Instances Azure VM Standard_L16aos_v5 Standard_L16aos_v5
Standard_L16aos_v5 is an Azure VM size with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB memory (AMD EPYC 9005 (Turin)). In East US it costs $2.438 per hour on demand ($1,779.74 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $1.439 per hour, 41% less. Spot capacity is about $0.4876 per hour. It is sold in 6 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 $2.438 $0.4876 $1.439 $0.9266 $1.682 $1.121 East US 2 eastus2 $2.438 $0.4505 $1.439 $0.9266 $1.682 $1.121 West US 3 westus3 $2.438 $0.4505 $1.439 $0.9266 $1.682 $1.121 South Central US southcentralus $2.926 $0.5407 $1.726 $1.112 $2.019 $1.346 UK South uksouth $3.048 $0.5633 $1.798 $1.158 $2.164 $1.433 North Europe northeurope $3.487 $0.6444 $2.057 $1.325 $2.476 $1.674
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $2.438 $1.439 $0.9266 Windows $3.174 $2.175 $1.663
Compute Value vCPUs 16 Physical cores 8 Threads per core 2 Architecture x86_64 Processor AMD EPYC 9005 (Turin)
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 128
Networking Value Network 25 Gbps Accelerated networking Yes Max network interfaces 8
Storage Value Storage 11520 GiB temp NVMe SSD Local NVMe 10,728 GiB Max data disks 48 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 35,200 Max disk throughput (uncached) 1,200 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk Yes
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_L16aos_v5 Family Laosv5 Category Storage optimized VM generations V2 Encryption at host Yes
Other Value Series laosv5-series Specs source Azure Resource SKUs API
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Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes .