DS4_v2 by Microsoft Azure

DS4_v2 is a DSv2 family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 28 GiB of memory and 57 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0673 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
28 GiB Memory
57 GB Storage
Spare SCore
9,945
(All-cores)
1,247
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS4_v2
Name
DS4_v2
API Reference
Standard_DS4_v2
Description
DSv2 family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
DSv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
26
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-12T13:51:39.530075

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1028 USD/h 0.458 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1031 USD/h 0.458 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2254 USD/h 0.458 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1127 USD/h 0.502 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1142 USD/h 0.509 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1142 USD/h 0.509 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1183 USD/h 0.527 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1194 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1218 USD/h 0.543 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1221 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1221 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1221 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1221 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.123 USD/h 0.548 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1234 USD/h 0.55 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1237 USD/h 0.55 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1254 USD/h 0.559 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1257 USD/h 0.56 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2176 USD/h 0.56 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.131 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.131 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.108 USD/h 0.585 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1313 USD/h 0.585 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1361 USD/h 0.585 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1333 USD/h 0.594 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1342 USD/h 0.598 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1343 USD/h 0.5984 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1378 USD/h 0.614 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1398 USD/h 0.623 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.142 USD/h 0.631 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1481 USD/h 0.66 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0673 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.151 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.151 USD/h 0.673 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1515 USD/h 0.675 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1515 USD/h 0.675 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1515 USD/h 0.675 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.675 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.675 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1537 USD/h 0.685 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1565 USD/h 0.697 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1576 USD/h 0.702 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1576 USD/h 0.702 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1576 USD/h 0.702 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1602 USD/h 0.714 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1636 USD/h 0.729 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1731 USD/h 0.769 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1746 USD/h 0.778 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1746 USD/h 0.778 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1756 USD/h 0.782 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1836 USD/h 0.818 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1924 USD/h 0.857 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1997 USD/h 0.89 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.2047 USD/h 0.912 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 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
8
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
28 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
28 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    57 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 57 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An 8-core x86_64 virtual machine with dedicated Intel Xeon processors, balanced memory, and local storage for multi-threaded general-purpose workloads.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DS4_v2 is an x86_64 general-purpose virtual machine powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor clocked at 2.6 GHz. It features 8 dedicated physical cores, a 35 MB L3 cache, 28.0 GB of system memory, and 57 GB of local storage. Operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance supports AVX-512 and AES instructions. Performance benchmarks indicate a tradeoff: single-core CPU execution, single-threaded compression, and memory scores fall into the bottom 25% tier, whereas multi-core performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations achieve average, middle-tier results. The instance is suited for multi-threaded general-purpose applications, static web serving, Redis deployments, and moderate database workloads that benefit from dedicated CPU resources without requiring high-performance single-core execution or GPU acceleration.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.58Score
    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) 1,045,289 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.53 50.00% 50.00% -27.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,573,228 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.55 20.00% 20.00% -11.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,762 2,417 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 70,919 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.65 10.00% 10.00% -4.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,809 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,063

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 5,888

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 8654
    Compression
    		 126529
    Encryption
    		 2282
    Extended Instructions
    		 7551
    Floating Point Maths
    		 20820
    Integer Maths
    		 24268
    Physics
    		 1064
    Prime Numbers
    		 72
    Single Threaded
    		 1809
    String Sorting
    		 17041

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1762
    Database Operations
    		 4272
    Memory Latency
    		 68
    Memory Read Cached
    		 19449
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6596
    Memory Write
    		 5886

    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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