Standard_GS4-8

Standard_GS4-8 is an Azure VM size with 8 vCPUs, 224 GiB memory. In Australia East it costs $5.104 per hour on demand ($3,725.92 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.9437 per hour. It is sold in 13 regions; the cheapest is UK South at $3.514 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	$3.514	$0.6494	$2.671	$1.933
Canada Central canadacentral	$3.872	$1.067	$2.943	$2.13
Canada East canadaeast	$3.872	$0.7155	$2.943	$2.13
West US 2 westus2	$3.922	$0.7248	$2.706	$1.843
East US 2 eastus2	$4.40	$1.512	$3.036	$2.068
US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia	$4.40	$0.8131	–	–
Japan East japaneast	$4.602	$0.8505	$3.498	$2.531
West US westus	$4.88	$0.9018	$3.367	$2.294
Australia East australiaeast	$5.104	$0.9437	$3.879	$2.807
Southeast Asia southeastasia	$5.28	$0.9757	$4.013	$2.904
US Gov Arizona usgovarizona	$5.50	$1.016	–	–
US Gov Texas usgovtexas	$5.50	$1.016	–	–
West Europe westeurope	$5.60	$1.035	$4.256	$3.08

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	$5.104	–	–
Windows	$5.661	–	–

Specs

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

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	224

Networking	Value
Accelerated networking	No
Max network interfaces	8

Storage	Value
Temp disk	448 GiB
Max data disks	64
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	40,000
Max disk throughput (uncached)	1,000 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	Yes

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_GS4-8
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.