DS11 by Microsoft Azure

DS11 is a DS family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 14 GiB of memory and 29 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0352 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
14 GiB Memory
29 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2,475
(All-cores)
1,247
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS11
Name
DS11
API Reference
Standard_DS11
Description
DS family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
DS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-09-12T09:21:48.440822

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0352 USD/h 0.173 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1064 USD/h 0.173 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0359 USD/h 0.176 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0371 USD/h 0.182 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0381 USD/h 0.187 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0392 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0374 USD/h 0.193 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0393 USD/h 0.193 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0393 USD/h 0.193 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0393 USD/h 0.193 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0417 USD/h 0.193 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0937 USD/h 0.193 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0423 USD/h 0.208 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0425 USD/h 0.208 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0428 USD/h 0.21 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0428 USD/h 0.21 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0428 USD/h 0.21 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0429 USD/h 0.21 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0432 USD/h 0.212 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.045 USD/h 0.221 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.045 USD/h 0.221 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0473 USD/h 0.232 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0478 USD/h 0.235 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0491 USD/h 0.241 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0491 USD/h 0.241 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0493 USD/h 0.242 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0493 USD/h 0.242 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0497 USD/h 0.244 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0513 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0552 USD/h 0.271 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0595 USD/h 0.291 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0623 USD/h 0.306 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8171M
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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, ht, 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
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
14 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
14 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    29 GB
    Storages
    • 29 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 virtual machine with moderate memory capacity for entry-level workloads and basic utility hosting.

    General PurposeMemory Optimized

    The Microsoft Azure DS11 is an entry-level virtual machine from the DS family, utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is equipped with a dedicated Intel Xeon 8171M x86_64 processor running at 2.6 GHz, configured with 2 physical cores and 2 vCPUs. The instance features 14.0 GB of system memory (7.0 GB per core) and 29 GB of local storage, with no bundled GPUs. Performance benchmarks place the DS11 in the lower tiers, with weak to poor ratings in CPU and memory bandwidth tests, including Geekbench and stress-ng. It is best suited for lightweight general-purpose applications, basic database operations, and small-scale static web serving where dedicated CPU resources are required but high computational throughput is not critical.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.202Score
    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) 250,901 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.131 50.00% 50.00% -63.80%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,572,904 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.135 20.00% 20.00% -33.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,651 2,418 0.683 10.00% 10.00% -3.74%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 32,387 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.299 10.00% 10.00% -11.40%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,843 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.779 10.00% 10.00% -2.47%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 915

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,634

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2944
    Compression
    		 34974
    Encryption
    		 916
    Extended Instructions
    		 2952
    Floating Point Maths
    		 6018
    Integer Maths
    		 7134
    Physics
    		 403
    Prime Numbers
    		 23
    Single Threaded
    		 1843
    String Sorting
    		 4353

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1651
    Database Operations
    		 1280
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21796
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8580
    Memory Write
    		 7811

    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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