Standard_ND40rs_v2

Standard_ND40rs_v2 is an Azure VM size with 40 vCPUs, 672 GiB memory, 8 GPUs (Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 (Skylake)). In East US it costs $22.032 per hour on demand ($16,083.36 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $10.796 per hour, 51% less. Spot capacity is about $4.072 per hour. It is sold in 8 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	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
East US eastus	$22.032	$4.072	$10.796	$18.339	$13.591
West US 2 westus2	$22.032	$4.072	$10.796	$18.339	$13.591
Sweden Central swedencentral	$23.872	$4.412	–	–	–
South Central US southcentralus	$26.438	$4.886	$12.955	$22.007	$16.31
West Europe westeurope	$27.526	$5.087	$13.488	$22.913	$16.981
US Gov Arizona usgovarizona	$27.54	$5.089	–	–	–
US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia	$27.54	$5.089	–	–	–
Southeast Asia southeastasia	$30.492	$5.635	$14.941	$25.381	$18.811

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	$22.032	$10.796	–
Windows	$23.872	$12.636	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	40
Physical cores	40
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 (Skylake)

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	672

Accelerators	Value
GPUs	8

Networking	Value
Network	24 Gbps
Accelerated networking	Yes
RDMA (InfiniBand)	Yes
Max network interfaces	8

Storage	Value
Storage	2948 GiB temp SSD
Temp disk	2,900 GiB
Max data disks	8
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	80,000
Max disk throughput (uncached)	1,200 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	Yes

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_ND40rs_v2
Family	NDrsv2
Category	GPU accelerated
VM generations	V2
Encryption at host	Yes

Other	Value
Series	ndv2-series
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

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