B2als_v2 by Microsoft Azure

B2als_v2 is a Basv2 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.011 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2,701
(All-cores)
2,701
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_B2als_v2
Name
B2als_v2
API Reference
Standard_B2als_v2
API Reference Object
-
Description
Basv2 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 2 vCPUs
Family
Basv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
20
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-18T21:22:43.967745

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0221 USD/h 0.0246 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.0246 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.0246 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0338 USD/h 0.0376 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0338 USD/h 0.0376 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0338 USD/h 0.0376 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0338 USD/h 0.0376 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0338 USD/h 0.0376 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.035 USD/h 0.0389 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0367 USD/h 0.0408 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.011 USD/h 0.0414 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0376 USD/h 0.0418 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0376 USD/h 0.0418 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0338 USD/h 0.0425 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0382 USD/h 0.0425 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0382 USD/h 0.0425 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0296 USD/h 0.0428 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0296 USD/h 0.0428 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0386 USD/h 0.0429 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0386 USD/h 0.0429 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0388 USD/h 0.0431 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0298 USD/h 0.0432 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0298 USD/h 0.0432 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0389 USD/h 0.0432 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0389 USD/h 0.0432 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0389 USD/h 0.0432 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0389 USD/h 0.0432 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0401 USD/h 0.0446 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0406 USD/h 0.0451 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0406 USD/h 0.0451 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0406 USD/h 0.0451 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.041 USD/h 0.0455 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0421 USD/h 0.0468 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0425 USD/h 0.0472 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0428 USD/h 0.0475 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0428 USD/h 0.0475 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0428 USD/h 0.0475 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0428 USD/h 0.0475 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0428 USD/h 0.0475 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0433 USD/h 0.0481 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0439 USD/h 0.0488 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.044 USD/h 0.0489 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.044 USD/h 0.0489 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0441 USD/h 0.049 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0441 USD/h 0.049 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0449 USD/h 0.0499 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0363 USD/h 0.0526 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0473 USD/h 0.0526 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0477 USD/h 0.053 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0498 USD/h 0.0553 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0506 USD/h 0.0562 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0528 USD/h 0.0587 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0544 USD/h 0.0605 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0556 USD/h 0.0618 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0556 USD/h 0.0618 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0571 USD/h 0.0635 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0708 USD/h 0.0787 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Burstable
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
3.525 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7763
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, arat, umip, vaes, vpclmulqdq, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
1
Scalability
50

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

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A low-cost, burstable virtual machine with strong single-core performance and a compact memory footprint for light workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure B2als_v2 is a burstable virtual machine from the Basv2 family, featuring 2 vCPUs and 4.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an AMD EPYC 7763 processor running at 3.525 GHz on a single physical core, this x86_64 server is designed for entry-level workloads. It lacks local storage and GPU accelerators but supports premium storage. Benchmarks indicate strong single-core CPU performance, though multi-core execution, memory bandwidth, and database operations are highly constrained, placing them in the lower performance tiers. This server represents a cost-effective option for workloads with variable CPU demands, such as light web serving, basic automation, and development environments.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.16Score
      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) 158,379 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.084 50.00% 50.00% -71.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,216,101 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.1 20.00% 20.00% -37.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,093 2,417 0.46 10.00% 10.00% -7.50%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 65,017 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.59 10.00% 10.00% -5.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,333 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,533

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,962

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3129
      Compression
      		 32260
      Encryption
      		 2155
      Extended Instructions
      		 1769
      Floating Point Maths
      		 4583
      Integer Maths
      		 8254
      Physics
      		 394
      Prime Numbers
      		 20
      Single Threaded
      		 2333
      String Sorting
      		 4503

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1093
      Database Operations
      		 978
      Memory Latency
      		 61
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24205
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 18943
      Memory Write
      		 19253

      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

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYAccelerators
      B2ats_v2 21 GiB0
      B2as_v2 28 GiB0
      B4als_v2 48 GiB0
      B4as_v2 416 GiB0
      B8als_v2 816 GiB0
      B8as_v2 832 GiB0
      B16als_v2 1632 GiB0

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