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 0.0136 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
2026-09-16T02:48:23.407866

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0136 USD/h 0.067 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0412 USD/h 0.067 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0138 USD/h 0.0679 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0144 USD/h 0.0705 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0149 USD/h 0.073 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0152 USD/h 0.0747 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0363 USD/h 0.0747 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0149 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0157 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0157 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0157 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0166 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0164 USD/h 0.0804 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0164 USD/h 0.0804 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0171 USD/h 0.084 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0171 USD/h 0.084 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0173 USD/h 0.0847 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0183 USD/h 0.0898 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0189 USD/h 0.093 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0189 USD/h 0.093 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0192 USD/h 0.0944 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0193 USD/h 0.095 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0196 USD/h 0.096 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0196 USD/h 0.0962 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0196 USD/h 0.0962 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.02 USD/h 0.098 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0206 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0214 USD/h 0.105 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0224 USD/h 0.11 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.023 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0231 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0252 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
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    7 GB
    Storages
    • 7 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    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

    0.112Score
    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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0668 50.00% 50.00% -74.20%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 844,758 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.0723 20.00% 20.00% -40.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 682 2,418 0.282 10.00% 10.00% -11.90%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 25,232 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.233 10.00% 10.00% -13.60%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,550 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.656 10.00% 10.00% -4.13%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,012

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,036

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 1422
    Compression
    		 16717
    Encryption
    		 449
    Extended Instructions
    		 1388
    Floating Point Maths
    		 2714
    Integer Maths
    		 3534
    Physics
    		 196
    Prime Numbers
    		 11
    Single Threaded
    		 1550
    String Sorting
    		 2031

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 682
    Database Operations
    		 484
    Memory Latency
    		 95
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21134
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 5519
    Memory Write
    		 5660

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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