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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
Average Time To Start
19
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-15T01:00:02.596812

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

    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.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    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

    0.342Score
    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 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.241 50.00% 50.00% -50.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,700,544 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.233 20.00% 20.00% -25.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,018 2,416 0.835 10.00% 10.00% -1.79%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 62,983 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.584 10.00% 10.00% -5.24%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,434 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 1.03 10.00% 10.00% +0.30%

    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

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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    DC8s_v3 864 GiB0
    DC16s_v3 16128 GiB0
    DC24s_v3 24192 GiB0
    DC32s_v3 32256 GiB0
    DC48s_v3 48384 GiB0

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