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
2026-09-09T21:44:04.205227

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0232 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0233 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0701 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0255 USD/h 0.125 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0259 USD/h 0.127 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0259 USD/h 0.127 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0269 USD/h 0.132 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0271 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0277 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0277 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0277 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0277 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0277 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0279 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0279 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.028 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0285 USD/h 0.14 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0285 USD/h 0.14 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.068 USD/h 0.14 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0283 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0297 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0297 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0297 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0315 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0303 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0305 USD/h 0.1496 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0305 USD/h 0.15 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0312 USD/h 0.153 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0317 USD/h 0.1558 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0323 USD/h 0.158 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0336 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0168 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0342 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0342 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0344 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0344 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0344 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
0.0348 USD/h 0.171 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0354 USD/h 0.174 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0356 USD/h 0.175 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0356 USD/h 0.175 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0359 USD/h 0.176 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0362 USD/h 0.178 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0371 USD/h 0.182 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0392 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0395 USD/h 0.194 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0396 USD/h 0.1946 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0397 USD/h 0.195 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0417 USD/h 0.205 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0436 USD/h 0.214 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0454 USD/h 0.223 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0464 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
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

    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

    0.193Score
    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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.131 50.00% 50.00% -63.80%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,592,438 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.136 20.00% 20.00% -32.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,072 2,418 0.443 10.00% 10.00% -7.82%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 30,557 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.283 10.00% 10.00% -11.90%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,839 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.778 10.00% 10.00% -2.48%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,036

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,922

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2946
    Compression
    		 35395
    Encryption
    		 918
    Extended Instructions
    		 2963
    Floating Point Maths
    		 5961
    Integer Maths
    		 7145
    Physics
    		 400
    Prime Numbers
    		 23
    Single Threaded
    		 1839
    String Sorting
    		 4339

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1072
    Database Operations
    		 1346
    Memory Latency
    		 51
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21594
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10297
    Memory Write
    		 9658

    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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