Standard_L32s

Standard_L32s is an Azure VM size with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB memory. In Australia East it costs $2.992 per hour on demand ($2,184.16 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.5532 per hour. It is sold in 13 regions; the cheapest is West US 2 at $2.496 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
West US 2 westus2	$2.496	$0.4613	$1.722	$1.173
East US 2 eastus2	$2.746	$0.9435	$1.895	$1.291
Canada Central canadacentral	$2.752	$0.7585	$2.091	$1.514
Canada East canadaeast	$2.752	$0.5086	$2.091	$1.514
West US westus	$2.752	$0.5086	$1.899	$1.293
UK South uksouth	$2.895	$0.535	$2.20	$1.592
Japan East japaneast	$2.928	$0.5411	$2.225	$1.61
West Europe westeurope	$2.976	$0.55	$2.262	$1.637
Australia East australiaeast	$2.992	$0.5532	$2.274	$1.646
Southeast Asia southeastasia	$2.992	$0.5529	$2.274	$1.646
US Gov Arizona usgovarizona	$3.008	$0.5559	–	–
US Gov Texas usgovtexas	$3.008	$0.5559	–	–
US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia	$3.008	$0.5559	–	–

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

Prices by operating system in Australia East

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$2.992	–	–
Windows	$4.464	–	–

Specs

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

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	256

Networking	Value
Accelerated networking	No
Max network interfaces	8

Storage	Value
Temp disk	5,630 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_L32s
Family	Ls
VM generations	V1, V2
Encryption at host	Yes
Retirement date	2028-05-01

Other	Value
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

Compare Standard_L32s

Other generations

vs Standard_L32s_v2

Other Ls sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
Standard_L4s	4	32	$0.374
Standard_L8s	8	64	$0.748
Standard_L16s	16	128	$1.496
Standard_L32s	32	256	$2.992

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