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.

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 0.0104 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 264 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 2010, headquartered in Washington, United States. For more information, visit the Microsoft Azure homepage.

The A2_v2 server is available in 264 availability zones of the following 56 regions: UK South (GB), Australia Central 2 (AU), West US 2 (US), West US 3 (US), Central US (US), West Central US (US), Austria East (AT), Belgium Central (BE), Germany West Central (DE), Poland Central (PL), Spain Central (ES), Sweden Central (SE), West Europe (NL), Italy North (IT), Indonesia Central (ID), Malaysia West (MY), Canada East (CA), East US (US), North Central US (US), South Central US (US), West US (US), Israel Central (IL), UAE North (AE), Qatar Central (QA), Korea South (KR), Norway East (NO), Southeast Asia (SG), Switzerland North (CH), Central India (IN), South India (IN), West India (IN), North Europe (IE), Mexico Central (ZA), South Africa North (ZA), Korea Central (KR), Australia Central (AU), Australia East (AU), Australia Southeast (AU), East Asia (HK), France Central (FR), UK West (GB), Germany North (DE), UAE Central (AE), Japan East (JP), Japan West (JP), New Zealand North (NZ), Norway West (NO), Switzerland West (CH), South Africa West (ZA), Brazil South (BR), Canada Central (CA), France South (FR), East US 2 (US), 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), cpx22 (hcloud), c2d-highcpu-2 (gcp), cx23 (hcloud), n4-highcpu-2 (gcp), n4d-highcpu-2 (gcp), c4-highcpu-2 (gcp).