As we launched memory-optimized M-series family with high remote storage performance, Mb Family, in Sep ’24, there’s been strong demand for more computing optimization, especially from healthcare organizations. Today, we're excited to expand the Mbv3 portfolio to better support large-scale, mission-critical database workloads—especially for healthcare organizations operating EHR (Electronic Health Records) database on Azure. We’re pleased to announce the general availability of the new Mbv3 size, Standard_M416bs_v3.
This new SKU offers increased vCPU cores along with enhanced memory and remote storage performance, making it ideal for high-performance database scenarios that require consistent throughput, scalability, and reliability.
Key features
- The Mbv3 series are based on the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, scale for workloads up to 4TB, and deliver with NVMe interface for higher remote disk storage performance.
- This VM size, newly added to the Mbv3 series, Standard_M416bs_v3, offers 416 vCPU which is over 2x the vCPU of the largest launched Mbv3 VM.
- The Standard_M416bs_v3 offers high remote storage performance with up to 550,000 IOPS and 10 GBps of remote disk storage bandwidth.
- The increased remote storage performance of Mbv3 series is ideal for storage throughput-intensive workloads such as relational databases and data analytics applications.
Mbsv3 series (NVMe)
Size |
vCPU |
Memory: GiB |
Max data disks |
Max uncached Premium SSD: IOPS/Throughput(MBps) |
Max uncached Ultra Disk and Premium SSD V2 disk: IOPS/Throughput(MBps) |
Max NICs |
Max network bandwidth (Mbps) |
Standard_M416bs_v3 |
416 |
3800 |
64 |
240,000/8,000 |
550,000/10,000 |
8 |
50,000 |
Regional Availability and Pricing
The VMs are now available in Central US, East US 2, East US, West US 2.
For pricing details, please refer to Pricing Calculator | Microsoft Azure