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 0.01044 USD per hour.

The A2_v2 server is equipped with 2 logical CPU cores on 2 Intel Xeon 8171M physical CPU cores, 4 GiB of memory, 20 GB of storage, and no GPU. Additional block storage can be attached as needed.

We have run 53 frameworks on the A2_v2 server, and collected 443 performance metrics. Depending on your use case, you might want to look at our Memory bandwidth, Compression algo, or OpenSSL speed benchmarks, among others. As a baseline example, the multi-core Geekbench6 compound score suggests that the A2_v2 server is 0.2436x slower than the baseline Dell Precision 3460 with a Core i7-12700 processor.

The pricing for A2_v2 servers starts at 0.01044 USD per hour, but the actual price depends on the selected region, zone and server allocation method (e.g. on-demand versus spot pricing options): currently, we track the prices in 250 regions and zones every 5 minutes, and the maximum price stands at 0.168 USD.

The A2_v2 server is offered by Microsoft Azure, founded in 2008, headquartered in Washington, United States. For more information, visit the Microsoft Azure homepage.

The A2_v2 server is available in 250 availability zones of the following 55 regions: UK South (GB), Australia Central 2 (AU), West US 3 (US), West US 2 (US), Italy North (IT), Poland Central (PL), Sweden Central (SE), West Europe (NL), North Central US (US), Israel Central (IL), UAE North (AE), Korea South (KR), West Central US (US), Southeast Asia (SG), Switzerland North (CH), Germany West Central (DE), Spain Central (ES), Central India (IN), South India (IN), Indonesia Central (ID), Malaysia West (MY), Canada East (CA), Central US (US), South Central US (US), Austria East (AT), Qatar Central (QA), Korea Central (KR), Australia Central (AU), East Asia (HK), France Central (FR), Norway East (NO), Germany North (DE), Mexico Central (ZA), West India (IN), East US (US), South Africa North (ZA), Japan West (JP), Canada Central (CA), North Europe (IE), Australia East (AU), UK West (GB), East US 2 (US), Australia Southeast (AU), UAE Central (AE), Japan East (JP), South Africa West (ZA), New Zealand North (NZ), France South (FR), West US (US), Norway West (NO), Switzerland West (CH), Brazil South (BR), Brazil Southeast (US), Jio India Central (IN), Jio India West (IN).

Yes! In addition to the A2_v2 server, the Av2 server family includes 6 other sizes: A1_v2 (azure), A2m_v2 (azure), A4_v2 (azure), A4m_v2 (azure), A8_v2 (azure), A8m_v2 (azure).

Looking at the number of GPU, vCPUs, and memory amount, the following top 10 servers come with similar specs: cx22 (hcloud), c2d-highcpu-2 (gcp), n4-highcpu-2 (gcp), c4-highcpu-2 (gcp), c4a-highcpu-2 (gcp), 2xCPU-4GB (upcloud), cx21 (hcloud).