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DS3_v2 by Microsoft Azure

DS3_v2 is a DSv2 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 0.0336 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
14 GiB Memory
29 GB Storage
Spare SCore
5398
(All-cores)
1356
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS3_v2
Name
DS3_v2
API Reference
Standard_DS3_v2
Description
DSv2 family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
DSv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-19T23:02:50.110930

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0423 USD/h 0.229 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0425 USD/h 0.229 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1409 USD/h 0.229 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0464 USD/h 0.251 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0469 USD/h 0.254 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0469 USD/h 0.254 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0588 USD/h 0.263 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0492 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0503 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0503 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0503 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0503 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0503 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0506 USD/h 0.274 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0508 USD/h 0.275 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.051 USD/h 0.275 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0516 USD/h 0.279 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0517 USD/h 0.28 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.136 USD/h 0.28 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.054 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.054 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0515 USD/h 0.293 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0541 USD/h 0.293 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0574 USD/h 0.293 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0549 USD/h 0.297 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0553 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0553 USD/h 0.2992 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0567 USD/h 0.307 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0575 USD/h 0.311 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0586 USD/h 0.316 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.061 USD/h 0.33 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0336 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0621 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0621 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0623 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0623 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0623 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.337 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.337 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0634 USD/h 0.343 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0643 USD/h 0.348 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0595 USD/h 0.351 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0649 USD/h 0.351 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0649 USD/h 0.351 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.066 USD/h 0.357 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0675 USD/h 0.365 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0714 USD/h 0.385 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0719 USD/h 0.389 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0719 USD/h 0.3891 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0723 USD/h 0.391 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0756 USD/h 0.409 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0791 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0822 USD/h 0.445 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0843 USD/h 0.456 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
8272CL
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

    A dedicated four-core virtual machine with balanced memory and local storage, configured for standard database operations and general-purpose workloads.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DS3_v2 is an x86_64 general-purpose virtual machine powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz. It features 4 dedicated physical cores (4 vCPUs), 14.0 GB of memory, and 29 GB of local storage, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Benchmark results show weak performance in raw compute and compression tasks, placing single-core and multi-core CPU scores in the bottom 25%. Conversely, the instance achieves average performance in memory bandwidth, Passmark database operations, and Redis SET operations, which reach 6.13 million operations per second. It also maintains average LLM inference speeds for small 135M models. Given these characteristics, the DS3_v2 is configured for general-purpose workloads, moderate database tasks, and lightweight caching, offering dedicated resource allocation but lower compute efficiency compared to newer generations.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.359Score
    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) 516,709 ops/sec 1,895,870 ops/sec 0.273 50.00% 50.00% -47.80%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,471,338 ops/sec 11,503,938 ops/sec 0.302 20.00% 20.00% -21.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,923 2,410 0.798 10.00% 10.00% -2.23%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 48,143 MB/sec 107,331 MB/sec 0.449 10.00% 10.00% -7.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,739 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.736 10.00% 10.00% -3.02%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,063

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,501

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		5730
    Compression
    		64361
    Encryption
    		1829
    Extended Instructions
    		5582
    Floating Point Maths
    		12268
    Integer Maths
    		14979
    Physics
    		810
    Prime Numbers
    		49
    Single Threaded
    		1739
    String Sorting
    		8981

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		1923
    Database Operations
    		3231
    Memory Latency
    		55
    Memory Read Cached
    		17503
    Memory Read Uncached
    		10872
    Memory Write
    		9981

    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

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    DS1_v2 14 GiB0
    DS11-1_v2 114 GiB0
    DS12-1_v2 128 GiB0
    DS2_v2 27 GiB0
    DS11_v2 214 GiB0
    DS12-2_v2 228 GiB0
    DS13-2_v2 256 GiB0

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