Standard_GS3

Standard_GS3 is an Azure VM size with 8 vCPUs, 112 GiB memory. In Australia East it costs $2.552 per hour on demand ($1,862.96 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.4719 per hour. It is sold in 13 regions; the cheapest is UK South at $1.757 per hour.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
UK South uksouth	$1.757	$0.3247	$1.335	$0.9664
Canada Central canadacentral	$1.936	$0.5336	$1.471	$1.065
Canada East canadaeast	$1.936	$0.3578	$1.471	$1.065
West US 2 westus2	$1.961	$0.3624	$1.353	$0.9217
East US 2 eastus2	$2.20	$0.7559	$1.518	$1.034
US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia	$2.20	$0.4066	–	–
Japan East japaneast	$2.302	$0.4254	$1.75	$1.266
West US westus	$2.44	$0.4509	$1.684	$1.147
Australia East australiaeast	$2.552	$0.4719	$1.94	$1.404
Southeast Asia southeastasia	$2.64	$0.4879	$2.006	$1.452
US Gov Arizona usgovarizona	$2.75	$0.5082	–	–
US Gov Texas usgovtexas	$2.75	$0.5082	–	–
West Europe westeurope	$2.80	$0.5174	$2.128	$1.54

Reserved and Savings Plans Spot prices by region Windows prices by region

Prices by operating system in Australia East

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$2.552	–	–
Windows	$2.83	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	8
Physical cores	8
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
ACU (compute units)	180

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	112

Networking	Value
Accelerated networking	No
Max network interfaces	4

Storage	Value
Temp disk	224 GiB
Max data disks	32
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	20,000
Max disk throughput (uncached)	500 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	Yes

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_GS3
Family	GS
VM generations	V1, V2
Encryption at host	Yes
Retirement date	2028-11-15

Other	Value
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

Other GS sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
Standard_GS1	2	28	$0.638
Standard_GS2	4	56	$1.276
Standard_GS4-4	4	224	$5.104
Standard_GS3	8	112	$2.552
Standard_GS4-8	8	224	$5.104
Standard_GS5-8	8	448	$10.208
Standard_GS4	16	224	$5.104
Standard_GS5-16	16	448	$10.208
Standard_GS5	32	448	$10.208

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes.