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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
3765
(All-cores)
1898
(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
DCSv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-01T01:15:57.627856

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
0.0403 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
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 dedicated dual-core x86_64 virtual machine featuring a high memory-to-vCPU ratio for lightweight, memory-intensive workloads.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DC2s_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the DCSv3 family, utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features a dedicated x86_64 Intel Xeon 8370C processor running at 2.8 GHz with 2 vCPUs, 2 physical cores, and 16.0 GB of RAM. The hardware lacks local storage and bundled GPUs. Performance benchmarks show average single-core capabilities, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1660.0, but weak multi-core scaling, as seen in its Geekbench multi-core score of 2998.0. Memory bandwidth is also limited, with large-block write speeds of 19.41 GB/sec. Qualitatively, this server offers a cost-effective option for memory-heavy workloads that do not require intensive parallel computation. It is appropriate for lightweight database operations, single-threaded file compression, text processing, and small-scale language model inference.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,660

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,998

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		4538
    Compression
    		44537
    Encryption
    		2330
    Extended Instructions
    		3500
    Floating Point Maths
    		8629
    Integer Maths
    		10389
    Physics
    		571
    Prime Numbers
    		33
    Single Threaded
    		2434
    String Sorting
    		6249

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2018
    Database Operations
    		2022
    Memory Latency
    		58
    Memory Read Cached
    		24527
    Memory Read Uncached
    		11894
    Memory Write
    		10821

    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

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    DC1s_v3 18 GiB0
    DC4s_v3 432 GiB0
    DC8s_v3 864 GiB0
    DC16s_v3 16128 GiB0
    DC24s_v3 24192 GiB0
    DC32s_v3 32256 GiB0
    DC48s_v3 48384 GiB0

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