NP40s
The 'NP' subfamily of VM size series are one of Azure's storage-optimized VM instances.
The NP40s 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 | 40 |
| Memory (GB) | 672 |
| CPU Architecture | x64 |
| Capacity Support | False |
| VM Generations | V1,V2 |
| VM Deployment Types | IaaS |
| GPUs | 4 |
| Network | Value |
| Accelerated Networking | True |
| Storage | Value |
| Local Temp Storage (MB) | 3018752 |
| Uncached Disk Throughput (IOPS) | 80000 |
| Uncached Disk Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s) | 1228800000 |
| Premium I/O | True |
| Encryption | True |
| Memory Maintenance | False |
Related Instances
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| FX32-8ms_v2 | 32 | 672 |
| ND40rs_v2 | 40 | 672 |
| FX32-16mds_v2 | 32 | 672 |
| FX32-16ms_v2 | 32 | 672 |
| FX32-8mds_v2 | 32 | 672 |
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