DS12-2_v2 by Microsoft Azure

DS12-2_v2 is a DSv2 family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 28 GiB of memory and 57 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0399 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
28 GiB Memory
57 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2,067
(All-cores)
1,049
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS12-2_v2
Name
DS12-2_v2
API Reference
Standard_DS12-2_v2
Description
DSv2 family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
DSv2
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-20T17:13:07.226442

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0671 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0673 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1472 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0709 USD/h 0.316 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0716 USD/h 0.319 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0745 USD/h 0.332 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0745 USD/h 0.332 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0745 USD/h 0.332 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0774 USD/h 0.345 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0774 USD/h 0.345 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0774 USD/h 0.345 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0774 USD/h 0.345 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0806 USD/h 0.359 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0806 USD/h 0.359 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0806 USD/h 0.359 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0808 USD/h 0.359 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0822 USD/h 0.366 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1422 USD/h 0.366 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.083 USD/h 0.37 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.083 USD/h 0.37 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0685 USD/h 0.371 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0833 USD/h 0.371 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0833 USD/h 0.371 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0863 USD/h 0.371 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.085 USD/h 0.379 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.085 USD/h 0.379 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.085 USD/h 0.379 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.085 USD/h 0.379 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.379 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.379 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0859 USD/h 0.382 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0399 USD/h 0.399 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0895 USD/h 0.399 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0895 USD/h 0.399 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0895 USD/h 0.399 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0895 USD/h 0.399 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0895 USD/h 0.399 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.09 USD/h 0.401 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0936 USD/h 0.4169 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0936 USD/h 0.417 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.097 USD/h 0.432 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.103 USD/h 0.459 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.103 USD/h 0.459 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1046 USD/h 0.466 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1052 USD/h 0.469 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1052 USD/h 0.469 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1052 USD/h 0.469 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1055 USD/h 0.47 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1114 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.113 USD/h 0.502 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1217 USD/h 0.542 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1217 USD/h 0.5422 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1364 USD/h 0.608 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1371 USD/h 0.611 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
28 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
28 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    57 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 57 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual server featuring high memory density relative to compute resources for lightweight, memory-bound workloads.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DS12-2_v2 is an x86_64 virtual server in the DSv2 family, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. It is configured with 2 dedicated vCPUs on an Intel Xeon 8171M processor clocked at 2.6 GHz, 28.0 GB of RAM, and 57 GB of local storage. The instance features a high memory-to-core ratio of 14.0 GB per core but exhibits constrained processing capabilities. Benchmarks place its single-core and multi-core CPU performance in the bottom 25% and 10% respectively, with memory bandwidth also scoring in the lower tiers. However, it achieves average performance in text generation for small language models. Given the high memory density relative to its limited compute power, the DS12-2_v2 is best suited for memory-intensive, low-compute workloads such as small databases, caching, and basic memory-bound applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.16Score
    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) 171,871 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.089 50.00% 50.00% -70.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,246,462 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.1 20.00% 20.00% -37.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,703 2,417 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,258 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.48 10.00% 10.00% -7.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,509 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 818

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,474

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2,472
    Compression
    		 30,098
    Encryption
    		 773
    Extended Instructions
    		 2,375
    Floating Point Maths
    		 5,025
    Integer Maths
    		 6,036
    Physics
    		 345
    Prime Numbers
    		 19
    Single Threaded
    		 1,509
    String Sorting
    		 3,596

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,703
    Database Operations
    		 1,133
    Memory Latency
    		 60
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18,591
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7,827
    Memory Write
    		 7,816

    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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