D3 by Microsoft Azure

D3 is a D family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 14 GiB of memory and 205 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0546 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
14 GiB Memory
205 GB Storage
Spare SCore
4,958
(All-cores)
1,246
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D3
Name
D3
API Reference
Standard_D3
Description
D family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
D
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-09-12T18:27:07.437178

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0546 USD/h 0.268 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1649 USD/h 0.268 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0554 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0574 USD/h 0.282 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0595 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0609 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1452 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0597 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0627 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0627 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0629 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0665 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0658 USD/h 0.322 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0684 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0684 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.069 USD/h 0.339 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0731 USD/h 0.359 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0758 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0758 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.077 USD/h 0.378 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0774 USD/h 0.38 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0782 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0784 USD/h 0.385 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0784 USD/h 0.385 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.08 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0821 USD/h 0.403 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0851 USD/h 0.418 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.09 USD/h 0.442 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0919 USD/h 0.45 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0919 USD/h 0.451 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1006 USD/h 0.494 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8171M
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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
4
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A general-purpose instance featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors, bundled local storage, and balanced memory allocation for basic workloads.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure D3 is a general-purpose virtual machine in the D family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8171M processor with 4 dedicated physical cores and 4 vCPUs running at 2.6 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture and managed via Microsoft Hyper-V, the instance features 14.0 GB of RAM (3.5 GB per core) and 205 GB of bundled local storage, with no integrated GPUs. Benchmark results indicate generally weak performance, with single-core and multi-core CPU metrics, memory read bandwidth, and cryptographic operations mostly falling into the bottom 25% or bottom 10% of tested systems. Large block memory write bandwidth and small-model text generation represent areas of average performance. The D3 is best suited for entry-level general-purpose workloads, basic web serving, and lightweight database operations that require dedicated CPU resources but do not demand high-performance computing capabilities.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.314Score
    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) 450,607 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.235 50.00% 50.00% -51.50%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,895,752 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.248 20.00% 20.00% -24.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,425 2,418 0.589 10.00% 10.00% -5.16%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 51,152 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.473 10.00% 10.00% -7.21%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,784 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.755 10.00% 10.00% -2.77%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 912

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,980

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 5669
    Compression
    		 71875
    Encryption
    		 1843
    Extended Instructions
    		 6003
    Floating Point Maths
    		 11131
    Integer Maths
    		 14233
    Physics
    		 676
    Prime Numbers
    		 41
    Single Threaded
    		 1784
    String Sorting
    		 8478

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1425
    Database Operations
    		 2123
    Memory Latency
    		 87
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21619
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6609
    Memory Write
    		 6567

    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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