DS14-4_v2 by Microsoft Azure

DS14-4_v2 is a DSv2 family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 112 GiB of memory and 229 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1596 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
112 GiB Memory
229 GB Storage
Spare SCore
4,964
(All-cores)
1,247
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS14-4_v2
Name
DS14-4_v2
API Reference
Standard_DS14-4_v2
Description
DSv2 family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
DSv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
34
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-13T23:49:54.392831

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2684 USD/h 1.196 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2692 USD/h 1.196 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.5887 USD/h 1.196 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2859 USD/h 1.274 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.298 USD/h 1.328 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2985 USD/h 1.33 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2985 USD/h 1.33 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.3097 USD/h 1.38 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.3099 USD/h 1.381 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.3101 USD/h 1.382 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.3101 USD/h 1.382 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.322 USD/h 1.435 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.322 USD/h 1.435 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.322 USD/h 1.435 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.3229 USD/h 1.435 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.3283 USD/h 1.463 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.5684 USD/h 1.463 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2737 USD/h 1.482 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.3326 USD/h 1.482 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.3326 USD/h 1.482 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.3326 USD/h 1.482 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.3449 USD/h 1.482 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.3328 USD/h 1.483 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.3328 USD/h 1.483 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.3402 USD/h 1.516 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.3402 USD/h 1.516 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.3402 USD/h 1.516 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.516 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.516 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.3406 USD/h 1.518 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.3443 USD/h 1.53 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1596 USD/h 1.596 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.3581 USD/h 1.596 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.3581 USD/h 1.596 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.3581 USD/h 1.596 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.3581 USD/h 1.596 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.3581 USD/h 1.596 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.3597 USD/h 1.603 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.3747 USD/h 1.6698 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.3747 USD/h 1.67 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.3873 USD/h 1.726 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.4118 USD/h 1.835 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.4118 USD/h 1.835 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.4187 USD/h 1.866 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.4205 USD/h 1.874 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.4205 USD/h 1.874 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.4205 USD/h 1.874 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.4216 USD/h 1.879 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.4454 USD/h 1.985 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.4522 USD/h 2.009 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.4871 USD/h 2.1706 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.4872 USD/h 2.171 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.5462 USD/h 2.434 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.5482 USD/h 2.443 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
5 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
4
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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-dense virtual machine featuring high RAM-to-vCPU allocation and local storage for memory-intensive, low-compute workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure DS14-4_v2 is a memory-optimized virtual machine featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs on an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor and 112.0 GB of RAM, providing an exceptional 28.0 GB of memory per core. Running on the x86_64 architecture under Microsoft Hyper-V, the instance includes 229 GB of local storage but lacks GPU acceleration. Performance benchmarks reveal a distinct tradeoff: while CPU-bound tasks like stress-ng and Geekbench compile tests score in the bottom 25%, memory bandwidth and database operations perform in the average tier, with Redis SET operations achieving 6.03 million operations per second. This profile makes the DS14-4_v2 qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-intensive, low-compute workloads such as in-memory databases, caching layers, and moderate database operations, while remaining poorly suited for CPU-heavy tasks or large-scale LLM inference.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.36Score
    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) 520,836 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.27 50.00% 50.00% -48.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,461,181 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.29 20.00% 20.00% -22.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,327 2,417 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 52,172 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.47 10.00% 10.00% -7.30%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,741 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,095

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,630

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 5747
    Compression
    		 64544
    Encryption
    		 1833
    Extended Instructions
    		 5526
    Floating Point Maths
    		 12352
    Integer Maths
    		 15003
    Physics
    		 829
    Prime Numbers
    		 50
    Single Threaded
    		 1741
    String Sorting
    		 9019

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2327
    Database Operations
    		 3284
    Memory Latency
    		 53
    Memory Read Cached
    		 17512
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11395
    Memory Write
    		 10494

    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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