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 0.0284 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
2026-10-24T15:35:47.606789

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0301 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.066 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0305 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0317 USD/h 0.141 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0328 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0334 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0579 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0284 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0346 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0346 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0347 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0358 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0362 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0377 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0377 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0379 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0404 USD/h 0.18 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0418 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0418 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0424 USD/h 0.189 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0426 USD/h 0.19 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0431 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0431 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0431 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0441 USD/h 0.196 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0453 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0469 USD/h 0.209 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0496 USD/h 0.221 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0505 USD/h 0.225 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0506 USD/h 0.225 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0555 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    102 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    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 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.14 50.00% 50.00% -63.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,652,055 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.14 20.00% 20.00% -33.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 930 2,416 0.39 10.00% 10.00% -9.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 32,005 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.29 10.00% 10.00% -12.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,513 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,029

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,896

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2,434
    Compression
    		 29,891
    Encryption
    		 760
    Extended Instructions
    		 2,383
    Floating Point Maths
    		 4,938
    Integer Maths
    		 5,864
    Physics
    		 321
    Prime Numbers
    		 19
    Single Threaded
    		 1,513
    String Sorting
    		 3,585

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 933
    Database Operations
    		 1,111
    Memory Latency
    		 61
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18,229
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7,193
    Memory Write
    		 7,352

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 236.56 230.62 0.97×
    bitops
    		 98,787 195,062 1.97×
    branch
    		 136,236 268,495 1.97×
    funccall
    		 480.59 942.5 1.96×
    funcret
    		 9,975 19,496 1.95×
    hash
    		 111,341 218,105 1.96×
    intmath
    		 19,554 38,341 1.96×
    nop
    		 168,789 327,456 1.94×
    prime
    		 280,390 546,118 1.95×
    rotate
    		 85,339 167,103 1.96×
    str
    		 648,738 1,265,116 1.95×
    wcs
    		 407,828 807,941 1.98×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,158 4,229 1.96×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 529.98 1,029 1.94×
    zlib
    		 38.76 63.72 1.64×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 17,681 33,592 1.90×
    clone
    		 942.81 955.59 1.01×
    context
    		 1,721 3,385 1.97×
    cpu-sched
    		 66.4 114.6 1.73×
    eventfd
    		 32,455 142,010 4.38×
    fault
    		 8,457 13,382 1.58×
    fork
    		 3,370 6,994 2.08×
    getrandom
    		 39,252 76,895 1.96×
    hrtimers
    		 198,006 200,163 1.01×
    mprotect
    		 408,090 428,128 1.05×
    mtx
    		 12,379,405 57,851,279 4.67×
    munmap
    		 2,539 4,663 1.84×
    null
    		 180,871 351,959 1.95×
    pipe
    		 795,983 997,177 1.25×
    priv-instr
    		 399,701 768,335 1.92×
    resched
    		 229,230 168,187 0.73×
    switch
    		 64,179 393,444 6.13×
    timermix
    		 167,451 338,708 2.02×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 5,409 5,624 1.04×
    tsc
    		 873,378 1,710,926 1.96×
    usersyscall
    		 271,142 522,335 1.93×
    vdso
    		 65,274,574 128,286,366 1.97×
    vfork
    		 22,160 46,308 2.09×
    x86syscall
    		 2,049,898 4,024,776 1.96×
    yield
    		 1,347,919 1,224,416 0.91×
    zero
    		 1,367,728 2,676,041 1.96×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 14,319 27,875 1.95×
    expmath
    		 2,378 4,662 1.96×
    fma
    		 547,043 1,070,056 1.96×
    fp
    		 144 282.54 1.96×
    fractal
    		 4.6 9 1.96×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,479 4,867 1.96×
    logmath
    		 4,012 7,872 1.96×
    matrix
    		 2,863 5,539 1.93×
    matrix-3d
    		 618.74 974.53 1.58×
    monte-carlo
    		 96.27 191.71 1.99×
    mpfr
    		 1,071 2,082 1.94×
    powmath
    		 1,403 2,747 1.96×
    trig
    		 1,520 2,967 1.95×
    veccmp
    		 13,735 26,655 1.94×
    vecfp
    		 2,001 3,875 1.94×
    vecmath
    		 1,888 3,673 1.95×
    vecshuf
    		 829.36 1,630 1.97×
    vecwide
    		 49,987 98,184 1.96×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 6.4 12.6 1.97×
    bsearch
    		 213.34 418.75 1.96×
    bubblesort
    		 0.6 1.2 2.00×
    fibsearch
    		 216.09 423.66 1.96×
    heapsort
    		 7.8 15.2 1.95×
    hsearch
    		 4,331 8,468 1.96×
    insertionsort
    		 7.2 14 1.94×
    malloc
    		 1,836,282 4,451,840 2.42×
    mcontend
    		 125.25 392.16 3.13×
    mergesort
    		 20.6 39.6 1.92×
    qsort
    		 13.2 25.8 1.95×
    skiplist
    		 4,313 8,454 1.96×
    tree
    		 1.2 2 1.67×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 309,667 303,870 0.98×
    cachehammer
    		 405,276 808,983 2.00×
    cacheline
    		 19.13 36.26 1.90×
    l1cache
    		 200.8 394.36 1.96×
    memcpy
    		 307.25 604.3 1.97×
    memrate
    		 1.17 2.34 2.00×
    memthrash
    		 57.99 94.96 1.64×
    ptr-chase
    		 13,459,770 25,605,234 1.90×
    spinmem
    		 351.58 193.37 0.55×
    stream
    		 27.07 108.57 4.01×
    vm
    		 59,773 202,376 3.39×

    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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