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DC16as_v6

The 'DC' series family are one of Azure's security focused general purpose VM instances.

The DC16as_v6 is a azure vm instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for vm workloads.

Last updated at Tue Apr 28 2026
Instance Info
Compute Value
vCPUs 16
Memory (GB) 64
CPU Architecture x64
Capacity Support False, True
VM Generations V2
VM Deployment Types IaaS
Network Value
Accelerated Networking False
Storage Value
Local Temp Storage (MB) 0
Cache/Temp Storage Throughput (IOPS) 72000
Cache/Temp Storage Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s) 1000000000
Uncached Disk Throughput (IOPS) 30400
Uncached Disk Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s) 720000000
Premium I/O True
Encryption True
Memory Maintenance True
Family Instances
Instance vCPUs Memory
DC2as_v6 2 8
DC4as_v6 4 16
DC8as_v6 8 32
DC16as_v6 16 64
DC32as_v6 32 128
DC48as_v6 48 192
DC64as_v6 64 256
DC96as_v6 96 384
Related Instances
Instance vCPUs Memory
B16s_v2 16 64
D16ads_v5 16 64
B16ps_v2 16 64
B16as_v2 16 64
B16ms 16 64
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