DS3 by Microsoft Azure

DS3 is a DS family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 14 GiB of memory and 29 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0546 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
14 GiB Memory
29 GB Storage
Spare SCore
4,943
(All-cores)
1,246
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS3
Name
DS3
API Reference
Standard_DS3
Description
DS family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
DS
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-09-12T06:21:57.331022

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0546 USD/h 0.268 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1649 USD/h 0.268 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0554 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0574 USD/h 0.282 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0595 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0609 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1452 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0597 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0627 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0627 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0629 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0665 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0656 USD/h 0.322 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0658 USD/h 0.322 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0684 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0684 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.069 USD/h 0.339 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0731 USD/h 0.359 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0758 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0758 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.077 USD/h 0.378 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0774 USD/h 0.38 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0782 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0784 USD/h 0.385 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0784 USD/h 0.385 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.08 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0821 USD/h 0.403 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0851 USD/h 0.418 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.09 USD/h 0.442 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0919 USD/h 0.45 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0919 USD/h 0.451 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1006 USD/h 0.494 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8171M
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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
4
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    An entry-tier general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon cores and balanced memory for lightweight utility workloads and caching.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DS3 is a general-purpose virtual machine featuring 4 dedicated physical cores powered by an Intel Xeon 8171M processor running at 2.6 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture, it includes 14.0 GB of RAM (3.5 GB per core) and 29 GB of local storage, managed via Microsoft Hyper-V. Performance benchmarks place the instance in the bottom 25% for raw compute and large-block memory bandwidth. However, it maintains average performance in Redis SET operations, reaching 5.9 million operations per second, and small-model LLM inference. The DS3 represents an entry-tier general-purpose option, presenting a tradeoff of lower compute speeds for basic resource availability. It is suited for lightweight web serving, small caching layers, and development environments.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.345Score
    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) 513,067 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.268 50.00% 50.00% -48.20%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,239,849 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.277 20.00% 20.00% -22.60%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,792 2,418 0.741 10.00% 10.00% -2.95%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 41,904 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.388 10.00% 10.00% -9.03%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,841 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.778 10.00% 10.00% -2.48%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,051

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,463

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 5776
    Compression
    		 72098
    Encryption
    		 1844
    Extended Instructions
    		 6076
    Floating Point Maths
    		 11704
    Integer Maths
    		 14264
    Physics
    		 749
    Prime Numbers
    		 45
    Single Threaded
    		 1841
    String Sorting
    		 8701

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1792
    Database Operations
    		 2526
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21666
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8168
    Memory Write
    		 7635

    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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