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DS14 by Microsoft Azure

DS14 is a DS family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 112 GiB of memory and 229 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2563 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
112 GiB Memory
229 GB Storage
Spare SCore
19924
(All-cores)
1247
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS14
Name
DS14
API Reference
Standard_DS14
Description
DS family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
DS
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-07T04:41:33.272891

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2563 USD/h 1.387 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.8533 USD/h 1.387 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.26 USD/h 1.407 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2698 USD/h 1.46 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2761 USD/h 1.494 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2855 USD/h 1.54 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2712 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.285 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.285 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.285 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.3022 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.7507 USD/h 1.546 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.3077 USD/h 1.665 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.3085 USD/h 1.665 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.3105 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.3105 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.3105 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.3113 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.3131 USD/h 1.694 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.3269 USD/h 1.769 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.3269 USD/h 1.769 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.3435 USD/h 1.859 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3472 USD/h 1.879 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.3557 USD/h 1.925 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.3557 USD/h 1.925 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.357 USD/h 1.932 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.357 USD/h 1.932 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.3613 USD/h 1.955 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.3727 USD/h 2.017 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.3999 USD/h 2.164 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.4322 USD/h 2.331 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.4515 USD/h 2.443 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 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
16
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
112 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
112 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    229 GB
    Storages
    • 229 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-dense virtual server featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and local storage for balanced multi-threaded workloads and database operations.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral PurposeStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure DS14 is an x86_64 server featuring 16 dedicated Intel Xeon 8272CL vCPUs running at 2.6 GHz, paired with 112.0 GB of RAM and 229 GB of local storage. Operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this instance delivers a balanced hardware profile with 7.0 GB of memory per core. Benchmark data reveals weak single-core performance across stress-ng and Geekbench tests, contrasted by average multi-core and memory bandwidth capabilities. The server performs reliably in multi-threaded tasks, database operations, and Redis caching, but struggles with demanding single-threaded applications and large-scale LLM inference. Qualitatively, the DS14 offers a solid resource density for memory-heavy workloads that can tolerate moderate CPU speeds. It is best suited for database hosting, web serving, and general-purpose enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.04Score
    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) 2,111,375 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 1.11 50.00% 50.00% +5.36%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 13,320,004 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 1.15 20.00% 20.00% +2.83%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,466 2,416 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 94,349 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.874 10.00% 10.00% -1.34%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,836 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.776 10.00% 10.00% -2.50%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,077

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,053

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 19915
    Compression
    		 291319
    Encryption
    		 7380
    Extended Instructions
    		 24375
    Floating Point Maths
    		 47007
    Integer Maths
    		 57515
    Physics
    		 1828
    Prime Numbers
    		 120
    Single Threaded
    		 1836
    String Sorting
    		 34481

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2466
    Database Operations
    		 9790
    Memory Latency
    		 58
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21601
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11469
    Memory Write
    		 9536

    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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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    DS1 14 GiB0
    DS2 27 GiB0
    DS11 214 GiB0
    DS3 414 GiB0
    DS12 428 GiB0
    DS4 828 GiB0
    DS13 856 GiB0

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