DS13 by Microsoft Azure

DS13 is a DS family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 56 GiB of memory and 115 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1424 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
56 GiB Memory
115 GB Storage
Spare SCore
9,940
(All-cores)
1,246
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS13
Name
DS13
API Reference
Standard_DS13
Description
DS family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
DS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
23
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-30T01:11:18.447166

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1557 USD/h 0.694 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.3416 USD/h 0.694 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.158 USD/h 0.704 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1638 USD/h 0.73 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1677 USD/h 0.747 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1733 USD/h 0.77 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1424 USD/h 0.771 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.173 USD/h 0.771 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.173 USD/h 0.771 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.173 USD/h 0.771 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1794 USD/h 0.771 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3003 USD/h 0.773 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1868 USD/h 0.832 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1872 USD/h 0.832 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1885 USD/h 0.84 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1885 USD/h 0.84 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1885 USD/h 0.84 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.189 USD/h 0.84 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1902 USD/h 0.847 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1986 USD/h 0.885 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1986 USD/h 0.885 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2087 USD/h 0.93 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.2107 USD/h 0.939 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.216 USD/h 0.962 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.216 USD/h 0.962 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2168 USD/h 0.966 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2168 USD/h 0.966 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.2193 USD/h 0.977 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.2264 USD/h 1.009 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.2429 USD/h 1.082 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2622 USD/h 1.165 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.274 USD/h 1.221 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 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
8
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
56 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
56 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    115 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 115 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 eight dedicated cores, a high memory-to-core ratio, and integrated local storage for balanced multi-threaded workloads.

    General PurposeMemory Optimized

    Microsoft Azure DS13 is an x86_64 virtual machine powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features 8 dedicated physical cores (8 vCPUs) operating at 2.6 GHz, paired with 56.0 GB of memory and 115 GB of local storage. Benchmark data reveals a distinct performance profile: single-core metrics, such as Geekbench single-core and single-threaded gzip compression, rank in the bottom 25%, whereas multi-core and memory bandwidth benchmarks consistently achieve average, middle-50% results. This resource configuration provides a high memory-to-core ratio of 7.0 GB per core, making it qualitatively cost-efficient for workloads that benefit from larger memory footprints rather than raw single-threaded CPU speed. The instance is suited for database operations, static web serving, software compilation, and general-purpose workloads requiring moderate multi-threaded compute capacity.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.6Score
    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) 1,029,644 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.53 50.00% 50.00% -27.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,441,152 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.53 20.00% 20.00% -12.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,570 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 67,972 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,846 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,052

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 5,751

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11,140
    Compression
    		 145,419
    Encryption
    		 3,690
    Extended Instructions
    		 12,514
    Floating Point Maths
    		 24,088
    Integer Maths
    		 28,795
    Physics
    		 1,342
    Prime Numbers
    		 90
    Single Threaded
    		 1,846
    String Sorting
    		 17,465

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,570
    Database Operations
    		 5,347
    Memory Latency
    		 49
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,632
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,636
    Memory Write
    		 9,421

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 210.54 187.46 0.89×
    bitops
    		 98,865 788,235 7.97×
    branch
    		 136,332 1,084,337 7.95×
    funccall
    		 480.08 3,815 7.95×
    funcret
    		 9,982 79,249 7.94×
    hash
    		 111,480 885,604 7.94×
    intmath
    		 19,731 156,935 7.95×
    nop
    		 168,987 1,340,287 7.93×
    prime
    		 279,585 2,208,906 7.90×
    rotate
    		 84,715 676,181 7.98×
    str
    		 666,546 5,265,695 7.90×
    wcs
    		 426,965 3,304,817 7.74×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,156 17,075 7.92×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 512.88 4,034 7.87×
    zlib
    		 60.38 332.88 5.51×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 18,337 122,284 6.67×
    clone
    		 958.45 4,736 4.94×
    context
    		 1,699 13,701 8.06×
    cpu-sched
    		 66.41 506.64 7.63×
    eventfd
    		 34,020 567,590 16.68×
    fault
    		 8,113 56,225 6.93×
    fork
    		 2,932 18,147 6.19×
    getrandom
    		 39,291 313,343 7.98×
    hrtimers
    		 566,379 1,297,166 2.29×
    mprotect
    		 1,074,059 1,681,111 1.57×
    mtx
    		 11,973,051 321,230,199 26.83×
    munmap
    		 2,287 16,292 7.12×
    null
    		 180,848 1,450,502 8.02×
    pipe
    		 886,620 3,573,716 4.03×
    priv-instr
    		 383,662 3,046,225 7.94×
    resched
    		 1,838,480 879,029 0.48×
    switch
    		 75,986 1,797,558 23.66×
    timermix
    		 173,628 1,333,748 7.68×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 7,926 21,486 2.71×
    tsc
    		 873,464 6,949,918 7.96×
    usersyscall
    		 272,446 2,119,162 7.78×
    vdso
    		 65,411,792 516,605,806 7.90×
    vfork
    		 14,251 104,321 7.32×
    x86syscall
    		 2,003,964 16,075,066 8.02×
    yield
    		 4,704,210 4,824,374 1.03×
    zero
    		 1,344,320 10,523,903 7.83×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 14,332 113,715 7.93×
    expmath
    		 2,374 18,676 7.87×
    fma
    		 571,542 4,149,878 7.26×
    fp
    		 143.88 1,136 7.90×
    fractal
    		 4.6 36 7.83×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,487 19,732 7.93×
    logmath
    		 4,017 31,962 7.96×
    matrix
    		 2,844 22,431 7.89×
    matrix-3d
    		 652.03 1,785 2.74×
    monte-carlo
    		 96.31 766.21 7.96×
    mpfr
    		 1,071 8,516 7.95×
    powmath
    		 1,404 11,185 7.96×
    trig
    		 1,519 12,027 7.92×
    veccmp
    		 13,686 108,730 7.94×
    vecfp
    		 2,006 15,542 7.75×
    vecmath
    		 1,888 14,907 7.90×
    vecshuf
    		 831.09 6,616 7.96×
    vecwide
    		 50,036 395,353 7.90×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 6.4 50.8 7.94×
    bsearch
    		 213.25 1,689 7.92×
    bubblesort
    		 0.6 4.8 8.00×
    fibsearch
    		 216.31 1,710 7.90×
    heapsort
    		 7.8 61.2 7.85×
    hsearch
    		 4,450 34,663 7.79×
    insertionsort
    		 7.2 57.6 8.00×
    malloc
    		 1,265,179 11,955,449 9.45×
    mcontend
    		 100.29 1,359 13.55×
    mergesort
    		 20.6 164 7.96×
    qsort
    		 12.8 102 7.97×
    skiplist
    		 4,310 34,122 7.92×
    tree
    		 1.4 8 5.71×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 243,110 409,520 1.68×
    cachehammer
    		 228,970 1,777,381 7.76×
    cacheline
    		 23.95 211.96 8.85×
    l1cache
    		 198.45 1,587 8.00×
    memcpy
    		 307.24 2,442 7.95×
    memrate
    		 0.98 4.66 4.76×
    memthrash
    		 119.46 269.47 2.26×
    ptr-chase
    		 28,393,284 57,639,876 2.03×
    spinmem
    		 337.78 442.96 1.31×
    stream
    		 31.41 1,184 37.71×
    vm
    		 55,848 291,790 5.22×

    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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