DS14_v2 by Microsoft Azure

DS14_v2 is a DSv2 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 0.1596 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
112 GiB Memory
229 GB Storage
Spare SCore
19,932
(All-cores)
1,247
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS14_v2
Name
DS14_v2
API Reference
Standard_DS14_v2
Description
DSv2 family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
DSv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-31T04:55:00.560220

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
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
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
768 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
20 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
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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An x86_64 virtual machine offering high memory density and balanced multi-core performance for memory-bound enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DS14_v2 is an x86_64 virtual machine featuring 16 dedicated Intel Xeon 8272CL vCPUs, 112.0 GB of RAM, and 229 GB of local storage. Operating on Microsoft Hyper-V, this instance provides a high memory-to-core ratio of 7.0 GB per vCPU. Performance benchmarks indicate a tradeoff, with weak single-core execution but average multi-core and memory bandwidth capabilities. The server achieves a stress-ng multi-core score of 19931.94 and a PassMark CPU score of 17133.93. It is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-intensive workloads that benefit from a large memory footprint without requiring top-tier single-threaded CPU speeds. Suited workloads include database operations, Redis caching, multi-threaded software compilation, and general-purpose enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.1Score
    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) 2,124,265 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 1.1 50.00% 50.00% +4.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 13,559,741 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 1.2 20.00% 20.00% +3.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,217 2,416 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 117,716 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,782 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,105

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,422

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 17,134
    Compression
    		 239,958
    Encryption
    		 6,090
    Extended Instructions
    		 20,635
    Floating Point Maths
    		 39,427
    Integer Maths
    		 47,420
    Physics
    		 1,927
    Prime Numbers
    		 117
    Single Threaded
    		 1,782
    String Sorting
    		 28,645

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,217
    Database Operations
    		 8,751
    Memory Latency
    		 59
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,288
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7,856
    Memory Write
    		 7,879

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 191.68 193.43 1.01×
    bitops
    		 93,317 1,489,580 15.96×
    branch
    		 98,199 1,564,658 15.93×
    funccall
    		 453.76 7,236 15.95×
    funcret
    		 8,608 127,989 14.87×
    hash
    		 106,980 1,734,029 16.21×
    intmath
    		 43,653 695,470 15.93×
    nop
    		 134,160 2,143,087 15.97×
    prime
    		 287,654 4,579,403 15.92×
    rotate
    		 69,872 1,115,994 15.97×
    str
    		 584,297 9,807,994 16.79×
    wcs
    		 447,095 7,012,672 15.68×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,032 32,148 15.82×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 492.15 7,852 15.95×
    zlib
    		 45.34 560.63 12.37×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 17,051 197,537 11.58×
    clone
    		 1,202 10,939 9.10×
    context
    		 1,498 23,824 15.91×
    cpu-sched
    		 63.79 981.85 15.39×
    eventfd
    		 32,297 508,623 15.75×
    fault
    		 9,472 130,276 13.75×
    fork
    		 3,778 33,165 8.78×
    getrandom
    		 34,401 551,101 16.02×
    hrtimers
    		 193,498 1,814,183 9.38×
    mprotect
    		 1,046,507 3,124,673 2.99×
    mtx
    		 13,157,600 488,666,994 37.14×
    munmap
    		 2,819 30,046 10.66×
    null
    		 163,454 2,574,389 15.75×
    pipe
    		 842,000 7,239,308 8.60×
    priv-instr
    		 346,029 5,291,026 15.29×
    resched
    		 4,543,919 1,836,137 0.40×
    switch
    		 87,729 3,542,497 40.38×
    timermix
    		 161,525 2,499,468 15.47×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 9,643 38,915 4.04×
    tsc
    		 640,903 10,220,806 15.95×
    usersyscall
    		 242,688 3,761,183 15.50×
    vdso
    		 65,764,810 1,021,381,079 15.53×
    vfork
    		 22,389 226,376 10.11×
    x86syscall
    		 1,827,447 28,717,914 15.71×
    yield
    		 9,468,025 10,526,394 1.11×
    zero
    		 1,364,032 21,803,551 15.98×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 10,605 168,631 15.90×
    expmath
    		 2,068 33,005 15.96×
    fma
    		 485,918 7,743,674 15.94×
    fp
    		 136.8 2,161 15.80×
    fractal
    		 3.6 56.01 15.56×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,206 35,207 15.96×
    logmath
    		 3,469 55,256 15.93×
    matrix
    		 2,724 43,065 15.81×
    matrix-3d
    		 585.66 4,626 7.90×
    monte-carlo
    		 85.39 1,365 15.99×
    mpfr
    		 1,011 16,065 15.89×
    powmath
    		 1,208 19,264 15.95×
    trig
    		 1,400 22,535 16.10×
    veccmp
    		 14,880 237,279 15.95×
    vecfp
    		 1,093 17,440 15.95×
    vecmath
    		 2,350 37,464 15.94×
    vecshuf
    		 475.99 7,596 15.96×
    vecwide
    		 22,837 364,101 15.94×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 5.8 92.6 15.97×
    bsearch
    		 177 2,821 15.94×
    bubblesort
    		 0.6 9.6 16.00×
    fibsearch
    		 207.46 3,307 15.94×
    heapsort
    		 6.6 105.6 16.00×
    hsearch
    		 5,259 81,331 15.47×
    insertionsort
    		 7.4 119.2 16.11×
    malloc
    		 1,760,991 21,248,893 12.07×
    mcontend
    		 84.07 2,447 29.11×
    mergesort
    		 19.2 306.19 15.95×
    qsort
    		 14.8 235.19 15.89×
    skiplist
    		 3,893 62,124 15.96×
    tree
    		 1 13.4 13.40×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 221,163 393,683 1.78×
    cachehammer
    		 200,907 3,456,245 17.20×
    cacheline
    		 53.35 841.03 15.76×
    l1cache
    		 658.73 10,446 15.86×
    memcpy
    		 291.51 4,657 15.98×
    memrate
    		 1.36 12.43 9.14×
    memthrash
    		 168.8 612.77 3.63×
    ptr-chase
    		 9,278,679 135,855,218 14.64×
    spinmem
    		 280.59 1,046 3.73×
    stream
    		 32.38 3,647 112.63×
    vm
    		 58,794 293,772 5.00×

    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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