DS2_v2 by Microsoft Azure

DS2_v2 is a DSv2 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 0.0168 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
7 GiB Memory
14 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2,467
(All-cores)
1,246
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS2_v2
Name
DS2_v2
API Reference
Standard_DS2_v2
Description
DSv2 family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
DSv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-25T01:32:09.323401

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0256 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0257 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0561 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.028 USD/h 0.125 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0285 USD/h 0.127 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0285 USD/h 0.127 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0296 USD/h 0.132 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0298 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0305 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0305 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0305 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0305 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0305 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0308 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0308 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0308 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0314 USD/h 0.14 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0314 USD/h 0.14 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0544 USD/h 0.14 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.027 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0328 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0328 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0328 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.034 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0334 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0336 USD/h 0.1496 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0337 USD/h 0.15 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0343 USD/h 0.153 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.035 USD/h 0.1558 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0355 USD/h 0.158 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.037 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0168 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0377 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0377 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0379 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0379 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0379 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.169 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.169 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0384 USD/h 0.171 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.039 USD/h 0.174 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0393 USD/h 0.175 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0393 USD/h 0.175 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0395 USD/h 0.176 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0399 USD/h 0.178 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0409 USD/h 0.182 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0432 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0435 USD/h 0.194 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0437 USD/h 0.1946 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0438 USD/h 0.195 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.046 USD/h 0.205 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.048 USD/h 0.214 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.05 USD/h 0.223 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0512 USD/h 0.228 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
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
3 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
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

    An entry-level general-purpose instance featuring dedicated dual-core Intel processing, balanced memory, and local storage for lightweight utility workloads.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DS2_v2 is a general-purpose virtual machine instance from the DSv2 family, utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is configured with 2 dedicated vCPUs on an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz, 7.0 GB of RAM, and 14 GB of local storage. Benchmark results position this instance in the lower performance tiers, with a single-core stress-ng score of 1246.49 and a multi-core score of 2467.38. Memory bandwidth is also limited, with uncached large-block reads at 22.78 GB/sec. Despite these constraints, it achieves an average text generation speed of 94.89 tokens per second on a small 135M LLM. The DS2_v2 represents an entry-level, dedicated resource option suitable for lightweight workloads such as basic web serving, small development environments, and low-intensity background processing.

    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) 251,422 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.13 50.00% 50.00% -64.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,592,438 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.13 20.00% 20.00% -34.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,072 2,416 0.46 10.00% 10.00% -7.50%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 30,557 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.28 10.00% 10.00% -12.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,839 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,036

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,922

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2,946
    Compression
    		 35,395
    Encryption
    		 918
    Extended Instructions
    		 2,963
    Floating Point Maths
    		 5,961
    Integer Maths
    		 7,145
    Physics
    		 400
    Prime Numbers
    		 23
    Single Threaded
    		 1,839
    String Sorting
    		 4,339

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,072
    Database Operations
    		 1,346
    Memory Latency
    		 51
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,594
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,297
    Memory Write
    		 9,658

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 210.48 209.09 0.99×
    bitops
    		 93,429 184,414 1.97×
    branch
    		 98,183 193,450 1.97×
    funccall
    		 454.98 892.89 1.96×
    funcret
    		 8,442 16,724 1.98×
    hash
    		 108,037 211,588 1.96×
    intmath
    		 43,634 85,208 1.95×
    nop
    		 134,053 264,546 1.97×
    prime
    		 287,166 564,722 1.97×
    rotate
    		 69,909 137,440 1.97×
    str
    		 616,155 1,252,453 2.03×
    wcs
    		 449,596 851,130 1.89×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,032 3,995 1.97×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 512.21 1,006 1.96×
    zlib
    		 43.22 74.91 1.73×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 17,932 32,484 1.81×
    clone
    		 1,086 582.19 0.54×
    context
    		 1,513 2,977 1.97×
    cpu-sched
    		 73.52 126.78 1.72×
    eventfd
    		 33,354 157,221 4.71×
    fault
    		 9,635 16,995 1.76×
    fork
    		 3,815 7,222 1.89×
    getrandom
    		 34,344 67,400 1.96×
    hrtimers
    		 141,721 196,343 1.39×
    mprotect
    		 374,553 388,612 1.04×
    mtx
    		 14,066,522 76,030,467 5.41×
    munmap
    		 2,733 5,068 1.85×
    null
    		 161,756 317,533 1.96×
    pipe
    		 794,653 973,398 1.22×
    priv-instr
    		 346,464 665,678 1.92×
    resched
    		 242,417 178,833 0.74×
    switch
    		 102,172 394,871 3.86×
    timermix
    		 159,416 316,880 1.99×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 5,100 5,768 1.13×
    tsc
    		 640,965 1,259,432 1.96×
    usersyscall
    		 243,368 468,684 1.93×
    vdso
    		 65,248,285 128,885,078 1.98×
    vfork
    		 24,461 60,468 2.47×
    x86syscall
    		 1,807,919 3,568,347 1.97×
    yield
    		 1,418,599 1,422,941 1.00×
    zero
    		 1,377,875 2,689,594 1.95×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 10,192 20,690 2.03×
    expmath
    		 2,070 4,072 1.97×
    fma
    		 485,905 954,913 1.97×
    fp
    		 124.8 253.63 2.03×
    fractal
    		 3.6 7 1.94×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,207 4,267 1.93×
    logmath
    		 3,467 6,830 1.97×
    matrix
    		 2,710 5,350 1.97×
    matrix-3d
    		 595.69 1,030 1.73×
    monte-carlo
    		 85.48 170.33 1.99×
    mpfr
    		 1,010 1,975 1.96×
    powmath
    		 1,201 2,371 1.97×
    trig
    		 1,414 2,771 1.96×
    veccmp
    		 14,878 29,207 1.96×
    vecfp
    		 1,093 2,150 1.97×
    vecmath
    		 2,351 4,619 1.96×
    vecshuf
    		 475.86 936.24 1.97×
    vecwide
    		 22,842 44,776 1.96×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 5.8 11.4 1.97×
    bsearch
    		 177.89 350.75 1.97×
    bubblesort
    		 0.6 1.2 2.00×
    fibsearch
    		 207.65 407.21 1.96×
    heapsort
    		 6.6 13.2 2.00×
    hsearch
    		 5,084 9,967 1.96×
    insertionsort
    		 7.6 14.8 1.95×
    malloc
    		 1,898,259 4,283,985 2.26×
    mcontend
    		 100.46 285.95 2.85×
    mergesort
    		 19.2 37.8 1.97×
    qsort
    		 14.8 29.2 1.97×
    skiplist
    		 3,890 7,639 1.96×
    tree
    		 1.2 2 1.67×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 308,700 318,892 1.03×
    cachehammer
    		 347,455 677,220 1.95×
    cacheline
    		 22.47 48.57 2.16×
    l1cache
    		 658.63 1,270 1.93×
    memcpy
    		 291.41 572.87 1.97×
    memrate
    		 1.56 2.72 1.74×
    memthrash
    		 59.01 98.9 1.68×
    ptr-chase
    		 15,098,036 27,708,854 1.84×
    spinmem
    		 303.78 146.18 0.48×
    stream
    		 37.38 142.37 3.81×
    vm
    		 63,975 208,650 3.26×

    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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