DS12_v2 by Microsoft Azure

DS12_v2 is a DSv2 family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 28 GiB of memory and 57 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0399 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
28 GiB Memory
57 GB Storage
Spare SCore
4,970
(All-cores)
1,247
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS12_v2
Name
DS12_v2
API Reference
Standard_DS12_v2
Description
DSv2 family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
DSv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-09-13T16:46:12.287434

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
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2673 v4
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, md_clear
Ecpus
4
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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An x86_64 virtual machine offering a high memory-to-core ratio and local storage for moderate, memory-intensive workloads.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DS12_v2 is an x86_64 virtual machine from the DSv2 family, utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is equipped with an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processor running at 2.3 GHz, offering 4 dedicated physical cores and 4 vCPUs. The instance features a substantial memory allocation of 28.0 GB (7.0 GB per core) and includes 57 GB of local storage, with no GPU acceleration. Performance benchmarks generally place the instance in the bottom 25%, with weak CPU and memory bandwidth results, though it achieves average speeds in small-scale LLM inference (135M model). Qualitatively, the DS12_v2 provides a high memory-to-vCPU ratio, making it a cost-efficient option for memory-heavy workloads that are not CPU-bound. It is recommended for moderate database caching, lightweight web serving, and small-scale data processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.271Score
    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) 370,138 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.193 50.00% 50.00% -56.10%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,572,915 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.22 20.00% 20.00% -26.10%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,645 2,418 0.68 10.00% 10.00% -3.78%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 37,827 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.35 10.00% 10.00% -9.97%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,637 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.692 10.00% 10.00% -3.61%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 811

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,671

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 4391
    Compression
    		 60685
    Encryption
    		 1116
    Extended Instructions
    		 3657
    Floating Point Maths
    		 10116
    Integer Maths
    		 11899
    Physics
    		 641
    Prime Numbers
    		 43
    Single Threaded
    		 1637
    String Sorting
    		 8268

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1645
    Database Operations
    		 2073
    Memory Latency
    		 70
    Memory Read Cached
    		 17677
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6899
    Memory Write
    		 5747

    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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