Compare Azure Virtual Machines

Name	Standard_A8_v2	Standard_D8alds_v7
Details	Standard is recommended tier A – Entry-level VMs for dev/test 8 – The number of vCPUs v2 – version	Standard is recommended tier D – General purpose compute 8 – VM Size a – AMD-based processor d – Diskfull (local temp disk is present) l – A lower amount of memory than the memory intensive size s – Premium Storage capable v7 – version
vCPUs	8	8
CPU Architecture	x64	x64
Memory (GiB)	16	16
Hyper-V Generations	V1	V2
ACUs	100	0
GPUs	0	0
Max Network Interfaces	8	4
RDMA Enabled	no	no
Accelerated Net	no	yes
OS Disk Size	1023 GiB	1023 GiB
Res Disk Size	80 GiB	440 GiB
Max Disks	16	26
Support Premium Disk	no	yes
Combined IOPS is a sum of all attached disk's IOPs	8000	36000
Uncached Disk IOPS	12800	16000
Combined Write is a sum of all attached disk's write throughtput	80 MiB/Sec	477 MiB/Sec
Combined Read is a sum of all attached disk's read throughtput	160 MiB/Sec	477 MiB/Sec
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.02x

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Region	Standard_A8_v2	Standard_D8alds_v7
Asia Pacific / Central India (centralindia)	n/a	0.2460
Asia Pacific / Jio India West (jioindiawest)	n/a	0.2460
undefined / hidden-1 (hidden-1)	0.3800	0.3810
undefined / hidden-10 (hidden-10)	0.3830	0.4430
undefined / hidden-11 (hidden-11)	0.3870	0.4470
undefined / hidden-12 (hidden-12)	0.3870	0.4470
undefined / hidden-13 (hidden-13)	0.3870	0.4470
undefined / hidden-14 (hidden-14)	0.3910	0.4470
undefined / hidden-15 (hidden-15)	0.3910	0.4560
undefined / hidden-16 (hidden-16)	0.3940	0.4600
undefined / hidden-17 (hidden-17)	0.3990	0.4610
undefined / hidden-18 (hidden-18)	0.3990	0.4610
undefined / hidden-19 (hidden-19)	0.3990	0.4700
undefined / hidden-2 (hidden-2)	0.3800	0.3810
undefined / hidden-20 (hidden-20)	0.3990	0.4700
undefined / hidden-21 (hidden-21)	0.3990	0.4780
undefined / hidden-22 (hidden-22)	0.3990	0.4780
undefined / hidden-23 (hidden-23)	0.3990	0.4830
undefined / hidden-24 (hidden-24)	0.3990	0.4960
undefined / hidden-25 (hidden-25)	0.4000	0.4960
undefined / hidden-26 (hidden-26)	0.4000	0.5100
undefined / hidden-27 (hidden-27)	0.4010	0.5270
undefined / hidden-28 (hidden-28)	0.4050	0.5450
undefined / hidden-29 (hidden-29)	0.4170	0.5450
undefined / hidden-3 (hidden-3)	0.3800	0.3810
undefined / hidden-30 (hidden-30)	0.4190	0.6110
undefined / hidden-31 (hidden-31)	0.4260	n/a
undefined / hidden-32 (hidden-32)	0.4330	n/a
undefined / hidden-33 (hidden-33)	0.4330	n/a
undefined / hidden-34 (hidden-34)	0.4330	n/a
undefined / hidden-35 (hidden-35)	0.4330	n/a
undefined / hidden-36 (hidden-36)	0.4400	n/a
undefined / hidden-37 (hidden-37)	0.4460	n/a
undefined / hidden-38 (hidden-38)	0.4500	n/a
undefined / hidden-39 (hidden-39)	0.4640	n/a
undefined / hidden-4 (hidden-4)	0.3800	0.3810
undefined / hidden-40 (hidden-40)	0.4640	n/a
undefined / hidden-41 (hidden-41)	0.4640	n/a
undefined / hidden-42 (hidden-42)	0.4640	n/a
undefined / hidden-43 (hidden-43)	0.4640	n/a
undefined / hidden-44 (hidden-44)	0.4640	n/a
undefined / hidden-45 (hidden-45)	0.4640	n/a
undefined / hidden-46 (hidden-46)	0.4950	n/a
undefined / hidden-47 (hidden-47)	0.5000	n/a
undefined / hidden-48 (hidden-48)	0.5000	n/a
undefined / hidden-49 (hidden-49)	0.5120	n/a
undefined / hidden-5 (hidden-5)	0.3800	0.3810
undefined / hidden-50 (hidden-50)	0.5440	n/a
undefined / hidden-51 (hidden-51)	0.5440	n/a
undefined / hidden-52 (hidden-52)	0.5590	n/a
undefined / hidden-53 (hidden-53)	0.5660	n/a
undefined / hidden-54 (hidden-54)	0.6030	n/a
undefined / hidden-55 (hidden-55)	0.7370	n/a
undefined / hidden-6 (hidden-6)	0.3800	0.4080
undefined / hidden-7 (hidden-7)	0.3800	0.4190
undefined / hidden-8 (hidden-8)	0.3800	0.4260
undefined / hidden-9 (hidden-9)	0.3800	0.4260
US / Central US (centralus)	n/a	0.3810
US / West Central US (westcentralus)	0.3670	n/a
US / West US 2 (westus2)	0.3330	n/a
US / West US 3 (westus3)	0.3330	n/a