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 0.0569 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
2026-10-27T10:54:25.559516

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0601 USD/h 0.268 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1319 USD/h 0.268 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0611 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0633 USD/h 0.282 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0656 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0671 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1162 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0569 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0691 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0691 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0693 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0717 USD/h 0.308 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0723 USD/h 0.322 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0725 USD/h 0.322 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0754 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0754 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0761 USD/h 0.339 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0806 USD/h 0.359 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0835 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0835 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0848 USD/h 0.378 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0853 USD/h 0.38 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0862 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0864 USD/h 0.385 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0864 USD/h 0.385 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0882 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0904 USD/h 0.403 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0938 USD/h 0.418 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0992 USD/h 0.442 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1013 USD/h 0.45 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1013 USD/h 0.451 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1109 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    29 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    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

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.34Score
    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 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.27 50.00% 50.00% -48.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,239,849 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.27 20.00% 20.00% -23.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,792 2,416 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 41,904 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.38 10.00% 10.00% -9.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,841 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,051

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,463

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 5,776
    Compression
    		 72,098
    Encryption
    		 1,844
    Extended Instructions
    		 6,076
    Floating Point Maths
    		 11,704
    Integer Maths
    		 14,264
    Physics
    		 749
    Prime Numbers
    		 45
    Single Threaded
    		 1,841
    String Sorting
    		 8,701

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,792
    Database Operations
    		 2,526
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,666
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8,168
    Memory Write
    		 7,635

    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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