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 0.005 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
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-27T15:00:06.130159

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
0.0066 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
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
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
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0076 USD/h 0.041 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0076 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
0.0123 USD/h 0.043 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0165 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
0.0113 USD/h 0.061 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.012 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0147 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    10 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    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 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.018 50.00% 50.00% -87.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 262,931 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.022 20.00% 20.00% -53.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 390 2,416 0.16 10.00% 10.00% -17.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 9,662 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.088 10.00% 10.00% -22.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 490 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.2 10.00% 10.00% -15.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 426
    Compression
    		 5,320
    Encryption
    		 108
    Extended Instructions
    		 349
    Floating Point Maths
    		 1,022
    Integer Maths
    		 1,205
    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
    		 6,908
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 2,669
    Memory Write
    		 2,389

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 206.59 206.59 1.00×
    bitops
    		 39,627 39,627 1.00×
    branch
    		 51,485 51,485 1.00×
    funccall
    		 179.33 179.33 1.00×
    funcret
    		 3,329 3,329 1.00×
    hash
    		 42,193 42,193 1.00×
    intmath
    		 6,733 6,733 1.00×
    nop
    		 60,100 60,100 1.00×
    prime
    		 112,164 112,164 1.00×
    rotate
    		 32,189 32,189 1.00×
    str
    		 188,864 188,864 1.00×
    wcs
    		 149,050 149,050 1.00×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 771.9 771.9 1.00×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 152.05 152.05 1.00×
    zlib
    		 20.59 20.59 1.00×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 5,673 5,673 1.00×
    clone
    		 154.52 154.52 1.00×
    context
    		 631.78 631.78 1.00×
    cpu-sched
    		 69.38 69.38 1.00×
    eventfd
    		 25,286 25,286 1.00×
    fault
    		 2,466 2,466 1.00×
    fork
    		 1,485 1,485 1.00×
    getrandom
    		 14,508 14,508 1.00×
    hrtimers
    		 52,129 52,129 1.00×
    mprotect
    		 87,050 87,050 1.00×
    mtx
    		 17,869,411 17,869,411 1.00×
    munmap
    		 908.34 908.34 1.00×
    null
    		 67,103 67,103 1.00×
    pipe
    		 126,229 126,229 1.00×
    priv-instr
    		 147,154 147,154 1.00×
    resched
    		 13,833 13,833 1.00×
    switch
    		 71,733 71,733 1.00×
    timermix
    		 75,375 75,375 1.00×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 1,161 1,161 1.00×
    tsc
    		 340,226 340,226 1.00×
    usersyscall
    		 103,350 103,350 1.00×
    vdso
    		 25,597,885 25,597,885 1.00×
    vfork
    		 12,124 12,124 1.00×
    x86syscall
    		 768,118 768,118 1.00×
    yield
    		 226,324 226,324 1.00×
    zero
    		 503,662 503,662 1.00×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 4,762 4,762 1.00×
    expmath
    		 843.77 843.77 1.00×
    fma
    		 178,862 178,862 1.00×
    fp
    		 40.78 40.78 1.00×
    fractal
    		 1.8 1.8 1.00×
    hyperbolic
    		 943.6 943.6 1.00×
    logmath
    		 1,480 1,480 1.00×
    matrix
    		 1,122 1,122 1.00×
    matrix-3d
    		 216.67 216.67 1.00×
    monte-carlo
    		 41.15 41.15 1.00×
    mpfr
    		 378.25 378.25 1.00×
    powmath
    		 503.77 503.77 1.00×
    trig
    		 602.22 602.22 1.00×
    veccmp
    		 4,443 4,443 1.00×
    vecfp
    		 266.67 266.67 1.00×
    vecmath
    		 722.12 722.12 1.00×
    vecshuf
    		 181.26 181.26 1.00×
    vecwide
    		 7,130 7,130 1.00×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 2.2 2.2 1.00×
    bsearch
    		 75.86 75.86 1.00×
    bubblesort
    		 0.2 0.2 1.00×
    fibsearch
    		 87.47 87.47 1.00×
    heapsort
    		 2.6 2.6 1.00×
    hsearch
    		 1,344 1,344 1.00×
    insertionsort
    		 2.6 2.6 1.00×
    malloc
    		 408,899 408,899 1.00×
    mcontend
    		 105.58 105.58 1.00×
    mergesort
    		 8.4 8.4 1.00×
    qsort
    		 5.4 5.4 1.00×
    skiplist
    		 1,910 1,910 1.00×
    tree
    		 0.4 0.4 1.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 63,899 63,899 1.00×
    cachehammer
    		 151,901 151,901 1.00×
    cacheline
    		 5.76 5.76 1.00×
    l1cache
    		 62.55 62.55 1.00×
    memcpy
    		 137.25 137.25 1.00×
    memrate
    		 0.37 0.37 1.00×
    memthrash
    		 21.98 21.98 1.00×
    ptr-chase
    		 5,505,245 5,505,245 1.00×
    stream
    		 9.47 9.47 1.00×
    vm
    		 12,355 12,355 1.00×

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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