Standard_HC44rs

Standard_HC44rs is an Azure VM size with 44 vCPUs, 352 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 (Skylake)). In East US it costs $3.168 per hour on demand ($2,312.64 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.5854 per hour. It is sold in 15 regions.

Prices by region

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	$3.168	$0.5854	–	–	$2.744	$2.44
East US 2 eastus2	$3.168	$0.5854	–	–	$2.744	$2.44
West US 2 westus2	$3.168	$0.5854	–	–	$2.744	$2.44
South Central US southcentralus	$3.484	$1.742	–	–	$3.017	$2.683
Canada Central canadacentral	$3.802	$0.7026	$3.231	$2.661	$3.292	$2.928
North Europe northeurope	$3.802	$0.7026	–	–	$3.292	$2.928
UK South uksouth	$3.96	$0.7318	$3.366	$2.772	$3.429	$3.05
US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia	$3.96	$0.7318	–	–	–	–
Southeast Asia southeastasia	$4.118	$0.761	–	–	$3.566	$3.171
West Europe westeurope	$4.118	$0.761	–	–	$3.566	$3.171
Korea Central koreacentral	$4.277	$0.7904	–	–	$3.704	$3.294
Central India centralindia	$4.435	$0.8196	–	–	$3.841	$3.415
Australia East australiaeast	$4.594	$0.849	–	–	$3.978	$3.538
Japan East japaneast	$4.594	$0.849	–	–	$3.978	$3.538
Brazil South brazilsouth	$6.336	$1.171	–	–	$5.487	$4.885

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

Prices by operating system in East US

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$3.168	–	–
Windows	$5.192	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	44
Physical cores	44
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 (Skylake)

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	352

Networking	Value
Network	40 Gbps
Accelerated networking	Yes
RDMA (InfiniBand)	Yes
Max network interfaces	8

Storage	Value
Storage	700 GiB temp SSD
Temp disk	700 GiB
Max data disks	4
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_HC44rs
Family	HCrs
Category	High performance compute
VM generations	V1, V2
Encryption at host	Yes

Other	Value
Series	hc-series
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

Other HCrs sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
Standard_HC44-16rs	16	352	$3.168
Standard_HC44-32rs	32	352	$3.168
Standard_HC44rs	44	352	$3.168

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