Windows Virtual Machines Pricing
- Pay as you go
- No upfront cost
- Per-second billing
- Save with reserved VM instances
Start your Azure free account and get 12 months free access to Virtual Machines plus $200 credit for 30 days.
Azure Virtual Machines gives you the flexibility of virtualisation for a wide range of computing solutions with support for Linux, Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, SAP and more. All current generation Virtual Machines include load balancing and auto-scaling at no cost. For optimal performance, we recommend pairing your Virtual Machines with Managed Disks. Standard egress charges apply.
Choose from the following payment options for Virtual Machines. Combine either option with the Azure Hybrid Benefit for additional savings.
Pay as you go
Pay for compute capacity by the second, with no long-term commitment or upfront payments. Increase or decrease compute capacity on demand. Start or stop at any time and only pay for what you use.
Learn moreRecommended for:
- Users who prefer the low cost and flexibility of Azure Virtual Machines.
- Applications with short-term, spiky, or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted.
- Applications being developed or tested on Azure Virtual Machines for the first time.
Reserved Virtual Machine Instances
An Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instance is an advance purchase of a Virtual Machine for one or three years in a specified region. The commitment is made up front, and in return, you get up to 72 per cent price savings compared to pay-as-you-go pricing. Reserved Virtual Machine Instances are flexible and can easily be exchanged or returned.
Learn moreRecommended for:
- Applications with steady-state usage.
- Customers who want budget predictability.
- Customers who can commit to using a virtual machine (VM) over a one-year or three-year term to reduce computing costs.
Spot pricing
Purchase unused compute capacity at deep discounts – up to 90 per cent compared to pay-as-you-go prices. *
If your workload can tolerate interruptions, and its execution time is flexible, then using spot VMs can significantly reduce the cost of running your workload in Azure. Run your workloads on Virtual Machines or Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
* Actual discounts may vary based on region, VM type and Azure compute capacity available when the workload is deployed.
Learn moreRecommended for:
- Customers who want to significantly lower their costs.
- Interruptible applications. You can receive a notification 30 seconds in advance before your application is evicted.
- Workloads that do not require completion within a predetermined time frame or an SLA.
Example Virtual Machines pricing
Azure Virtual Machines are designed for all budgets and workloads, starting from our economical Bs-series to our newest GPU VMs optimised for machine learning. Explore popular categories:
General purpose—Av2
Cost-effective
The Av2 virtual machines offer a cost-effective option for dev-test environments, low-traffic websites and web applications, micro services and small databases.
Specs:
- A1 v2
- 1 vCPU(s)
- 2 GiB RAM
Compute Optimised—Fsv2
Raw compute power
Fsv2 is our newest compute-optimised VM family and is powered by the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8168 (Skylake) processor for raw compute power.
Specs:
- F2s v2
- 2 vCPU(s)
- 4 GiB RAM
General purpose—Dv3
Balanced CPU and memory
Our Dv3 family is the latest generation of our general purpose VMs powered by Intel® Xeon® processors. It is appropriate for a variety of workloads.
Specs:
- D2 v3
- 2 vCPU(s)
- 8 GiB RAM
Memory optimised—Ev3
High memory-to-core ratio
Ev3 is our latest generation of memory-optimised VMs powered by Intel® Xeon® Processors. It is great for relational database servers, caches and in-memory analytics.
Specs:
- E2 v3
- 2 vCPU(s)
- 16 GiB RAM
HBv2 VMs now available
Optimised for applications driven by memory bandwidth
- Powered by AMD EPYC™ 7002-series CPU cores
- Optimised for HPC workloads such as CFD, weather modelling and seismic processing
- 200 Gb/sec HDR InfiniBand for large-scale jobs
- Scale up to 80,000 cores for MPI jobs
Explore all Virtual Machine options
Explore options in Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your OS and software combination, and find VMs for your vCPU(s) (core), RAM and storage requirements.
US government entities are eligible to purchase Azure Government services from a licensing solution provider with no upfront financial commitment or directly through a pay-as-you-go online subscription.
Important: The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
Azure Germany is available to customers and partners who have already purchased this, doing business in the European Union (EU), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and in the United Kingdom (UK). It provides data residency in Germany with additional levels of control and data protection. You can also sign up for a free Azure trial.
US government entities are eligible to purchase Azure Government services from a licensing solution provider with no upfront financial commitment or directly through a pay-as-you-go online subscription.
Important: The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
Azure Germany is available to customers and partners who have already purchased this, doing business in the European Union (EU), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and in the United Kingdom (UK). It provides data residency in Germany with additional levels of control and data protection. You can also sign up for a free Azure trial.
General purpose
Balanced CPU-to-memory ratio. Ideal for testing and development, small to medium databases, and low to medium traffic web servers.
Bs-series
Bs-series are economical virtual machines that provide a low-cost option for workloads that typically run at a low to moderate baseline CPU performance, but sometimes need to burst to significantly higher CPU performance when the demand rises. These workloads don’t require the use of the full CPU all the time, but occasionally will need to burst to finish some tasks more quickly. Many applications such as development and test servers, low-traffic web servers, small databases, micro services, servers for proof-of-concepts, build servers and code repositories fit into this model.| Add to estimate |
Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary storage |
Pay as you go with AHB
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1-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
3-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
Spot with AHB (% Savings) |
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| B1S | 1 | 1 GiB | 4 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| B1MS | 1 | 2 GiB | 4 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| B2S | 2 | 4 GiB | 8 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| B2MS | 2 | 8 GiB | 16 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| B4MS | 4 | 16 GiB | 32 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| B8MS | 8 | 32 GiB | 64 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| B12MS | 12 | 48 GiB | 96 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| B16MS | 16 | 64 GiB | 128 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| B20MS | 20 | 80 GiB | 160 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- |
Av2 Standard *
Av2 Standard is the latest generation of A-series virtual machines with similar CPU performance and faster disk. These virtual machines are suitable for development workloads, build servers, code repositories, low-traffic websites and web applications, micro services, early product experiments and small databases. Like the prior A Standard generation, Av2 virtual machines will include load balancing and auto-scaling at no additional charge.
| Add to estimate |
Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary storage |
Pay as you go with AHB
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1-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
3-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
Spot with AHB (% Savings) * |
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| A1 v2 | 1 | 2 GiB | 10 GiB | $- | – – | – – | $- | |
| A2 v2 | 2 | 4 GiB | 20 GiB | $- | – – | – – | $- | |
| A2m v2 | 2 | 16 GiB | 20 GiB | $- | – – | – – | $- | |
| A4 v2 | 4 | 8 GiB | 40 GiB | $- | – – | – – | $- | |
| A4m v2 | 4 | 32 GiB | 40 GiB | $- | – – | – – | $- | |
| A8 v2 | 8 | 16 GiB | 80 GiB | $- | – – | – – | $- | |
| A8m v2 | 8 | 64 GiB | 80 GiB | $- | – – | – – | $- |
D2a – D96a v4
The Da v4-series VMs are based on the 2.35 Ghz AMD EPYCTM 7452 processor, which can achieve up to 3.35 GHz. The Dav4 VM sizes offer a combination of vCPU(s), memory and temporary storage able to meet the requirements associated with most production workloads. Data disk storage is billed separately from virtual machines. To use Premium SSD disk storage, select the Das v4 VMs.| Add to estimate |
Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary storage |
Pay as you go with AHB
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1-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
3-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
Spot with AHB (% Savings) * |
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| D2a v4 | 2 | 8 GiB | 50 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D4a v4 | 4 | 16 GiB | 100 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D8a v4 | 8 | 32 GiB | 200 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D16a v4 | 16 | 64 GiB | 400 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D32a v4 | 32 | 128 GiB | 800 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D48a v4 | 48 | 192 GiB | 1,200 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D64a v4 | 64 | 256 GiB | 1,600 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D96a v4 | 96 | 384 GiB | 2,400 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- |
D2as – D96as v4
The Das v4-series VMs support Premium SSD disk storage and are based on the 2.35 Ghz AMD EPYCTM 7452 processor, which can achieve up to 3.35 GHz. The Das v4 VM sizes offer a combination of vCPUs, memory and temporary storage able to meet the requirements associated with most production workloads.The VM pricing and billing meters for Das v4 VMs are the same as Da v4 VM series. Persistent storage disks are billed separately from virtual machines. See pricing for disks.
| Add to estimate |
Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary storage |
Pay as you go with AHB
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1-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
3-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
Spot with AHB (% Savings) * |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D2as v4 | 2 | 8 GiB | 16 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D4as v4 | 4 | 16 GiB | 32 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D8as v4 | 8 | 32 GiB | 64 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D16as v4 | 16 | 64 GiB | 128 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D32as v4 | 32 | 128 GiB | 256 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D48as v4 | 48 | 192 GiB | 384 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D64as v4 | 64 | 256 GiB | 512 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D96as v4 | 96 | 384 GiB | 768 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- |
D2d – D64d v4 (latest generation)
The Dd v4 series virtual machines are based on the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL processor. This custom processor runs at a base speed of 2.5 Ghz and can achieve up to 3.4 Ghz all core turbo frequency. The Ddv4/Ddsv4 virtual machine sizes feature fast, large local SSD storage (up to 2,400 GiB) and are well suited for applications that benefit from low-latency, high-speed local storage. For example, applications that need large numbers of reads and writes to temporary storage or applications that need temporary storage data for scratch files or caches would benefit from these new VM series.
The Dd v4 VM sizes offer a combination of vCPUs, memory and temporary storage able to meet the requirements associated with most production workloads. You can attach Standard SSDs and Standard HDDs disk storage to these VMs. To use Premium SSD or Ultra Disk storage, select Dds v4 VMs. Disk storage is billed separately from virtual machines.
| Add to estimate |
Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary storage |
Pay as you go with AHB
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1-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
3-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
Spot with AHB (% Savings) * |
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| D2d v4 | 2 | 8 GiB | 75 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D4d v4 | 4 | 16 GiB | 150 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D8d v4 | 8 | 32 GiB | 300 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D16d v4 | 16 | 64 GiB | 600 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D32d v4 | 32 | 128 GiB | 1,200 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D48d v4 | 48 | 192 GiB | 1,800 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D64d v4 | 64 | 256 GiB | 2,400 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- |
D2ds – D64ds v4 (latest generation)
The Dds v4 series virtual machines are based on the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL processor. This custom processor runs at a base speed of 2.5 Ghz and can achieve up to 3.4 Ghz all core turbo frequency. The Ddv4/Ddsv4 virtual machine sizes feature fast, large local SSD storage (up to 2,400 GiB) and are well suited for applications that benefit from low latency, high-speed local storage, such as applications that need fast reads and writes to temporary storage, or applications that need temporary storage for caches or temporary files.
The Dds v4 VM sizes offer a combination of vCPUs, memory and temporary storage able to meet the requirements associated with most production workloads. You can attach Standard SSDs, Standard HDDs and Premium SSDs disk storage to these VMs. You can also attach Ultra Disk storage based on its regional availability. Disk storage is billed separately from virtual machines.
| Add to estimate |
Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary storage |
Pay as you go with AHB
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1-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
3-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
Spot with AHB (% Savings) * |
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| D2ds v4 | 2 | 8 GiB | 75 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D4ds v4 | 4 | 16 GiB | 150 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D8ds v4 | 8 | 32 GiB | 300 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D16ds v4 | 16 | 64 GiB | 600 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D32ds v4 | 32 | 128 GiB | 1,200 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D48ds v4 | 48 | 192 GiB | 1,800 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D64ds v4 | 64 | 256 GiB | 2,400 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- |
D2 – D64 v4 (latest generation without temporary storage)
The D v4 series virtual machines feature the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL (second generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor). This custom processor runs at a base speed of 2.5 Ghz and can achieve up to 3.4 Ghz all core turbo frequency. The Dv4/Dsv4 virtual machine sizes do not have any temporary storage. The D v4 VM sizes offer a combination of vCPUs and memory able to meet the requirements associated with most production workloads. You can attach Standard SSDs and Standard HDDs disk storage to these VMs. If you prefer to use Premium SSD or Ultra Disk storage, please select the Ds v4 virtual machines instead. Disk storage is billed separately from virtual machines. See pricing for disks.
| Add to estimate |
Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary storage |
Pay as you go with AHB
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1-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
3-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
Spot with AHB (% Savings) * |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D2 v4 | 2 | 8 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D4 v4 | 4 | 16 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D8 v4 | 8 | 32 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D16 v4 | 16 | 64 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D32 v4 | 32 | 128 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D48 v4 | 48 | 192 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D64 v4 | 64 | 256 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- |
D2s – D64s v4 (latest generation without temporary storage)
The Ds v4 series virtual machines feature the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL (second generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor). This custom processor runs at a base speed of 2.5 Ghz and can achieve up to 3.4 Ghz all core turbo frequency. The Dv4/Dsv4 virtual machine sizes do not have any temporary storage. The Ds v4 VM sizes offer a combination of vCPUs and memory able to meet the requirements associated with most production workloads. You can attach Standard SSDs, Standard HDDs and Premium SSDs disk storage to these VMs. You can also attach Ultra Disk storage based on its regional availability. Disk storage is billed separately from virtual machines. See pricing for disks.
| Add to estimate |
Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary storage |
Pay as you go with AHB
|
1-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
3-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
Spot with AHB (% Savings) * |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D2s v4 | 2 | 8 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D4s v4 | 4 | 16 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D8s v4 | 8 | 32 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D16s v4 | 16 | 64 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D32s v4 | 32 | 128 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D48s v4 | 48 | 192 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D64s v4 | 64 | 256 GiB | N/A | $- | $- | $- | $- |
D2-64 v3
The Dv3-series virtual machines run on the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL processor (second generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors), Intel® Xeon® 8171M 2.1GHz (Skylake), Intel® Xeon® E5-2673 v4 2.3 GHz (Broadwell) or the Intel® Xeon® E5-2673 v3 2.4 GHz (Haswell) processors in a hyper-threaded configuration. The Dv3-series sizes offer a combination of vCPU(s), memory and local disks well suited for most production workloads.
| Add to estimate |
Instance | vCPU(s) | RAM | Temporary storage |
Pay as you go with AHB
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1-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
3-year reserved with AHB (% Savings) |
Spot with AHB (% Savings) * |
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| D2 v3 | 2 | 8 GiB | 50 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D4 v3 | 4 | 16 GiB | 100 GiB | $- | $- | $- | $- | |
| D8 v3 | 8 | 32 GiB | 200 GiB | $- | $- | $- |