DS1 by Microsoft Azure

DS1 is a DS family [Intel processor] 1 vCPU server offered by Microsoft Azure with 1 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 7 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0142 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
7 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1,222
(All-cores)
1,222
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS1
Name
DS1
API Reference
Standard_DS1
Description
DS family [Intel processor] 1 vCPU
Family
DS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
20
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-31T04:55:00.559493

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.015 USD/h 0.067 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.033 USD/h 0.067 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0152 USD/h 0.0679 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0158 USD/h 0.0705 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0164 USD/h 0.073 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0168 USD/h 0.0747 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.029 USD/h 0.0747 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0142 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0173 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0173 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0173 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0179 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0181 USD/h 0.0804 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0181 USD/h 0.0804 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0188 USD/h 0.084 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0188 USD/h 0.084 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.019 USD/h 0.0847 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0202 USD/h 0.0898 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0209 USD/h 0.093 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0209 USD/h 0.093 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0212 USD/h 0.0944 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0213 USD/h 0.095 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0216 USD/h 0.096 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0216 USD/h 0.0962 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0216 USD/h 0.0962 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0221 USD/h 0.098 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0227 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0236 USD/h 0.105 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0247 USD/h 0.11 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0254 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0254 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0278 USD/h 0.124 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
1
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8272CL
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 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, 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
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    7 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 7 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A single-core virtual machine with dedicated CPU allocation and bundled local storage for entry-level utility workloads and basic testing.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DS1 is an entry-level virtual machine within the DS family, utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features a single dedicated x86_64 vCPU from an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz, paired with 4.0 GB of memory and 7 GB of bundled local storage. Performance benchmarks place this instance in the lower tiers, with a stress-ng CPU score of 1221.58 and a Geekbench single-core score of 1012.0. Memory bandwidth is limited, reaching 10.48 GB/sec for uncached large block reads. Due to its single-core limitation and 4.0 GB memory capacity, the DS1 is constrained for parallel computing or heavy database tasks. It offers a low-cost, dedicated-CPU option for lightweight workloads, making it suitable for static web serving, basic text processing, and small-scale development or testing environments.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.11Score
    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) 128,084 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.068 50.00% 50.00% -74.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 844,758 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.07 20.00% 20.00% -41.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 680 2,416 0.28 10.00% 10.00% -12.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 25,232 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.23 10.00% 10.00% -14.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,550 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,012

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,036

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 1,422
    Compression
    		 16,717
    Encryption
    		 449
    Extended Instructions
    		 1,388
    Floating Point Maths
    		 2,714
    Integer Maths
    		 3,534
    Physics
    		 196
    Prime Numbers
    		 11
    Single Threaded
    		 1,550
    String Sorting
    		 2,031

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 682
    Database Operations
    		 484
    Memory Latency
    		 95
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,134
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 5,519
    Memory Write
    		 5,660

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 561.64 561.64 1.00×
    bitops
    		 97,019 97,019 1.00×
    branch
    		 133,865 133,865 1.00×
    funccall
    		 467.16 467.16 1.00×
    funcret
    		 9,715 9,715 1.00×
    hash
    		 108,261 108,261 1.00×
    intmath
    		 19,181 19,181 1.00×
    nop
    		 164,086 164,086 1.00×
    prime
    		 273,766 273,766 1.00×
    rotate
    		 83,069 83,069 1.00×
    str
    		 629,269 629,269 1.00×
    wcs
    		 405,341 405,341 1.00×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,095 2,095 1.00×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 495.33 495.33 1.00×
    zlib
    		 37.59 37.59 1.00×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 19,062 19,062 1.00×
    clone
    		 627.7 627.7 1.00×
    context
    		 1,697 1,697 1.00×
    cpu-sched
    		 63.03 63.03 1.00×
    eventfd
    		 75,964 75,964 1.00×
    fault
    		 9,632 9,632 1.00×
    fork
    		 4,753 4,753 1.00×
    getrandom
    		 38,175 38,175 1.00×
    hrtimers
    		 118,190 118,190 1.00×
    mprotect
    		 226,426 226,426 1.00×
    mtx
    		 42,568,776 42,568,776 1.00×
    munmap
    		 2,979 2,979 1.00×
    null
    		 177,227 177,227 1.00×
    pipe
    		 522,656 522,656 1.00×
    priv-instr
    		 390,991 390,991 1.00×
    resched
    		 15,424 15,424 1.00×
    switch
    		 189,264 189,264 1.00×
    timermix
    		 171,749 171,749 1.00×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 3,115 3,115 1.00×
    tsc
    		 847,157 847,157 1.00×
    usersyscall
    		 269,269 269,269 1.00×
    vdso
    		 63,473,605 63,473,605 1.00×
    vfork
    		 39,947 39,947 1.00×
    x86syscall
    		 2,005,858 2,005,858 1.00×
    yield
    		 603,445 603,445 1.00×
    zero
    		 1,336,191 1,336,191 1.00×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 13,902 13,902 1.00×
    expmath
    		 2,306 2,306 1.00×
    fma
    		 527,783 527,783 1.00×
    fp
    		 139.2 139.2 1.00×
    fractal
    		 4.4 4.4 1.00×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,408 2,408 1.00×
    logmath
    		 3,900 3,900 1.00×
    matrix
    		 2,694 2,694 1.00×
    matrix-3d
    		 581.41 581.41 1.00×
    monte-carlo
    		 95.63 95.63 1.00×
    mpfr
    		 1,040 1,040 1.00×
    powmath
    		 1,369 1,369 1.00×
    trig
    		 1,471 1,471 1.00×
    veccmp
    		 13,243 13,243 1.00×
    vecfp
    		 1,943 1,943 1.00×
    vecmath
    		 1,819 1,819 1.00×
    vecshuf
    		 806.46 806.46 1.00×
    vecwide
    		 48,658 48,658 1.00×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 6.2 6.2 1.00×
    bsearch
    		 209.1 209.1 1.00×
    bubblesort
    		 0.6 0.6 1.00×
    fibsearch
    		 209.95 209.95 1.00×
    heapsort
    		 7.4 7.4 1.00×
    hsearch
    		 4,338 4,338 1.00×
    insertionsort
    		 7 7 1.00×
    malloc
    		 1,604,090 1,604,090 1.00×
    mcontend
    		 288.28 288.28 1.00×
    mergesort
    		 20 20 1.00×
    qsort
    		 12.8 12.8 1.00×
    skiplist
    		 4,197 4,197 1.00×
    tree
    		 1.2 1.2 1.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 261,621 261,621 1.00×
    cachehammer
    		 402,154 402,154 1.00×
    cacheline
    		 14.66 14.66 1.00×
    l1cache
    		 194.43 194.43 1.00×
    memcpy
    		 298.31 298.31 1.00×
    memrate
    		 1.17 1.17 1.00×
    memthrash
    		 48.63 48.63 1.00×
    ptr-chase
    		 14,095,526 14,095,526 1.00×
    spinmem
    		 0.4 0.4 1.00×
    stream
    		 26.23 26.23 1.00×
    vm
    		 55,715 55,715 1.00×

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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