DS15_v2 by Microsoft Azure

DS15_v2 is a DSv2 family [Intel processor] 20 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 20 vCPUs, 140 GiB of memory and 287 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1995 USD per hour.
20 vCPU
140 GiB Memory
287 GB Storage
Spare SCore
25,027
(All-cores)
1,246
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS15_v2
Name
DS15_v2
API Reference
Standard_DS15_v2
Description
DSv2 family [Intel processor] 20 vCPUs
Family
DSv2
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-11-01T08:44:18.825211

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.3479 USD/h 1.495 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.3479 USD/h 1.495 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.6623 USD/h 1.495 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.3677 USD/h 1.58 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.3707 USD/h 1.593 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.3863 USD/h 1.66 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.3867 USD/h 1.662 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.3867 USD/h 1.662 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.4014 USD/h 1.725 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.4016 USD/h 1.726 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.4019 USD/h 1.727 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.4019 USD/h 1.727 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.4175 USD/h 1.794 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.4175 USD/h 1.794 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.4175 USD/h 1.794 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.4175 USD/h 1.794 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.4256 USD/h 1.829 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.7106 USD/h 1.829 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.431 USD/h 1.852 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.431 USD/h 1.852 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.3422 USD/h 1.853 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.4312 USD/h 1.853 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.4312 USD/h 1.853 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.4314 USD/h 1.854 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.441 USD/h 1.895 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.441 USD/h 1.895 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.441 USD/h 1.895 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.895 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.895 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.4414 USD/h 1.897 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.4449 USD/h 1.912 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1995 USD/h 1.995 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.4642 USD/h 1.995 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.4642 USD/h 1.995 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.4642 USD/h 1.995 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.4642 USD/h 1.995 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.4642 USD/h 1.995 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.4661 USD/h 2.003 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.4856 USD/h 2.0867 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.4856 USD/h 2.087 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.5022 USD/h 2.158 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.5338 USD/h 2.294 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.5338 USD/h 2.294 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.5427 USD/h 2.332 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.5452 USD/h 2.343 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.5452 USD/h 2.343 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.5452 USD/h 2.343 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.5466 USD/h 2.349 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.5776 USD/h 2.482 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.5845 USD/h 2.512 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.6312 USD/h 2.7127 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.6313 USD/h 2.713 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.7079 USD/h 3.042 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.7107 USD/h 3.054 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
20
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
20
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8370C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
960 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
640 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
25 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
20.1
Scalability
100.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
140 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
140 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    287 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 287 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A dedicated twenty-core x86_64 virtual machine featuring balanced memory capacity and local storage for multi-threaded enterprise workloads.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral PurposeStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure DS15_v2 is a DSv2-family virtual machine configured with 20 dedicated vCPUs and 20 physical cores on an Intel Xeon 8370C processor running at 2.8 GHz. It features 140.0 GB of RAM (7.0 GB per core) and 287 GB of local storage. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this x86_64 instance delivers average multi-core performance, highlighted by a Geekbench multi-core score of 10945.0 and a Redis SET throughput of 29.2 million operations per second. While single-threaded performance and LLM text generation speeds are relatively weak, its memory capacity and dedicated CPU allocation provide stable resource density. The DS15_v2 is well-suited for database operations, multi-threaded software compilation, and general-purpose enterprise workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.3Score
    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) 2,733,846 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 1.4 50.00% 50.00% +18.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 17,573,475 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 1.5 20.00% 20.00% +8.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,708 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 164,608 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,797 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,136

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 10,945

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 24,038
    Compression
    		 364,252
    Encryption
    		 9,230
    Extended Instructions
    		 30,492
    Floating Point Maths
    		 59,599
    Integer Maths
    		 71,702
    Physics
    		 2,362
    Prime Numbers
    		 162
    Single Threaded
    		 1,797
    String Sorting
    		 43,169

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,708
    Database Operations
    		 12,853
    Memory Latency
    		 48
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,709
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,229
    Memory Write
    		 10,057

    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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