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
5,398
(All-cores)
1,356
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS3_v2
Name
DS3_v2
API Reference
Standard_DS3_v2
API Reference Object
-
Description
DSv2 family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
DSv2
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-18T08:25:18.490298

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0514 USD/h 0.229 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0515 USD/h 0.229 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1127 USD/h 0.229 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0563 USD/h 0.251 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.057 USD/h 0.254 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.057 USD/h 0.254 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.059 USD/h 0.263 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0597 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0611 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0611 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0611 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0611 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0611 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0615 USD/h 0.274 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0617 USD/h 0.275 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0619 USD/h 0.275 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0626 USD/h 0.279 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0628 USD/h 0.28 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1088 USD/h 0.28 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0656 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0656 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0541 USD/h 0.293 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0657 USD/h 0.293 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0682 USD/h 0.293 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0667 USD/h 0.297 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0671 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0671 USD/h 0.2992 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0689 USD/h 0.307 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0698 USD/h 0.311 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0711 USD/h 0.316 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0741 USD/h 0.33 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0336 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0754 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0754 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0757 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0757 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0757 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
0.077 USD/h 0.343 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0781 USD/h 0.348 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0788 USD/h 0.351 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0788 USD/h 0.351 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0788 USD/h 0.351 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0801 USD/h 0.357 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0819 USD/h 0.365 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0867 USD/h 0.385 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0873 USD/h 0.389 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0873 USD/h 0.3891 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0878 USD/h 0.391 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0918 USD/h 0.409 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.096 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0999 USD/h 0.445 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1024 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
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

    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

    0.35Score
    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 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.27 50.00% 50.00% -48.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,471,338 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.29 20.00% 20.00% -22.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,923 2,417 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 48,143 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.44 10.00% 10.00% -7.90%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,739 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

    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

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