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
2026-09-15T23:35:48.792445

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2435 USD/h 1.196 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2443 USD/h 1.196 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.7358 USD/h 1.196 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2594 USD/h 1.274 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2704 USD/h 1.328 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2708 USD/h 1.33 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2708 USD/h 1.33 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.281 USD/h 1.38 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.2812 USD/h 1.381 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2814 USD/h 1.382 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.2814 USD/h 1.382 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2922 USD/h 1.435 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2922 USD/h 1.435 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2922 USD/h 1.435 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.293 USD/h 1.435 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2979 USD/h 1.463 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.7104 USD/h 1.463 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2872 USD/h 1.482 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.3017 USD/h 1.482 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.3017 USD/h 1.482 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.3017 USD/h 1.482 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.3201 USD/h 1.482 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.3019 USD/h 1.483 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.3019 USD/h 1.483 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.3087 USD/h 1.516 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.3087 USD/h 1.516 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.3087 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
0.3091 USD/h 1.518 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.3124 USD/h 1.53 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1596 USD/h 1.596 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.3249 USD/h 1.596 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.3249 USD/h 1.596 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.3249 USD/h 1.596 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.3249 USD/h 1.596 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.3249 USD/h 1.596 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.3264 USD/h 1.603 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.34 USD/h 1.6698 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.34 USD/h 1.67 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.3514 USD/h 1.726 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.3736 USD/h 1.835 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.3736 USD/h 1.835 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.3799 USD/h 1.866 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.3815 USD/h 1.874 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.3815 USD/h 1.874 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.3815 USD/h 1.874 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3826 USD/h 1.879 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.4041 USD/h 1.985 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.4104 USD/h 2.009 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.4419 USD/h 2.1706 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.442 USD/h 2.171 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.4956 USD/h 2.434 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.4974 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
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

    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

    1.05Score
    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 1,917,397 ops/sec 1.11 50.00% 50.00% +5.36%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 13,559,741 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 1.16 20.00% 20.00% +3.01%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,217 2,418 0.917 10.00% 10.00% -0.86%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 117,716 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 1.09 10.00% 10.00% +0.87%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,782 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.754 10.00% 10.00% -2.78%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,105

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,422

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 17134
    Compression
    		 239958
    Encryption
    		 6090
    Extended Instructions
    		 20635
    Floating Point Maths
    		 39427
    Integer Maths
    		 47420
    Physics
    		 1927
    Prime Numbers
    		 117
    Single Threaded
    		 1782
    String Sorting
    		 28645

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2217
    Database Operations
    		 8751
    Memory Latency
    		 59
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21288
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7856
    Memory Write
    		 7879

    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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