 $1.21 $0.9538
Compute Value vCPUs 12 Physical cores 6 Threads per core 2 Architecture x86_64 Processor Intel Xeon Gold 6246R (Cascade Lake) ACU (compute units) 310
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 252
Networking Value Network 8 Gbps Accelerated networking Yes Max network interfaces 4
Storage Value Storage 504 GiB temp SSD Temp disk 504 GiB Max data disks 24 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 20,000 Max disk throughput (uncached) 315 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk Yes
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_FX12mds Family FXmds Category Compute optimized VM generations V2 Encryption at host Yes
Other Value Series fx-series Specs source Azure Resource SKUs API
Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes .