B2pls_v2 by Microsoft Azure

B2pls_v2 is a Bpsv2 family [ARM 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 0.0202 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,614
(All-cores)
1,822
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_B2pls_v2
Name
B2pls_v2
API Reference
Standard_B2pls_v2
Description
Bpsv2 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 2 vCPUs
Family
Bpsv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
16
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-15T17:40:07.553603

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0202 USD/h 0.0224 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.0224 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.0224 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.027 USD/h 0.03 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0302 USD/h 0.0336 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0302 USD/h 0.0336 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0302 USD/h 0.0336 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0302 USD/h 0.0336 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.031 USD/h 0.0344 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0331 USD/h 0.0368 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0331 USD/h 0.0368 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0338 USD/h 0.0376 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0338 USD/h 0.0376 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0301 USD/h 0.038 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0346 USD/h 0.0384 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0346 USD/h 0.0384 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.036 USD/h 0.04 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0363 USD/h 0.0403 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0363 USD/h 0.0403 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.038 USD/h 0.0422 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0382 USD/h 0.0424 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0382 USD/h 0.0424 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0389 USD/h 0.0432 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0418 USD/h 0.0464 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Burstable
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
Ampere
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-N1
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, lrcpc, dcpop, asimddp
Ecpus
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A burstable, cost-efficient ARM64 virtual machine with dual cores and low memory footprint for lightweight, variable workloads.

    Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure B2pls_v2 is a burstable virtual machine from the Bpsv2 family, utilizing the ARM64 architecture with an Ampere Neoverse-N1 processor. It is configured with 2 physical cores, 2 vCPUs, and 4.0 GB of RAM, with no bundled local storage. Operating at 3.0 GHz, the processor supports AES cryptography but lacks AVX and AMX extensions. Benchmarks indicate modest performance, with average single-core stress-ng results but weak multi-core and poor memory bandwidth metrics. The server is a cost-effective choice for low-intensity, bursty workloads such as lightweight static web serving, minor database operations, and basic development tasks. It is not suited for memory-intensive applications or high-performance computing due to its resource constraints and weak multi-threaded performance.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.183Score
    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) 234,167 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.122 50.00% 50.00% -65.10%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,646,428 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.141 20.00% 20.00% -32.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 858.1 2,418 0.355 10.00% 10.00% -9.84%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 43,239 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.4 10.00% 10.00% -8.76%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,332 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.563 10.00% 10.00% -5.58%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,111

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,010

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 1597
    Compression
    		 10376
    Encryption
    		 322
    Extended Instructions
    		 1483
    Floating Point Maths
    		 7131
    Integer Maths
    		 9365
    Physics
    		 371
    Prime Numbers
    		 18
    Single Threaded
    		 1332
    String Sorting
    		 6751

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 858
    Database Operations
    		 1397
    Memory Latency
    		 72
    Memory Read Cached
    		 11375
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8748
    Memory Write
    		 15004

    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

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    B2pts_v2 21 GiB0
    B2ps_v2 28 GiB0
    B4pls_v2 48 GiB0
    B4ps_v2 416 GiB0
    B8pls_v2 816 GiB0
    B8ps_v2 832 GiB0
    B16pls_v2 1632 GiB0

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