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HC44-32rs

The 'HC' family of VM size series are one of Azure's high-performance computing (HPC) optimized VM instances.

The HC44-32rs is a azure vm instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for vm workloads.

Last updated at Sun May 24 2026

Instance Info

Compute	Value
vCPUs	32, 44
Memory (GB)	352
CPU Architecture	x64
Capacity Support	False
VM Generations	V1,V2
VM Deployment Types	IaaS
Network	Value
Accelerated Networking	True
Storage	Value
Local Temp Storage (MB)	716800
Cache/Temp Storage Throughput (IOPS)	1020
Cache/Temp Storage Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s)	20971520
Uncached Disk Throughput (IOPS)	80000
Uncached Disk Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s)	2000000000
Premium I/O	True
Ultra Disks Supported	False, True
Encryption	True
Memory Maintenance	False

Family Instances

Instance	vCPUs	Memory
HC44-32rs	32	352
HC44-16rs	44	352
HC44rs	44	352

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Instance	vCPUs	Memory
E48ads_v6	48	384
E48ads_v5	48	384
E48as_v4	48	384
DC48s_v3	48	384
DC48ds_v3	48	384

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