DS13-2_v2 by Microsoft Azure

DS13-2_v2 is a DSv2 family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 56 GiB of memory and 115 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0798 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
56 GiB Memory
115 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2,688
(All-cores)
1,357
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS13-2_v2
Name
DS13-2_v2
API Reference
Standard_DS13-2_v2
Description
DSv2 family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
DSv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
23
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-09-05T12:45:47.160139

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1218 USD/h 0.598 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1222 USD/h 0.598 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.3679 USD/h 0.598 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1287 USD/h 0.632 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1298 USD/h 0.637 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1352 USD/h 0.664 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1354 USD/h 0.665 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1354 USD/h 0.665 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1405 USD/h 0.69 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1407 USD/h 0.691 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1407 USD/h 0.691 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1407 USD/h 0.691 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1462 USD/h 0.718 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1462 USD/h 0.718 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1462 USD/h 0.718 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1466 USD/h 0.718 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1491 USD/h 0.732 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3555 USD/h 0.732 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1436 USD/h 0.741 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1509 USD/h 0.741 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1509 USD/h 0.741 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1509 USD/h 0.741 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1601 USD/h 0.741 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1511 USD/h 0.742 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1543 USD/h 0.758 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1543 USD/h 0.758 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1543 USD/h 0.758 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.758 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.758 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1545 USD/h 0.759 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1562 USD/h 0.765 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0798 USD/h 0.798 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1625 USD/h 0.798 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1625 USD/h 0.798 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1625 USD/h 0.798 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1625 USD/h 0.798 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1625 USD/h 0.798 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1631 USD/h 0.801 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1701 USD/h 0.8349 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.17 USD/h 0.835 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1757 USD/h 0.863 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1869 USD/h 0.918 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1869 USD/h 0.918 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.19 USD/h 0.933 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1909 USD/h 0.937 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1909 USD/h 0.937 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1909 USD/h 0.937 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1914 USD/h 0.94 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.2022 USD/h 0.993 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2053 USD/h 1.005 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.2209 USD/h 1.085 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.2211 USD/h 1.0857 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2478 USD/h 1.217 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.2488 USD/h 1.222 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
8272CL
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
48 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
56 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
56 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    115 GB
    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 asymmetrical memory-optimized instance pairing a large memory footprint with low compute resources for efficient in-memory caching.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure DS13-2_v2 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs and 56.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor at 2.6 GHz. It includes 115 GB of local storage and runs on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Benchmark data shows weak to poor CPU and memory bandwidth performance, with stress-ng single-core scoring 1356.5 and large-block memory read bandwidth at 19.35 GB/sec. However, it delivers average performance for small-model LLM text generation at 90.73 tokens/sec. Given its high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 28.0 GB per core, this instance is highly cost-efficient for memory-intensive, low-compute workloads such as in-memory databases, caching layers, and lightweight Redis deployments.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.198Score
    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) 253,701 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.132 50.00% 50.00% -63.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,592,277 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.136 20.00% 20.00% -32.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,608 2,418 0.665 10.00% 10.00% -4.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 30,687 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.284 10.00% 10.00% -11.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,560 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.66 10.00% 10.00% -4.07%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,053

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,916

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2480
    Compression
    		 29470
    Encryption
    		 771
    Extended Instructions
    		 2489
    Floating Point Maths
    		 5007
    Integer Maths
    		 5997
    Physics
    		 348
    Prime Numbers
    		 20
    Single Threaded
    		 1560
    String Sorting
    		 3691

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1608
    Database Operations
    		 1123
    Memory Latency
    		 61
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18242
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6611
    Memory Write
    		 7018

    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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