Instances Azure VM Standard_FX36mds Standard_FX36mds
Standard_FX36mds is an Azure VM size with 36 vCPUs, 756 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Gold 6246R (Cascade Lake)). In East US it costs $3.348 per hour on demand ($2,444.04 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $1.975 per hour, 41% less. Spot capacity is about $0.6187 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 $3.348 $0.6187 $1.975 $1.205 $2.31 $1.574 East US 2 eastus2 $3.348 $0.6187 $1.975 $1.205 $2.31 $1.574 West US 2 westus2 $3.348 $0.6187 $1.975 $1.205 $2.31 $1.574 Canada Central canadacentral $3.456 $0.6387 $2.039 $1.313 $2.557 $1.797 Canada East canadaeast $3.456 $0.6387 $2.039 $1.313 $2.557 $1.797 Central India centralindia $3.528 $0.652 $2.082 $1.27 $2.399 $1.517 North Europe northeurope $3.744 $0.6919 $2.209 $1.385 $2.583 $1.647 West US 3 westus3 $3.798 $0.7019 $2.241 $1.367 $2.576 $1.634 UK South uksouth $3.96 $0.7318 $2.336 $1.465 $2.693 $1.742 South Central US southcentralus $4.018 $0.7425 $2.37 $1.446 $2.772 $1.889 Germany West Central germanywestcentral $4.05 $0.7484 $2.389 $1.498 $2.795 $1.782 Korea Central koreacentral $4.05 $0.7484 $2.389 $1.458 $3.078 $2.228 West Europe westeurope $4.05 $0.7484 $2.389 $1.458 $3.078 $2.228 Australia East australiaeast $4.068 $0.7518 $2.40 $1.464 $2.766 $1.749 Southeast Asia southeastasia $4.068 $0.7518 $2.40 $1.546 $2.766 $1.871 Japan East japaneast $4.086 $0.7551 $2.411 $1.471 $3.105 $2.247 US Gov Arizona usgovarizona $4.185 $0.7734 $2.469 $1.507 – – US Gov Texas usgovtexas $4.185 $0.7734 $2.469 $1.507 – – US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia $4.185 $0.7734 $2.469 $1.507 – – Brazil South brazilsouth $5.004 $0.9247 $2.952 $1.901 $3.703 $2.552 Brazil Southeast brazilsoutheast $6.505 $1.202 $3.838 $2.472 $4.814 $3.318
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $3.348 $1.975 $1.205 Windows $5.004 $3.631 $2.861
Compute Value vCPUs 36 Physical cores 18 Threads per core 2 Architecture x86_64 Processor Intel Xeon Gold 6246R (Cascade Lake) ACU (compute units) 310
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 756
Networking Value Network 24 Gbps Accelerated networking Yes Max network interfaces 8
Storage Value Storage 1512 GiB temp SSD Temp disk 1,512 GiB Max data disks 32 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 60,000 Max disk throughput (uncached) 944 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk Yes
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_FX36mds 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 .