Compare Azure Virtual Machines

Name	Standard_L16s_v4	Standard_M16bs_v3
Details	Standard is recommended tier L – Storage optimised 16 – The number of vCPUs s – Premium Storage capable v4 – version	Standard is recommended tier M – Memory-optimised 16 – The number of vCPUs b – Block Storage performance s – Premium Storage capable v3 – version
vCPUs	16	16
CPU Architecture	x64	x64
Memory (GiB)	128	128
Hyper-V Generations	V2	V2
ACUs	0	0
GPUs	0	0
Max Network Interfaces	8	8
RDMA Enabled	no	no
Accelerated Net	yes	yes
OS Disk Size	1023 GiB	1023 GiB
Res Disk Size	3576 GiB	0 GiB
Max Disks	48	64
Support Premium Disk	yes	yes
Combined IOPS is a sum of all attached disk's IOPs	72000	10000
Uncached Disk IOPS	25600	44000
Combined Write is a sum of all attached disk's write throughtput	954 MiB/Sec	95 MiB/Sec
Combined Read is a sum of all attached disk's read throughtput	954 MiB/Sec	95 MiB/Sec
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.04x

Regional Prices

Region	Standard_L16s_v4	Standard_M16bs_v3
Asia Pacific / Central India (centralindia)	n/a	1.4000
US / East US (eastus)	1.3920	1.4000
US / East US 2 (eastus2)	1.3960	n/a
US / North Central US (northcentralus)	n/a	1.3952
US / West US 2 (westus2)	1.3960	n/a
US / West US 3 (westus3)	1.3960	1.3952