Instances Azure VM Standard_FX48mds Standard_FX48mds
Standard_FX48mds is an Azure VM size with 48 vCPUs, 1008 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Gold 6246R (Cascade Lake)). In East US it costs $4.464 per hour on demand ($3,258.72 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $2.634 per hour, 41% less. Spot capacity is about $0.8249 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 $4.464 $0.8249 $2.634 $1.607 $3.08 $2.098 East US 2 eastus2 $4.464 $0.8249 $2.634 $1.607 $3.08 $2.098 West US 2 westus2 $4.464 $0.8249 $2.634 $1.607 $3.08 $2.098 Canada Central canadacentral $4.608 $0.8516 $2.719 $1.751 $3.41 $2.396 Canada East canadaeast $4.608 $0.8516 $2.719 $1.751 $3.41 $2.396 Central India centralindia $4.704 $0.8693 $2.775 $1.694 $3.199 $2.023 North Europe northeurope $4.992 $0.9225 $2.945 $1.847 $3.445 $2.196 West US 3 westus3 $5.064 $0.9358 $2.988 $1.823 $3.434 $2.179 UK South uksouth $5.28 $0.9757 $3.115 $1.954 $3.59 $2.323 South Central US southcentralus $5.357 $0.99 $3.16 $1.929 $3.696 $2.518 Germany West Central germanywestcentral $5.40 $0.9979 $3.186 $1.998 $3.726 $2.376 Korea Central koreacentral $5.40 $0.9979 $3.186 $1.944 $4.104 $2.97 West Europe westeurope $5.40 $0.9979 $3.186 $1.944 $4.104 $2.97 Australia East australiaeast $5.424 $1.002 $3.20 $1.953 $3.688 $2.332 Southeast Asia southeastasia $5.424 $1.002 $3.20 $2.061 $3.688 $2.495 Japan East japaneast $5.448 $1.007 $3.214 $1.961 $4.141 $2.996 US Gov Arizona usgovarizona $5.58 $1.031 $3.292 $2.009 – – US Gov Texas usgovtexas $5.58 $1.031 $3.292 $2.009 – – US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia $5.58 $1.031 $3.292 $2.009 – – Brazil South brazilsouth $6.672 $1.233 $3.937 $2.535 $4.937 $3.403 Brazil Southeast brazilsoutheast $8.674 $1.603 $5.117 $3.296 $6.419 $4.424
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $4.464 $2.634 $1.607 Windows $6.672 $4.842 $3.815
Compute Value vCPUs 48 Physical cores 24 Threads per core 2 Architecture x86_64 Processor Intel Xeon Gold 6246R (Cascade Lake) ACU (compute units) 310
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 1008
Networking Value Network 32 Gbps Accelerated networking Yes Max network interfaces 8
Storage Value Storage 2016 GiB temp SSD Temp disk 2,016 GiB Max data disks 32 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 80,000 Max disk throughput (uncached) 1,258 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk Yes
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_FX48mds 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 .