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 0.2848 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
112 GiB Memory
229 GB Storage
Spare SCore
19,924
(All-cores)
1,247
(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
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-11-05T08:13:05.721266

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.3228 USD/h 1.387 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.6144 USD/h 1.387 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.3274 USD/h 1.407 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.3397 USD/h 1.46 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.3477 USD/h 1.494 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.3584 USD/h 1.54 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2848 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.3588 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.3588 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.3588 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.3588 USD/h 1.542 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.6006 USD/h 1.546 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.3874 USD/h 1.665 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.3874 USD/h 1.665 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.3909 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.3909 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.3909 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.3909 USD/h 1.68 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.3942 USD/h 1.694 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.4116 USD/h 1.769 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.4116 USD/h 1.769 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.4326 USD/h 1.859 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.4372 USD/h 1.879 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.4479 USD/h 1.925 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.4479 USD/h 1.925 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.4496 USD/h 1.932 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.4496 USD/h 1.932 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.4549 USD/h 1.955 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.4694 USD/h 2.017 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.5036 USD/h 2.164 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.5424 USD/h 2.331 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.5685 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    229 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    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

    1Score
    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 1,938,397 ops/sec 1.1 50.00% 50.00% +4.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 13,320,004 ops/sec 11,810,473 ops/sec 1.1 20.00% 20.00% +1.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,466 2,410 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 94,349 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.85 10.00% 10.00% -1.60%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,836 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,077

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,053

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 19,915
    Compression
    		 291,319
    Encryption
    		 7,380
    Extended Instructions
    		 24,375
    Floating Point Maths
    		 47,007
    Integer Maths
    		 57,515
    Physics
    		 1,828
    Prime Numbers
    		 120
    Single Threaded
    		 1,836
    String Sorting
    		 34,481

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,466
    Database Operations
    		 9,790
    Memory Latency
    		 58
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,601
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,469
    Memory Write
    		 9,536

    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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