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 0.0105 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
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-28T07:57:06.884192

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
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
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
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
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
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0159 USD/h 0.0861 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0159 USD/h 0.0861 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0139 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
0.0259 USD/h 0.0903 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0346 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
0.0237 USD/h 0.128 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0251 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.031 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    20 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    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

    0.057Score
    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) 64,887 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.034 50.00% 50.00% -82.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 522,638 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.043 20.00% 20.00% -47.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 490 2,416 0.2 10.00% 10.00% -15.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 9,232 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.084 10.00% 10.00% -22.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 620 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.26 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 341

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 609

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 947
    Compression
    		 11,164
    Encryption
    		 304
    Extended Instructions
    		 969
    Floating Point Maths
    		 1,991
    Integer Maths
    		 2,391
    Physics
    		 108
    Prime Numbers
    		 6
    Single Threaded
    		 616
    String Sorting
    		 1,340

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 493
    Database Operations
    		 402
    Memory Latency
    		 155
    Memory Read Cached
    		 7,360
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 2,619
    Memory Write
    		 2,825

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 241.61 266.49 1.10×
    bitops
    		 36,095 69,986 1.94×
    branch
    		 47,203 91,349 1.94×
    funccall
    		 174.9 322.58 1.84×
    funcret
    		 3,510 6,724 1.92×
    hash
    		 41,827 79,793 1.91×
    intmath
    		 7,285 13,521 1.86×
    nop
    		 66,737 128,888 1.93×
    prime
    		 115,112 231,690 2.01×
    rotate
    		 30,546 59,094 1.93×
    str
    		 221,573 418,761 1.89×
    wcs
    		 137,653 269,458 1.96×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 759.91 1,460 1.92×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 168.77 329.89 1.95×
    zlib
    		 13.54 29.3 2.16×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 5,660 9,813 1.73×
    clone
    		 220.99 169.5 0.77×
    context
    		 617.75 1,168 1.89×
    cpu-sched
    		 69.86 132.49 1.90×
    eventfd
    		 13,589 48,323 3.56×
    fault
    		 2,358 3,934 1.67×
    fork
    		 1,776 2,124 1.20×
    getrandom
    		 14,006 27,224 1.94×
    hrtimers
    		 58,041 73,906 1.27×
    mprotect
    		 163,183 178,560 1.09×
    mtx
    		 14,225,474 38,841,291 2.73×
    munmap
    		 1,116 1,670 1.50×
    null
    		 75,427 147,223 1.95×
    pipe
    		 286,884 218,937 0.76×
    priv-instr
    		 161,687 298,217 1.84×
    resched
    		 85,953 68,715 0.80×
    switch
    		 51,167 135,509 2.65×
    timermix
    		 55,960 140,930 2.52×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 2,074 2,089 1.01×
    tsc
    		 324,267 623,007 1.92×
    usersyscall
    		 98,432 187,389 1.90×
    vdso
    		 24,416,268 47,185,129 1.93×
    vfork
    		 8,554 12,412 1.45×
    x86syscall
    		 708,674 1,363,887 1.92×
    yield
    		 410,194 429,871 1.05×
    zero
    		 468,763 902,317 1.92×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 4,802 9,196 1.92×
    expmath
    		 858.47 1,635 1.90×
    fma
    		 189,829 364,798 1.92×
    fp
    		 40.77 76.15 1.87×
    fractal
    		 1.8 3.2 1.78×
    hyperbolic
    		 959.68 1,835 1.91×
    logmath
    		 1,663 3,101 1.86×
    matrix
    		 1,245 2,452 1.97×
    matrix-3d
    		 247.95 374.69 1.51×
    monte-carlo
    		 42.07 84.07 2.00×
    mpfr
    		 429.88 792.38 1.84×
    powmath
    		 577.65 1,079 1.87×
    trig
    		 585.71 1,124 1.92×
    veccmp
    		 4,065 7,948 1.96×
    vecfp
    		 266.27 513.53 1.93×
    vecmath
    		 677.71 1,312 1.94×
    vecshuf
    		 170.56 329.48 1.93×
    vecwide
    		 7,617 14,656 1.92×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 2 4 2.00×
    bsearch
    		 69.63 135.75 1.95×
    bubblesort
    		 0.2 0.4 2.00×
    fibsearch
    		 89.76 171.06 1.91×
    heapsort
    		 2.6 4.8 1.85×
    hsearch
    		 1,192 2,297 1.93×
    insertionsort
    		 2.6 4.8 1.85×
    malloc
    		 492,884 1,449,576 2.94×
    mcontend
    		 124.2 168.45 1.36×
    mergesort
    		 9.2 17.79 1.93×
    qsort
    		 5.79 10.6 1.83×
    skiplist
    		 1,856 3,549 1.91×
    tree
    		 0.4 0.4 1.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 62,729 81,802 1.30×
    cachehammer
    		 162,343 311,211 1.92×
    cacheline
    		 12.06 17.01 1.41×
    l1cache
    		 68.61 132.16 1.93×
    memcpy
    		 156.58 305.88 1.95×
    memrate
    		 0.37 0.74 2.00×
    memthrash
    		 42.4 44.45 1.05×
    ptr-chase
    		 5,318,656 10,817,617 2.03×
    spinmem
    		 29.36 11.39 0.39×
    stream
    		 9.1 35.87 3.94×
    vm
    		 7,791 16,409 2.11×

    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

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