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A1_v2 by Microsoft Azure

A1_v2 is a Av2 family [Intel processor] 1 vCPU server offered by Microsoft Azure with 1 vCPUs, 2 GiB of memory and 10 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0049 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
2 GiB Memory
10 GB Storage
Spare SCore
331
(All-cores)
331
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_A1_v2
Name
A1_v2
API Reference
Standard_A1_v2
Description
Av2 family [Intel processor] 1 vCPU
Family
Av2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-29T09:02:05.134283

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0067 USD/h 0.036 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0067 USD/h 0.036 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0074 USD/h 0.04 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0049 USD/h 0.041 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.007 USD/h 0.041 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0076 USD/h 0.041 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0076 USD/h 0.041 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0076 USD/h 0.041 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0076 USD/h 0.041 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0076 USD/h 0.041 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0076 USD/h 0.041 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0076 USD/h 0.041 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0077 USD/h 0.041 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0078 USD/h 0.0421 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0078 USD/h 0.0421 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0071 USD/h 0.043 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0079 USD/h 0.043 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0079 USD/h 0.043 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0079 USD/h 0.043 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0079 USD/h 0.043 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0084 USD/h 0.043 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0154 USD/h 0.043 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0206 USD/h 0.043 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.008 USD/h 0.0432 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.008 USD/h 0.0432 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.008 USD/h 0.0432 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0081 USD/h 0.044 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0083 USD/h 0.045 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0083 USD/h 0.0451 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0083 USD/h 0.0451 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0087 USD/h 0.047 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0087 USD/h 0.047 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0087 USD/h 0.047 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.047 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.047 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0088 USD/h 0.0474 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0089 USD/h 0.0482 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0091 USD/h 0.049 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.005 USD/h 0.05 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0092 USD/h 0.05 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0092 USD/h 0.05 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0092 USD/h 0.05 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0092 USD/h 0.05 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0092 USD/h 0.05 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0092 USD/h 0.05 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0098 USD/h 0.0533 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0098 USD/h 0.0533 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.01 USD/h 0.054 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.01 USD/h 0.054 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0108 USD/h 0.0586 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0108 USD/h 0.0586 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0108 USD/h 0.0587 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0112 USD/h 0.0605 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0096 USD/h 0.061 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0117 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0131 USD/h 0.0793 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
1
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8171M
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
50 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
50 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, md_clear
Ecpus
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
2 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    10 GB
    Storages
    • 10 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A budget-friendly, single-core virtual machine with 2 GB of RAM and local storage for basic development and lightweight testing workloads.

    Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure A1_v2 is an entry-level virtual machine from the Av2 family, powered by a single dedicated Intel Xeon 8171M core running at 2.6 GHz. It is equipped with 2.0 GB of RAM and 10 GB of local storage. Across all benchmark categories, including CPU, memory bandwidth, and database operations, the server performs in the bottom 10% of tested hardware. Specifically, it achieves a Passmark CPU score of 425.99 and a static web serving throughput of 0.45 GB/sec. Given these resource constraints and low performance metrics, the A1_v2 is positioned as a budget-friendly option for lightweight workloads. It is best suited for basic development, low-traffic testing, and simple background tasks rather than production databases or compute-heavy applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.035Score
    Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
    Component Score Weight Impact
    Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
    Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 34,009 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.0179 50.00% 50.00% -86.60%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 262,931 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.0228 20.00% 20.00% -53.10%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 393.6 2,411 0.163 10.00% 10.00% -16.60%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 9,662 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.09 10.00% 10.00% -21.40%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 491.4 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.208 10.00% 10.00% -14.50%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 426
    Compression
    		 5320
    Encryption
    		 108
    Extended Instructions
    		 349
    Floating Point Maths
    		 1022
    Integer Maths
    		 1205
    Physics
    		 52
    Prime Numbers
    		 3
    Single Threaded
    		 491
    String Sorting
    		 759

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 394
    Database Operations
    		 180
    Memory Latency
    		 172
    Memory Read Cached
    		 6908
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 2669
    Memory Write
    		 2389

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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