DC2s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

DC2s_v3 is a DCSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0207 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,765
(All-cores)
1,898
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DC2s_v3
Name
DC2s_v3
API Reference
Standard_DC2s_v3
Description
DCSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
General Purpose
Series
DCsv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-11-12T13:03:44.066751

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0207 USD/h 0.112 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0213 USD/h 0.115 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0237 USD/h 0.127 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0277 USD/h 0.15 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0305 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0355 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0355 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0423 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0373 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.202 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.202 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0395 USD/h 0.214 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0395 USD/h 0.214 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0401 USD/h 0.217 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.041 USD/h 0.222 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0414 USD/h 0.224 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0425 USD/h 0.23 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0425 USD/h 0.23 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0444 USD/h 0.24 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0444 USD/h 0.24 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0458 USD/h 0.248 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0458 USD/h 0.248 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0501 USD/h 0.271 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0532 USD/h 0.288 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8370C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
48 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, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, sgx, 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, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, sgx_lc, fsrm, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
24 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      Compatible Storage IDs
      PremiumV2_LRS, Premium_LRS, Premium_ZRS, StandardSSD_LRS, StandardSSD_ZRS, Standard_LRS, UltraSSD_LRS
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A dedicated dual-core Intel processor instance featuring a high memory-to-vCPU ratio for lightweight, memory-bound workloads.

      Microsoft Azure DC2s_v3 is a virtual machine from the DCSv3 family, featuring a dedicated Intel Xeon 8370C processor with 2 vCPUs and 2 physical cores running at 2.8 GHz. It is configured with 16.0 GB of memory, providing a high 8.0 GB per core ratio, but includes no local storage or GPUs. Performance benchmarks show average single-core execution, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1660.0 and average small-model LLM inference speeds. However, multi-core capabilities and memory bandwidth are weak, as evidenced by a Geekbench multi-core score of 2998.0 and a large-block memory read speed of 27.83 GB/sec. This instance represents a qualitatively cost-efficient option for memory-heavy workloads that do not require intensive parallel processing. It is best suited for lightweight memory-bound applications, single-threaded data processing, and small-scale text processing workloads.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.34Score
      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) 459,930 ops/sec 1,926,573 ops/sec 0.24 50.00% 50.00% -51.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,700,544 ops/sec 11,810,473 ops/sec 0.23 20.00% 20.00% -25.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,018 2,408 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 62,983 MB/sec 108,674 MB/sec 0.57 10.00% 10.00% -5.50%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,434 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,660

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,998

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 4,538
      Compression
      		 44,537
      Encryption
      		 2,330
      Extended Instructions
      		 3,500
      Floating Point Maths
      		 8,629
      Integer Maths
      		 10,389
      Physics
      		 571
      Prime Numbers
      		 33
      Single Threaded
      		 2,434
      String Sorting
      		 6,249

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,018
      Database Operations
      		 2,022
      Memory Latency
      		 58
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,527
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11,894
      Memory Write
      		 10,821

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 300.06 292.32 0.97×
      bitops
      		 130,755 259,383 1.98×
      branch
      		 137,731 273,090 1.98×
      funccall
      		 637.7 1,257 1.97×
      funcret
      		 12,005 23,332 1.94×
      hash
      		 152,455 299,671 1.97×
      intmath
      		 61,329 120,580 1.97×
      nop
      		 187,768 371,006 1.98×
      prime
      		 394,969 776,329 1.97×
      rotate
      		 98,005 193,510 1.97×
      str
      		 872,361 1,778,290 2.04×
      wcs
      		 627,965 1,191,642 1.90×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,851 5,590 1.96×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 731.04 1,435 1.96×
      zlib
      		 64.44 99.27 1.54×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 37,700 69,328 1.84×
      clone
      		 1,312 1,944 1.48×
      context
      		 5,461 10,767 1.97×
      cpu-sched
      		 69.02 134.34 1.95×
      eventfd
      		 56,338 300,590 5.34×
      fault
      		 14,763 22,758 1.54×
      fork
      		 5,750 10,921 1.90×
      getrandom
      		 50,203 99,044 1.97×
      hrtimers
      		 182,965 371,270 2.03×
      mprotect
      		 858,202 942,566 1.10×
      mtx
      		 14,064,677 105,492,313 7.50×
      munmap
      		 4,257 8,605 2.02×
      null
      		 862,086 1,678,637 1.95×
      pipe
      		 910,887 2,306,665 2.53×
      priv-instr
      		 822,871 1,525,622 1.85×
      resched
      		 547,562 296,095 0.54×
      switch
      		 135,518 714,369 5.27×
      timermix
      		 270,759 521,275 1.93×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 6,666 6,870 1.03×
      tsc
      		 900,089 1,771,659 1.97×
      usersyscall
      		 691,172 1,299,798 1.88×
      vdso
      		 120,027,943 236,959,007 1.97×
      vfork
      		 35,827 79,305 2.21×
      x86syscall
      		 10,817,586 21,269,044 1.97×
      yield
      		 2,415,529 2,398,599 0.99×
      zero
      		 4,646,228 9,063,613 1.95×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,727 29,125 1.98×
      expmath
      		 2,898 5,711 1.97×
      fma
      		 661,456 1,303,393 1.97×
      fp
      		 192 374.24 1.95×
      fractal
      		 5 9.8 1.96×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,074 6,104 1.99×
      logmath
      		 4,790 9,590 2.00×
      matrix
      		 3,798 7,520 1.98×
      matrix-3d
      		 764.03 1,305 1.71×
      monte-carlo
      		 280.49 559.63 2.00×
      mpfr
      		 1,416 2,772 1.96×
      powmath
      		 1,695 3,336 1.97×
      trig
      		 1,983 3,910 1.97×
      veccmp
      		 20,832 41,061 1.97×
      vecfp
      		 1,531 3,021 1.97×
      vecmath
      		 3,294 6,496 1.97×
      vecshuf
      		 667.15 1,313 1.97×
      vecwide
      		 31,474 62,003 1.97×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8 16 2.00×
      bsearch
      		 249.2 492.57 1.98×
      bubblesort
      		 1 2 2.00×
      fibsearch
      		 290.6 572.14 1.97×
      heapsort
      		 9.4 18.6 1.98×
      hsearch
      		 7,153 14,088 1.97×
      insertionsort
      		 10.4 20.8 2.00×
      malloc
      		 2,500,355 5,617,138 2.25×
      mcontend
      		 112.27 352 3.14×
      mergesort
      		 27 53 1.96×
      qsort
      		 20.8 41 1.97×
      skiplist
      		 5,460 10,754 1.97×
      tree
      		 1.6 3.2 2.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 376,282 366,923 0.98×
      cachehammer
      		 354,868 690,294 1.95×
      cacheline
      		 32.51 64.65 1.99×
      l1cache
      		 906.6 1,797 1.98×
      memcpy
      		 409.31 804.94 1.97×
      memrate
      		 1.78 3.16 1.78×
      memthrash
      		 86.24 102.01 1.18×
      ptr-chase
      		 14,952,400 29,877,159 2.00×
      spinmem
      		 371.38 194.75 0.52×
      stream
      		 41.22 153.69 3.73×
      vm
      		 155,296 241,554 1.56×

      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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