A2_v2 by Microsoft Azure

A2_v2 is a Av2 family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 20 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0104 USD per hour.

2 vCPU

4 GiB Memory

20 GB Storage

Spare SCore

685
(All-cores)

362
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID	azure
Server ID	Standard_A2_v2
Name	A2_v2
API Reference	Standard_A2_v2
Description	Av2 family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family	Av2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start	24
Status	active
Observed At	2026-07-29T14:20:12.625204

Availability

REGION / ID	SPOT	ONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2	0.014 USD/h	0.0756 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3	0.014 USD/h	0.076 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus	0.0153 USD/h	0.083 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral	0.0147 USD/h	0.0861 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast	0.0159 USD/h	0.0861 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral	0.0159 USD/h	0.0861 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral	0.0159 USD/h	0.0861 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth	0.0159 USD/h	0.0861 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral	0.0159 USD/h	0.0861 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral	0.0159 USD/h	0.0861 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope	0.0159 USD/h	0.0861 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope	0.0162 USD/h	0.0861 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth	0.0104 USD/h	0.087 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral	0.0164 USD/h	0.0885 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest	0.0164 USD/h	0.0885 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus	0.0149 USD/h	0.0903 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast	0.0167 USD/h	0.0903 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus	0.0167 USD/h	0.0903 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus	0.0167 USD/h	0.0903 USD/h
West US (US) / westus	0.0167 USD/h	0.0903 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus	0.0177 USD/h	0.0903 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral	0.0324 USD/h	0.0903 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2	0.0432 USD/h	0.0903 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral	0.0168 USD/h	0.0907 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth	0.0168 USD/h	0.0907 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral	0.0169 USD/h	0.0912 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth	0.017 USD/h	0.092 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia	0.0175 USD/h	0.0945 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast	0.0175 USD/h	0.0947 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth	0.0175 USD/h	0.0947 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia	0.0181 USD/h	0.098 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia	0.0181 USD/h	0.098 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia	0.0181 USD/h	0.098 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral	-	0.098 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest	-	0.098 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral	0.0184 USD/h	0.0996 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth	0.0187 USD/h	0.101 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral	0.0188 USD/h	0.102 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2	0.0105 USD/h	0.105 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral	0.0194 USD/h	0.105 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast	0.0194 USD/h	0.105 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast	0.0194 USD/h	0.105 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia	0.0194 USD/h	0.105 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral	0.0194 USD/h	0.105 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest	0.0194 USD/h	0.105 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth	0.0198 USD/h	0.107 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral	0.0207 USD/h	0.112 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast	0.0209 USD/h	0.113 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest	0.0209 USD/h	0.113 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth	0.0227 USD/h	0.123 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest	0.0227 USD/h	0.123 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest	0.0227 USD/h	0.123 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest	0.0235 USD/h	0.127 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth	0.02 USD/h	0.128 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth	0.0245 USD/h	0.136 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast	0.0278 USD/h	0.168 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs	2
Hypervisor	Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation	Dedicated
CPU Cores	2
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	64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache	32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total	64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache	256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total	512 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, ht, 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	1.9
Scalability	95

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount	4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual	4 GiB

GPU
GPU Count	0
GPU Memory Min	0 MiB
GPU Memory Total	0 MiB
GPUs

STORAGE
Storage Size	20 GB
Storages	20 GB ssd (temp disk)

NETWORK
Inbound Traffic	0 GB/month
Outbound Traffic	0 GB/month
IPv4	0

CPU and System Topology

Server Description

An entry-level virtual machine with dedicated dual-core processing and local storage for basic development and low-demand testing environments.

Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

Microsoft Azure A2_v2 is an entry-level virtual machine from the Av2 family, featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs on an Intel Xeon 8171M x86_64 processor running at 2.6 GHz. It is configured with 4.0 GB of memory and 20 GB of local storage, operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Performance benchmarks consistently place this server in the bottom 10% across CPU, memory bandwidth, and database operations. It achieves a static web serving throughput of 0.82 GB/sec and 0.95 million operations per second for Redis SET tasks. Given these resource constraints and low benchmark-per-resource tradeoffs, the A2_v2 is best suited for low-demand workloads, including basic development, testing environments, and lightweight administrative scripting.

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

0.058Score

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
Component	Raw		Reference		Normalized	Target	Actual	Impact
Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET)	64,887	ops/sec	1,896,415	ops/sec	0.0342	50.00%	50.00%	-81.50%
Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET)	522,638	ops/sec	11,539,523	ops/sec	0.0453	20.00%	20.00%	-46.10%
PassMark Memory Mark (composite)	493		2,411		0.205	10.00%	10.00%	-14.70%
Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3)	9,232	MB/sec	107,368	MB/sec	0.086	10.00%	10.00%	-21.80%
PassMark single-thread CPU	616.2	Mops/s	2,363	Mops/s	0.261	10.00%	10.00%	-12.60%

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Score: 341

Geekbench Multi-Core

Score: 609

Passmark CPU Scores

BENCHMARK	SCORE
Mark	947
Compression	11164
Encryption	304
Extended Instructions	969
Floating Point Maths	1991
Integer Maths	2391
Physics	108
Prime Numbers	6
Single Threaded	616
String Sorting	1340

Passmark Memory Scores

BENCHMARK	SCORE
Memory Mark	493
Database Operations	402
Memory Latency	155
Memory Read Cached	7360
Memory Read Uncached	2619
Memory Write	2825

Stress-ng Raw Scores

Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

Static Web Server

Redis

Alternatives

Servers of the Same Family

INSTANCE	vCPUs	MEMORY
A1_v2	1	2 GiB
A2m_v2	2	16 GiB
A4_v2	4	8 GiB
A4m_v2	4	32 GiB
A8_v2	8	16 GiB
A8m_v2	8	64 GiB

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Specifications

Server Metadata

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Processor

System Resources and Accelerators

CPU and System Topology

Server Description

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Geekbench Multi-Core

Passmark CPU Scores

Passmark Memory Scores

Stress-ng Raw Scores

Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

Static Web Server

Redis

Alternatives

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A2_v2 by Microsoft Azure

Specifications

Server Metadata

Availability

Processor

System Resources and Accelerators

CPU and System Topology

Server Description

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Geekbench Multi-Core

Passmark CPU Scores

Passmark Memory Scores

Stress-ng Raw Scores

Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

Static Web Server

Redis

Alternatives

Servers of the Same Family

Similar Servers

A2_v2 FAQs

What is A2_v2?

What are the specs of the A2_v2 server?

How fast is the A2_v2 server?

How much does the A2_v2 server cost?

Who is the provider of the A2_v2 server?

Where is the A2_v2 server available?

Are there any other sized servers in the Av2 server family?

What other servers offer similar performance to A2_v2?

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