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GS3

The GS3 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 8
Memory (GB) 112
CPU Architecture x64
Capacity Support False
VM Generations V1,V2
VM Deployment Types IaaS
Network Value
Accelerated Networking False
Storage Value
Local Temp Storage (MB) 229376
Cache/Temp Storage Throughput (IOPS) 40000
Cache/Temp Storage Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s) 400000000
Uncached Disk Throughput (IOPS) 20000
Uncached Disk Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s) 500000000
Premium I/O True
Encryption True
Memory Maintenance False
Family Instances
Instance vCPUs Memory
GS1 2 28
GS2 4 56
GS3 8 112
GS4 16 224
GS4-4 16 224
GS4-8 16 224
GS5 32 448
GS5-16 32 448
GS5-8 32 448
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Instance vCPUs Memory
G3 8 112
NV6s_v2 6 112
PB6s 6 112
NV12s_v3 12 112
NC6s_v3 6 112
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