Instances Azure VM Standard_M12s_v3 Standard_M12s_v3
Standard_M12s_v3 is an Azure VM size with 12 vCPUs, 240 GiB memory (Intel Xeon 4th Gen Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)). In East US it costs $1.54 per hour on demand ($1,124.20 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.8957 per hour, 42% less. Spot capacity is about $0.2846 per hour. It is sold in 33 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 $1.54 $0.2846 $0.8957 $0.4324 $1.062 $0.5388 East US 2 eastus2 $1.54 $0.2846 $0.8957 $0.4324 $1.062 $0.5388 North Central US northcentralus $1.54 $0.2846 $0.8934 $0.4313 $1.062 $0.5388 West US 2 westus2 $1.54 $0.2846 $0.8957 $0.4324 $1.062 $0.5388 West US 3 westus3 $1.54 $0.2846 $0.89 $0.43 $1.062 $0.5388 Central India centralindia $1.58 $0.292 $0.9217 $0.445 $1.09 $0.5528 India South Central indiasouthcentral $1.58 $0.292 $0.9189 $0.4437 $1.09 $0.5528 Jio India West jioindiawest $1.58 – – – $1.09 $0.5528 Canada Central canadacentral $1.694 $0.3131 $0.9852 $0.4756 $1.169 $0.5927 Central US centralus $1.74 $0.3216 $0.8957 $0.4324 $1.20 $0.6088 Indonesia Central indonesiacentral $1.80 $0.3326 $1.045 $0.5046 $1.242 $0.6298 Malaysia West malaysiawest $1.802 $0.333 $1.048 $0.5059 $1.243 $0.6304 North Europe northeurope $1.84 $0.34 $1.07 $0.5167 $1.269 $0.6438 South Central US southcentralus $1.84 $0.34 $1.072 $0.5176 $1.269 $0.6438 Australia East australiaeast $1.84 $0.3401 $1.07 $0.5167 $1.27 $0.6439 US Gov Arizona usgovarizona $1.848 $0.3415 $1.075 $0.5189 – – US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia $1.848 $0.3415 $1.075 $0.5189 – – New Zealand North newzealandnorth $1.932 $0.3571 $1.124 $0.5425 $1.333 $0.6761 UK South uksouth $1.94 $0.3585 $1.126 $0.5435 $1.338 $0.6788 Southeast Asia southeastasia $2.00 $0.3696 $1.161 $0.5607 $1.38 $0.6998 Taiwan North taiwannorth $2.00 $0.3696 $1.161 $0.5607 $1.38 $0.6998 West US westus $2.002 $0.37 $1.164 $0.5621 $1.381 $0.7005 UAE North uaenorth $2.03 $0.3751 $1.18 $0.57 $1.401 $0.7103 Germany West Central germanywestcentral $2.15 $0.3973 $1.251 $0.6038 $1.483 $0.7523 Sweden Central swedencentral $2.15 $0.3973 $1.251 $0.6038 $1.483 $0.7523 West Europe westeurope $2.15 $0.3973 $1.25 $0.6037 $1.483 $0.7523 Korea Central koreacentral $2.227 $0.4116 $1.295 $0.6254 $1.536 $0.7793 Japan East japaneast $2.233 $0.4127 $1.299 $0.627 $1.54 $0.7813 Japan West japanwest $2.233 $0.4127 $1.299 $0.627 $1.54 $0.7813 South India southindia $2.32 $0.4287 $1.349 $0.6513 $1.601 $0.8118 Switzerland North switzerlandnorth $2.37 $0.438 $1.376 $0.6643 $1.635 $0.8293 East Asia eastasia $2.381 $0.44 $1.385 $0.6685 $1.643 $0.833 Brazil South brazilsouth $3.003 $0.555 $1.747 $0.8433 $2.072 $1.051
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $1.54 $0.8957 $0.4324 Windows $2.09 $1.446 $0.9824
Compute Value vCPUs 12 Physical cores 6 Threads per core 2 Architecture x86_64 Processor Intel Xeon 4th Gen Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 240
Networking Value Network 4 Gbps Accelerated networking Yes Max network interfaces 4
Storage Value Max data disks 64 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 16,250 Max disk throughput (uncached) 390 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk No
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_M12s_v3 Family Msv3 Category Memory optimized VM generations V2 Encryption at host Yes
Other Value Series msv3-mm-series Specs source Azure Resource SKUs API
Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes .