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DS2 by Microsoft Azure

DS2 is a DS family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 7 GiB of memory and 14 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0248 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
7 GiB Memory
14 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2469
(All-cores)
1246
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS2
Name
DS2
API Reference
Standard_DS2
Description
DS family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
DS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
26
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-23T06:56:21.366947

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0248 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0824 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0251 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0261 USD/h 0.141 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0326 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0275 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0724 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0271 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0285 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0285 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0286 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0302 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0298 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0298 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0312 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0333 USD/h 0.18 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0344 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0344 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0349 USD/h 0.189 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0351 USD/h 0.19 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0325 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0355 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0355 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0363 USD/h 0.196 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0373 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0386 USD/h 0.209 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0408 USD/h 0.221 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0416 USD/h 0.225 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0417 USD/h 0.225 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0456 USD/h 0.247 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
7 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
7 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    14 GB
    Storages
    • 14 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A dedicated dual-core virtual machine with balanced memory and local storage for entry-level computing and development environments.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DS2 is an entry-level, general-purpose virtual machine within the DS family, utilizing the x86_64 architecture under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is equipped with 2 dedicated vCPUs and 2 physical cores from an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz, paired with 7.0 GB of memory and 14 GB of local storage. Benchmark results place the instance's compute and memory performance consistently in the lower tiers, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 1906.0 and a stress-ng multi-core score of 2469.01. The processor supports AVX, AVX512F, and AES instructions but lacks newer deep learning extensions like AMX. This instance is qualitatively positioned as a budget-friendly option for low-intensity workloads, including basic web serving, small databases, and lightweight development or testing environments.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.197Score
    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) 252,242 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.133 50.00% 50.00% -63.50%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,658,078 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.144 20.00% 20.00% -32.10%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 984.4 2,411 0.408 10.00% 10.00% -8.57%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 35,049 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.326 10.00% 10.00% -10.60%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,792 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.758 10.00% 10.00% -2.73%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,044

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,906

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2951
    Compression
    		 35447
    Encryption
    		 918
    Extended Instructions
    		 2965
    Floating Point Maths
    		 6040
    Integer Maths
    		 7160
    Physics
    		 404
    Prime Numbers
    		 23
    Single Threaded
    		 1792
    String Sorting
    		 4305

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 984
    Database Operations
    		 1282
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21599
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8420
    Memory Write
    		 7752

    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

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    DS1 14 GiB0
    DS11 214 GiB0
    DS3 414 GiB0
    DS12 428 GiB0
    DS4 828 GiB0
    DS13 856 GiB0
    DS14 16112 GiB0

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