D2 by Microsoft Azure

D2 is a D family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 7 GiB of memory and 102 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0273 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
7 GiB Memory
102 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2,442
(All-cores)
1,246
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D2
Name
D2
API Reference
Standard_D2
Description
D family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
D
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-09-09T10:25:55.140864

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0273 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0824 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0277 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0287 USD/h 0.141 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0297 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0303 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0724 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0298 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0314 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0314 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0315 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0333 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0329 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0342 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0342 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0344 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0366 USD/h 0.18 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0379 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0379 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0385 USD/h 0.189 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0387 USD/h 0.19 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0391 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0391 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0391 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.04 USD/h 0.196 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0411 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0426 USD/h 0.209 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.045 USD/h 0.221 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0458 USD/h 0.225 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.046 USD/h 0.225 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0503 USD/h 0.247 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
8272CL
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
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 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
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
7 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
7 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    102 GB
    Storages
    • 102 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 general-purpose server featuring dedicated Intel Xeon cores and local storage for basic computing workloads.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure D2 is an x86_64 general-purpose virtual machine utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is equipped with an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz, offering 2 dedicated physical cores, 2 vCPUs, and 7.0 GB of system memory. The hardware configuration includes 102 GB of local storage but lacks integrated GPUs. Performance benchmarks consistently place the D2 in the lower tiers, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 1896.0 and a Passmark CPU score of 2433.9. Memory bandwidth reaches 23.29 GB/sec for uncached large-block reads. Given these resource constraints and benchmark results, this server is best suited for low-intensity workloads such as basic web serving, development environments, and lightweight background tasks that require dedicated CPU allocation but do not demand high computational throughput.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.19Score
    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) 256,006 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.134 50.00% 50.00% -63.40%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,652,055 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.141 20.00% 20.00% -32.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 932.7 2,418 0.386 10.00% 10.00% -9.08%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 32,005 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.296 10.00% 10.00% -11.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,513 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.64 10.00% 10.00% -4.36%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,029

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,896

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2434
    Compression
    		 29891
    Encryption
    		 760
    Extended Instructions
    		 2383
    Floating Point Maths
    		 4938
    Integer Maths
    		 5864
    Physics
    		 321
    Prime Numbers
    		 19
    Single Threaded
    		 1513
    String Sorting
    		 3585

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 933
    Database Operations
    		 1111
    Memory Latency
    		 61
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18229
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7193
    Memory Write
    		 7352

    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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