Compare Azure Virtual Machines

Name	Standard_A8m_v2	Standard_EC8es_v6
Details	Standard is recommended tier A – Entry-level VMs for dev/test 8 – The number of vCPUs m – The most amount of memory in a particular size v2 – version	Standard is recommended tier E – Optimised for in-memory hyper-threaded applications C – Confidential 8 – The number of vCPUs s – Premium Storage capable e – Encrypted; contains confidential TDX capabilities v6 – version
vCPUs	8	8
CPU Architecture	x64	x64
Memory (GiB)	64	64
Hyper-V Generations	V1	V2
ACUs	100	0
GPUs	0	0
Max Network Interfaces	8	4
RDMA Enabled	no	no
Accelerated Net	no	no
OS Disk Size	1023 GiB	1023 GiB
Res Disk Size	80 GiB	0 GiB
Max Disks	16	24
Support Premium Disk	no	yes
Combined IOPS is a sum of all attached disk's IOPs	8000	38000
Uncached Disk IOPS	12800	12800
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	1.07x

Regional Prices

Region	Standard_A8m_v2	Standard_EC8es_v6
Europe / Austria East (austriaeast)	0.4530	n/a
Europe / West Europe (westeurope)	n/a	0.6380
US / East US (eastus)	n/a	0.5290
US / West Central US (westcentralus)	0.4420	n/a
US / West US (westus)	n/a	0.5880
US / West US 2 (westus2)	0.3970	n/a
US / West US 3 (westus3)	0.4370	0.5290