Compare Azure Virtual Machines

Name	Standard_L12aos_v4	Standard_M12s_v3
Details	Standard is recommended tier L – Storage optimised 12 – The number of vCPUs a – AMD-based processor o – Increased vCPU to local SSD storage capacity ratio s – Premium Storage capable v4 – version	Standard is recommended tier M – Memory-optimised 12 – The number of vCPUs s – Premium Storage capable v3 – version
vCPUs	12	12
CPU Architecture	x64	x64
Memory (GiB)	96	240
Hyper-V Generations	V2	V2
ACUs	0	0
GPUs	0	0
Max Network Interfaces	6	4
RDMA Enabled	no	no
Accelerated Net	yes	yes
OS Disk Size	1023 GiB	1023 GiB
Res Disk Size	8046 GiB	0 GiB
Max Disks	16	64
Support Premium Disk	yes	yes
Combined IOPS is a sum of all attached disk's IOPs	54000	10000
Uncached Disk IOPS	26400	16250
Combined Write is a sum of all attached disk's write throughtput	715 MiB/Sec	95 MiB/Sec
Combined Read is a sum of all attached disk's read throughtput	715 MiB/Sec	95 MiB/Sec
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.27x

Regional Prices

Region	Standard_L12aos_v4	Standard_M12s_v3
Asia Pacific / Indonesia Central (indonesiacentral)	1.1950	n/a
Asia Pacific / Malaysia West (malaysiawest)	1.2000	n/a
Europe / Austria East (austriaeast)	1.3560	n/a
Europe / Belgium Central (belgiumcentral)	1.3560	n/a
US / East US (eastus)	n/a	1.5400
US / East US 2 (eastus2)	n/a	1.5400
US / North Central US (northcentralus)	n/a	1.5400
US / West US 2 (westus2)	n/a	1.5400