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M8ms

The 'M' family of VM size series are one of Azure's ultra memory-optimized VM instances designed for extremely memory-intensive workloads, such as large in-memory databases, data warehousing, and high-performance computing (HPC).

The M8ms is a azure vm instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for vm workloads.

Last updated at Tue May 05 2026

Instance Info

Compute	Value
vCPUs	8
Memory (GB)	218.75
CPU Architecture	x64
Capacity Support	False, True
VM Generations	V1,V2
VM Deployment Types	IaaS
Network	Value
Accelerated Networking	True
Storage	Value
Local Temp Storage (MB)	262144
Cache/Temp Storage Throughput (IOPS)	10000
Cache/Temp Storage Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s)	100000000
Uncached Disk Throughput (IOPS)	5000
Uncached Disk Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s)	125000000
Premium I/O	True
Encryption	True
Memory Maintenance	False

Family Instances

Instance	vCPUs	Memory
M8-2ms	8	218
M8-4ms	8	218
M8ms	8	218
M16-4ms	16	437
M16-8ms	16	437
M16ms	16	437
M32ts	32	192
M32ls	32	256
M32-16ms	32	875
M32-8ms	32	875
M32ms	32	875
M64ls	64	512
M64	64	1024
M64s	64	1024
M64-16ms	64	1792
M64-32ms	64	1792
M64m	64	1792
M64ms	64	1792
M128	128	2048
M128s	128	2048
M128-32ms	128	3892
M128-64ms	128	3892
M128m	128	3892
M128ms	128	3892

Related Instances

Instance	vCPUs	Memory
FX8-2mds_v2	8	168
FX8-4mds_v2	8	168
FX8-2ms_v2	8	168
FX8-4ms_v2	8	168
FX8mds_v2	8	168

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