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
2026-09-05T16:02:24.990861

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0609 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0611 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1839 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0644 USD/h 0.316 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0649 USD/h 0.319 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0676 USD/h 0.332 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0676 USD/h 0.332 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0676 USD/h 0.332 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0702 USD/h 0.345 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0702 USD/h 0.345 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0702 USD/h 0.345 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0702 USD/h 0.345 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0731 USD/h 0.359 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0731 USD/h 0.359 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0731 USD/h 0.359 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0733 USD/h 0.359 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0746 USD/h 0.366 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1777 USD/h 0.366 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0753 USD/h 0.37 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0753 USD/h 0.37 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0719 USD/h 0.371 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0756 USD/h 0.371 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0756 USD/h 0.371 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0801 USD/h 0.371 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0772 USD/h 0.379 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0772 USD/h 0.379 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0772 USD/h 0.379 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0772 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
0.078 USD/h 0.382 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0399 USD/h 0.399 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0812 USD/h 0.399 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0812 USD/h 0.399 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0812 USD/h 0.399 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0812 USD/h 0.399 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0812 USD/h 0.399 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0817 USD/h 0.401 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0849 USD/h 0.4169 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0849 USD/h 0.417 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.088 USD/h 0.432 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0935 USD/h 0.459 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0935 USD/h 0.459 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0949 USD/h 0.466 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0955 USD/h 0.469 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0955 USD/h 0.469 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0955 USD/h 0.469 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0957 USD/h 0.47 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.101 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1026 USD/h 0.502 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1104 USD/h 0.542 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1104 USD/h 0.5422 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1238 USD/h 0.608 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1244 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
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    57 GB
    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

    0.165Score
    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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0896 50.00% 50.00% -70.10%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,246,462 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.107 20.00% 20.00% -36.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,703 2,418 0.704 10.00% 10.00% -3.45%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,258 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.492 10.00% 10.00% -6.85%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,509 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.638 10.00% 10.00% -4.39%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 818

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,474

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2472
    Compression
    		 30098
    Encryption
    		 773
    Extended Instructions
    		 2375
    Floating Point Maths
    		 5025
    Integer Maths
    		 6036
    Physics
    		 345
    Prime Numbers
    		 19
    Single Threaded
    		 1509
    String Sorting
    		 3596

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1703
    Database Operations
    		 1133
    Memory Latency
    		 60
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18591
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7827
    Memory Write
    		 7816

    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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