Standard_GS5

Standard_GS5 is an Azure VM size with 32 vCPUs, 448 GiB memory. In Australia East it costs $10.208 per hour on demand ($7,451.84 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $1.887 per hour. It is sold in 13 regions; the cheapest is UK South at $7.027 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	$7.027	$1.299	$5.34	$3.865
Canada Central canadacentral	$7.744	$2.134	$5.885	$4.259
Canada East canadaeast	$7.744	$1.431	$5.885	$4.259
East US 2 eastus2	$7.82	$2.687	$5.396	$3.675
West US 2 westus2	$7.82	$1.445	$5.396	$3.675
West US westus	$8.69	$1.606	$5.996	$4.084
US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia	$8.80	$1.626	–	–
Japan East japaneast	$9.205	$1.701	$6.996	$5.063
Southeast Asia southeastasia	$9.39	$1.735	$7.136	$5.165
US Gov Arizona usgovarizona	$9.775	$1.806	–	–
US Gov Texas usgovtexas	$9.775	$1.806	–	–
West Europe westeurope	$9.99	$1.846	$7.592	$5.495
Australia East australiaeast	$10.208	$1.887	$7.758	$5.614

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	$10.208	–	–
Windows	$11.322	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	32
Physical cores	32
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
ACU (compute units)	180

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	448

Networking	Value
Accelerated networking	No
Max network interfaces	8

Storage	Value
Temp disk	896 GiB
Max data disks	64
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	80,000
Max disk throughput (uncached)	2,000 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	Yes

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_GS5
Family	GS
VM generations	V1, V2
Encryption at host	Yes
Retirement date	2028-05-01

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.