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
2026-10-27T07:07:06.385035

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 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.53 50.00% 50.00% -27.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,573,228 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.55 20.00% 20.00% -11.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,762 2,416 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 70,919 MB/sec 108,420 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
    		 8,654
    Compression
    		 126,529
    Encryption
    		 2,282
    Extended Instructions
    		 7,551
    Floating Point Maths
    		 20,820
    Integer Maths
    		 24,268
    Physics
    		 1,064
    Prime Numbers
    		 72
    Single Threaded
    		 1,809
    String Sorting
    		 17,041

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,762
    Database Operations
    		 4,272
    Memory Latency
    		 68
    Memory Read Cached
    		 19,449
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6,596
    Memory Write
    		 5,886

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 189.22 207 1.09×
    bitops
    		 98,849 787,489 7.97×
    branch
    		 136,314 1,087,417 7.98×
    funccall
    		 480.68 3,823 7.95×
    funcret
    		 10,028 78,820 7.86×
    hash
    		 111,468 885,615 7.95×
    intmath
    		 19,694 156,026 7.92×
    nop
    		 168,955 1,340,456 7.93×
    prime
    		 280,591 2,213,493 7.89×
    rotate
    		 85,385 680,114 7.97×
    str
    		 643,683 5,165,469 8.02×
    wcs
    		 410,779 3,334,209 8.12×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,161 17,152 7.94×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 512.7 4,072 7.94×
    zlib
    		 38.6 330.04 8.55×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 18,198 120,916 6.64×
    clone
    		 991.77 5,310 5.35×
    context
    		 1,724 13,705 7.95×
    cpu-sched
    		 60.31 513.27 8.51×
    eventfd
    		 32,585 598,879 18.38×
    fault
    		 9,901 56,046 5.66×
    fork
    		 3,599 20,757 5.77×
    getrandom
    		 39,330 313,298 7.97×
    hrtimers
    		 223,268 816,916 3.66×
    mprotect
    		 1,069,846 1,696,880 1.59×
    mtx
    		 10,788,196 307,426,007 28.50×
    munmap
    		 2,524 17,134 6.79×
    null
    		 182,362 1,435,775 7.87×
    pipe
    		 865,452 3,458,242 4.00×
    priv-instr
    		 396,661 3,074,544 7.75×
    resched
    		 1,860,373 887,078 0.48×
    switch
    		 54,669 1,792,980 32.80×
    timermix
    		 179,775 1,358,069 7.55×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 7,630 21,890 2.87×
    tsc
    		 874,285 6,942,154 7.94×
    usersyscall
    		 272,521 2,119,079 7.78×
    vdso
    		 65,491,766 518,022,873 7.91×
    vfork
    		 21,036 131,992 6.27×
    x86syscall
    		 2,062,986 16,415,892 7.96×
    yield
    		 4,718,717 4,765,563 1.01×
    zero
    		 1,372,547 10,920,603 7.96×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 14,324 113,696 7.94×
    expmath
    		 2,376 18,909 7.96×
    fma
    		 602,058 4,276,552 7.10×
    fp
    		 143.79 1,135 7.89×
    fractal
    		 4.6 36.2 7.87×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,484 19,767 7.96×
    logmath
    		 4,021 31,770 7.90×
    matrix
    		 2,871 22,466 7.83×
    matrix-3d
    		 642.35 2,773 4.32×
    monte-carlo
    		 96.02 769.5 8.01×
    mpfr
    		 1,075 8,530 7.93×
    powmath
    		 1,405 11,174 7.95×
    trig
    		 1,517 12,039 7.94×
    veccmp
    		 13,811 109,730 7.95×
    vecfp
    		 2,013 15,663 7.78×
    vecmath
    		 1,876 14,944 7.96×
    vecshuf
    		 830.89 6,619 7.97×
    vecwide
    		 50,060 397,957 7.95×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 6.4 51 7.97×
    bsearch
    		 212.57 1,696 7.98×
    bubblesort
    		 0.6 4.8 8.00×
    fibsearch
    		 216.26 1,723 7.97×
    heapsort
    		 7.8 60.8 7.79×
    hsearch
    		 4,391 34,597 7.88×
    insertionsort
    		 7.2 57.2 7.94×
    malloc
    		 1,914,690 15,497,776 8.09×
    mcontend
    		 107.44 1,888 17.57×
    mergesort
    		 20.6 163.99 7.96×
    qsort
    		 13.2 104.8 7.94×
    skiplist
    		 4,316 34,305 7.95×
    tree
    		 1.2 8 6.67×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 285,667 491,112 1.72×
    cachehammer
    		 419,254 3,198,452 7.63×
    cacheline
    		 24.49 209.9 8.57×
    l1cache
    		 200.93 1,551 7.72×
    memcpy
    		 307.45 2,449 7.97×
    memrate
    		 1.36 7.79 5.73×
    memthrash
    		 108.42 345.65 3.19×
    ptr-chase
    		 27,388,236 104,155,170 3.80×
    spinmem
    		 371.78 533.7 1.44×
    stream
    		 28.24 1,660 58.77×
    vm
    		 58,869 292,145 4.96×

    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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