Compare Azure Virtual Machines

Name	Standard_A8m_v2	Standard_L8s_v4
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 L – Storage optimised 8 – The number of vCPUs s – Premium Storage capable v4 – 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	yes
OS Disk Size	1023 GiB	1023 GiB
Res Disk Size	80 GiB	1788 GiB
Max Disks	16	24
Support Premium Disk	no	yes
Combined IOPS is a sum of all attached disk's IOPs	8000	36000
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	1.57x

Regional Prices

Region	Standard_A8m_v2	Standard_L8s_v4
Europe / Austria East (austriaeast)	0.4530	n/a
US / East US (eastus)	n/a	0.6960
US / East US 2 (eastus2)	n/a	0.6980
US / West Central US (westcentralus)	0.4420	n/a
US / West US 2 (westus2)	0.3970	0.6980
US / West US 3 (westus3)	0.4370	0.6980