A2m_v2 by Microsoft Azure

A2m_v2 is a Av2 family [Memory Intensive] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 20 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0138 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
20 GB Storage
Spare SCore
670
(All-cores)
344
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_A2m_v2
Name
A2m_v2
API Reference
Standard_A2m_v2
Description
Av2 family [Memory Intensive] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
Av2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
26
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-30T13:08:39.212908

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0183 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0183 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0203 USD/h 0.11 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0209 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0209 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0209 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0209 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0209 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0209 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0209 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0209 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0209 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0214 USD/h 0.116 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0214 USD/h 0.116 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0197 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.022 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.022 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.022 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.022 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.022 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.022 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.022 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0221 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0233 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0341 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0456 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0198 USD/h 0.124 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0229 USD/h 0.124 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0229 USD/h 0.124 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0229 USD/h 0.124 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.024 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.024 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.024 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.13 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.13 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0242 USD/h 0.131 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0246 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0246 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0138 USD/h 0.138 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0255 USD/h 0.138 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0255 USD/h 0.138 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0255 USD/h 0.138 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0255 USD/h 0.138 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0255 USD/h 0.138 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0255 USD/h 0.138 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0272 USD/h 0.147 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0272 USD/h 0.147 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0275 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0275 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0299 USD/h 0.162 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0299 USD/h 0.162 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0299 USD/h 0.162 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0308 USD/h 0.166 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0331 USD/h 0.179 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0499 USD/h 0.27 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
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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

    A memory-intensive virtual machine featuring an 8:1 RAM-to-vCPU ratio and local storage for entry-level, memory-reliant workloads.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure A2m_v2 is a memory-intensive virtual machine within the Av2 family, utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is equipped with an Intel Xeon 8171M x86_64 processor running at 2.6 GHz, featuring 2 dedicated physical cores (2 vCPUs) and a 50 MB L3 cache. The server includes 16.0 GB of RAM, providing 8.0 GB per core, and is bundled with 20 GB of local storage. Benchmark results place its compute and memory performance in the lower tier, with a PassMark CPU score of 954.55 and a memory score of 671.42. It delivers 1.0 million operations per second in Redis SET tests and a static web serving throughput of 0.89 GB/sec. This configuration is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-reliant workloads with low compute demands, making it suitable for lightweight database operations, basic caching, and low-traffic web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.062Score
    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) 66,494 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.035 50.00% 50.00% -81.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 554,828 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.046 20.00% 20.00% -46.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 670 2,416 0.28 10.00% 10.00% -12.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 11,440 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.1 10.00% 10.00% -21.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 610 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.25 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 364

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 657

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 955
    Compression
    		 11,292
    Encryption
    		 304
    Extended Instructions
    		 973
    Floating Point Maths
    		 1,984
    Integer Maths
    		 2,382
    Physics
    		 108
    Prime Numbers
    		 6
    Single Threaded
    		 615
    String Sorting
    		 1,401

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 671
    Database Operations
    		 442
    Memory Latency
    		 154
    Memory Read Cached
    		 7,119
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 3,228
    Memory Write
    		 3,232

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 255.48 235 0.92×
    bitops
    		 36,588 71,274 1.95×
    branch
    		 47,808 93,181 1.95×
    funccall
    		 165.03 317.8 1.93×
    funcret
    		 3,339 6,186 1.85×
    hash
    		 39,077 75,524 1.93×
    intmath
    		 6,543 12,664 1.94×
    nop
    		 55,423 107,141 1.93×
    prime
    		 102,387 199,321 1.95×
    rotate
    		 30,249 58,465 1.93×
    str
    		 207,376 397,886 1.92×
    wcs
    		 139,482 272,199 1.95×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 714.12 1,380 1.93×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 164.53 313.73 1.91×
    zlib
    		 18.32 30.72 1.68×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 5,978 10,489 1.75×
    clone
    		 515.12 710.48 1.38×
    context
    		 610.94 1,173 1.92×
    cpu-sched
    		 66.97 118.7 1.77×
    eventfd
    		 14,007 47,793 3.41×
    fault
    		 2,242 3,953 1.76×
    fork
    		 1,727 2,001 1.16×
    getrandom
    		 13,584 26,178 1.93×
    hrtimers
    		 79,226 69,495 0.88×
    mprotect
    		 140,941 149,004 1.06×
    mtx
    		 12,772,292 31,453,700 2.46×
    munmap
    		 968.97 1,378 1.42×
    null
    		 63,515 122,053 1.92×
    pipe
    		 249,124 184,565 0.74×
    priv-instr
    		 143,177 275,893 1.93×
    resched
    		 80,280 59,723 0.74×
    switch
    		 44,416 131,404 2.96×
    timermix
    		 74,155 122,577 1.65×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 2,091 2,076 0.99×
    tsc
    		 311,461 602,930 1.94×
    usersyscall
    		 97,554 188,702 1.93×
    vdso
    		 24,465,201 46,530,926 1.90×
    vfork
    		 8,737 12,509 1.43×
    x86syscall
    		 734,589 1,434,833 1.95×
    yield
    		 445,257 433,254 0.97×
    zero
    		 485,331 941,846 1.94×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 4,517 8,746 1.94×
    expmath
    		 824.6 1,574 1.91×
    fma
    		 190,028 366,430 1.93×
    fp
    		 40.77 77.98 1.91×
    fractal
    		 1.6 3.2 2.00×
    hyperbolic
    		 874.52 1,729 1.98×
    logmath
    		 1,407 2,712 1.93×
    matrix
    		 1,153 2,239 1.94×
    matrix-3d
    		 180.95 306.23 1.69×
    monte-carlo
    		 32.38 64.48 1.99×
    mpfr
    		 353.19 675.63 1.91×
    powmath
    		 488.91 939.96 1.92×
    trig
    		 578.5 1,111 1.92×
    veccmp
    		 3,934 7,889 2.01×
    vecfp
    		 265.34 515.97 1.94×
    vecmath
    		 676.64 1,304 1.93×
    vecshuf
    		 168.74 327.72 1.94×
    vecwide
    		 7,687 14,819 1.93×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 2 4 2.00×
    bsearch
    		 71.06 137.25 1.93×
    bubblesort
    		 0.2 0.4 2.00×
    fibsearch
    		 83.43 160.95 1.93×
    heapsort
    		 2.4 4.4 1.83×
    hsearch
    		 1,182 2,334 1.98×
    insertionsort
    		 2.4 4.6 1.92×
    malloc
    		 401,281 1,050,905 2.62×
    mcontend
    		 120.04 165.08 1.38×
    mergesort
    		 7.8 14.79 1.90×
    qsort
    		 5.6 10.6 1.89×
    skiplist
    		 1,807 3,468 1.92×
    tree
    		 0.2 0.4 2.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 66,727 81,414 1.22×
    cachehammer
    		 171,043 321,351 1.88×
    cacheline
    		 9.08 20.89 2.30×
    l1cache
    		 58.48 112.37 1.92×
    memcpy
    		 130.87 252.41 1.93×
    memrate
    		 0.38 0.75 1.97×
    memthrash
    		 41.82 45.87 1.10×
    ptr-chase
    		 4,457,134 8,107,751 1.82×
    spinmem
    		 32.18 6.4 0.20×
    stream
    		 10.05 38.78 3.86×
    vm
    		 11,828 19,132 1.62×

    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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