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 0.0284 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
7 GiB Memory
14 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2,469
(All-cores)
1,246
(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
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-21T13:53:20.147054

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0301 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.066 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0305 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0317 USD/h 0.141 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0328 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0334 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0579 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0284 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0346 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0346 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0347 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0358 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0361 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0362 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0377 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0377 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0379 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0404 USD/h 0.18 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0418 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0418 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0424 USD/h 0.189 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0426 USD/h 0.19 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0431 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0431 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0431 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0441 USD/h 0.196 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0453 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0469 USD/h 0.209 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0496 USD/h 0.221 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0505 USD/h 0.225 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0506 USD/h 0.225 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0555 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    14 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    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

    0.19Score
    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 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.13 50.00% 50.00% -64.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,658,078 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.14 20.00% 20.00% -33.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 980 2,416 0.41 10.00% 10.00% -8.50%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 35,049 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.32 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,792 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,044

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,906

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2,951
    Compression
    		 35,447
    Encryption
    		 918
    Extended Instructions
    		 2,965
    Floating Point Maths
    		 6,040
    Integer Maths
    		 7,160
    Physics
    		 404
    Prime Numbers
    		 23
    Single Threaded
    		 1,792
    String Sorting
    		 4,305

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 984
    Database Operations
    		 1,282
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,599
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8,420
    Memory Write
    		 7,752

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 252.99 239.34 0.95×
    bitops
    		 98,841 195,121 1.97×
    branch
    		 136,244 267,879 1.97×
    funccall
    		 480.11 942.13 1.96×
    funcret
    		 9,887 19,451 1.97×
    hash
    		 111,354 216,921 1.95×
    intmath
    		 19,668 38,483 1.96×
    nop
    		 168,844 331,032 1.96×
    prime
    		 279,937 543,983 1.94×
    rotate
    		 85,256 167,186 1.96×
    str
    		 666,678 1,184,009 1.78×
    wcs
    		 418,023 830,458 1.99×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,157 4,182 1.94×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 526.04 1,028 1.95×
    zlib
    		 37.68 92.9 2.47×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 18,058 33,861 1.88×
    clone
    		 905.97 809.9 0.89×
    context
    		 1,708 3,364 1.97×
    cpu-sched
    		 52.11 125.83 2.41×
    eventfd
    		 32,394 145,507 4.49×
    fault
    		 8,701 15,105 1.74×
    fork
    		 3,321 6,817 2.05×
    getrandom
    		 39,275 76,947 1.96×
    hrtimers
    		 131,549 290,804 2.21×
    mprotect
    		 402,259 427,958 1.06×
    mtx
    		 11,538,980 85,654,878 7.42×
    munmap
    		 2,434 4,590 1.89×
    null
    		 180,666 348,361 1.93×
    pipe
    		 801,156 977,408 1.22×
    priv-instr
    		 396,094 757,055 1.91×
    resched
    		 237,660 171,653 0.72×
    switch
    		 64,056 378,063 5.90×
    timermix
    		 156,879 318,355 2.03×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 5,277 5,331 1.01×
    tsc
    		 873,588 1,715,046 1.96×
    usersyscall
    		 271,771 521,152 1.92×
    vdso
    		 65,424,048 125,739,916 1.92×
    vfork
    		 20,855 42,564 2.04×
    x86syscall
    		 2,038,729 3,999,002 1.96×
    yield
    		 1,293,558 1,246,814 0.96×
    zero
    		 1,364,963 2,681,337 1.96×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 14,313 27,677 1.93×
    expmath
    		 2,361 4,648 1.97×
    fma
    		 538,925 1,060,271 1.97×
    fp
    		 143.42 282.77 1.97×
    fractal
    		 4.6 9 1.96×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,458 4,846 1.97×
    logmath
    		 4,010 7,856 1.96×
    matrix
    		 2,846 5,586 1.96×
    matrix-3d
    		 582.02 922.37 1.58×
    monte-carlo
    		 96.06 191.5 1.99×
    mpfr
    		 1,070 2,076 1.94×
    powmath
    		 1,408 2,755 1.96×
    trig
    		 1,513 2,955 1.95×
    veccmp
    		 13,805 26,849 1.94×
    vecfp
    		 1,961 3,849 1.96×
    vecmath
    		 1,876 3,682 1.96×
    vecshuf
    		 830.35 1,621 1.95×
    vecwide
    		 50,042 98,101 1.96×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 6.4 12.6 1.97×
    bsearch
    		 213.35 420.27 1.97×
    bubblesort
    		 0.6 1.2 2.00×
    fibsearch
    		 216.18 423.96 1.96×
    heapsort
    		 7.6 15.2 2.00×
    hsearch
    		 4,336 8,514 1.96×
    insertionsort
    		 7.2 14 1.94×
    malloc
    		 1,656,479 3,931,590 2.37×
    mcontend
    		 127.86 420.66 3.29×
    mergesort
    		 20.6 40.6 1.97×
    qsort
    		 13.2 25.8 1.95×
    skiplist
    		 4,301 8,467 1.97×
    tree
    		 1.2 2 1.67×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 273,685 289,293 1.06×
    cachehammer
    		 297,610 492,050 1.65×
    cacheline
    		 18.21 35.84 1.97×
    l1cache
    		 193.85 393.66 2.03×
    memcpy
    		 307.07 602.67 1.96×
    memrate
    		 1.16 2.33 2.01×
    memthrash
    		 51.74 94.96 1.84×
    ptr-chase
    		 13,881,708 24,852,329 1.79×
    spinmem
    		 342.38 180.76 0.53×
    stream
    		 26.83 107.07 3.99×
    vm
    		 58,515 200,714 3.43×

    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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