D2ns_v6 by Microsoft Azure

D2ns_v6 is a Dnv6 family [Network Optimized] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0176 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,707
(All-cores)
1,665
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D2ns_v6
Name
D2ns_v6
API Reference
Standard_D2ns_v6
Description
Dnv6 family [Network Optimized] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
Dnv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
14.8
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-10T10:26:16.820734

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0257 USD/h 0.139 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0257 USD/h 0.139 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0257 USD/h 0.139 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0257 USD/h 0.139 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0257 USD/h 0.139 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0293 USD/h 0.139 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0268 USD/h 0.145 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.145 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.145 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0273 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0283 USD/h 0.153 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0286 USD/h 0.155 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0286 USD/h 0.155 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0286 USD/h 0.155 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0299 USD/h 0.162 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0305 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0305 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0305 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0305 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0309 USD/h 0.167 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0309 USD/h 0.167 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0316 USD/h 0.171 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0253 USD/h 0.174 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0322 USD/h 0.174 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0176 USD/h 0.176 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0325 USD/h 0.176 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0325 USD/h 0.176 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0329 USD/h 0.178 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0331 USD/h 0.179 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0334 USD/h 0.181 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0334 USD/h 0.181 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0334 USD/h 0.181 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0334 USD/h 0.181 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0338 USD/h 0.183 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0362 USD/h 0.196 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0368 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0368 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0368 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0368 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0373 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0375 USD/h 0.203 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0395 USD/h 0.214 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0399 USD/h 0.216 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0418 USD/h 0.226 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.044 USD/h 0.238 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0479 USD/h 0.259 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0479 USD/h 0.259 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0488 USD/h 0.264 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0514 USD/h 0.278 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0669 USD/h 0.362 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
4.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8573C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
48 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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

    Server Description

    A network-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated high-frequency single-core performance and balanced memory for lightweight, single-threaded workloads.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure D2ns_v6 is a network-optimized, general-purpose virtual machine powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz. Utilizing the x86_64 architecture under Microsoft Hyper-V, this instance features 2 vCPUs, 8.0 GB of RAM, and no local storage, relying instead on Premium Storage capabilities. Performance benchmarks highlight strong single-core capabilities, with a Geekbench single-core score of 2101.0, alongside average single-threaded compression speeds. However, the instance exhibits weak multi-core scaling and low memory bandwidth, as evidenced by a Geekbench multi-core score of 2590.0 and a large-block read bandwidth of 17.21 GB/sec. Qualitatively, the D2ns_v6 provides a cost-effective option for network-oriented workloads that prioritize single-thread performance over parallel processing, making it suitable for lightweight web serving, microservices, and basic text processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.232Score
    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) 310,471 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.162 50.00% 50.00% -59.80%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,676,924 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.144 20.00% 20.00% -32.10%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,528 2,418 0.632 10.00% 10.00% -4.48%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 30,762 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.284 10.00% 10.00% -11.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,536 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.07 10.00% 10.00% +0.68%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,101

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,590

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 3292
    Compression
    		 32056
    Encryption
    		 1865
    Extended Instructions
    		 2222
    Floating Point Maths
    		 5934
    Integer Maths
    		 8385
    Physics
    		 424
    Prime Numbers
    		 18
    Single Threaded
    		 2536
    String Sorting
    		 4281

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1528
    Database Operations
    		 1273
    Memory Latency
    		 72
    Memory Read Cached
    		 23375
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9755
    Memory Write
    		 9138

    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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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    D32ns_v6 32128 GiB0
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    D64ns_v6 64256 GiB0
    D96ns_v6 96384 GiB0

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