DS5_v2 by Microsoft Azure

DS5_v2 is a DSv2 family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 56 GiB of memory and 115 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1345 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
56 GiB Memory
115 GB Storage
Spare SCore
19,941
(All-cores)
1,247
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS5_v2
Name
DS5_v2
API Reference
Standard_DS5_v2
Description
DSv2 family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
DSv2
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-21T10:27:05.361061

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.2056 USD/h 0.916 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.2062 USD/h 0.916 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.4509 USD/h 0.916 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.2251 USD/h 1.003 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.2283 USD/h 1.017 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.2283 USD/h 1.017 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.2363 USD/h 1.053 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.2388 USD/h 1.064 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.2437 USD/h 1.086 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.244 USD/h 1.087 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.244 USD/h 1.087 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.244 USD/h 1.087 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.2441 USD/h 1.088 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.2459 USD/h 1.096 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.2466 USD/h 1.099 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.2473 USD/h 1.099 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2507 USD/h 1.117 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.2513 USD/h 1.12 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.4351 USD/h 1.12 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.2621 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.2621 USD/h 1.168 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.2161 USD/h 1.17 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.2625 USD/h 1.17 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2723 USD/h 1.17 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.2668 USD/h 1.189 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.2683 USD/h 1.1957 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.2684 USD/h 1.196 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.2753 USD/h 1.227 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.2796 USD/h 1.246 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2842 USD/h 1.263 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.2964 USD/h 1.321 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1345 USD/h 1.345 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.3018 USD/h 1.345 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.3018 USD/h 1.345 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.3029 USD/h 1.35 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.3029 USD/h 1.35 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.3029 USD/h 1.35 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 1.35 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 1.35 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.3074 USD/h 1.37 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.3128 USD/h 1.394 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.3151 USD/h 1.404 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.3151 USD/h 1.404 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.3153 USD/h 1.405 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.3207 USD/h 1.429 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.3274 USD/h 1.459 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.3464 USD/h 1.539 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.3486 USD/h 1.5537 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.3487 USD/h 1.554 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.3507 USD/h 1.563 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.3671 USD/h 1.636 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.3846 USD/h 1.714 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.3994 USD/h 1.78 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.4093 USD/h 1.824 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 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
16
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A general-purpose virtual machine featuring sixteen dedicated cores and balanced memory capacity for multi-threaded enterprise workloads and database operations.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DS5_v2 is a general-purpose virtual machine from the DSv2 family, powered by an x86_64 Intel Xeon 8272CL processor with 16 dedicated physical cores running at 2.6 GHz. It features 56.0 GB of RAM (3.5 GB per core) and 115 GB of local storage, with no GPU acceleration. Performance benchmarks indicate a distinct tradeoff: single-core metrics in stress-ng and Geekbench are in the bottom quartile, whereas multi-core performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations fall into the average tier. Notably, the instance demonstrates strong text generation speeds for small language models. This resource profile is suited for multi-threaded applications, general-purpose web serving, and database operations that leverage parallel execution rather than high single-thread clock speeds.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1Score
    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) 2,101,530 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 1.1 50.00% 50.00% +4.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 13,260,466 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 1.1 20.00% 20.00% +1.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,582 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 113,350 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,794 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,106

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,382

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 20,070
    Compression
    		 291,808
    Encryption
    		 7,412
    Extended Instructions
    		 24,482
    Floating Point Maths
    		 47,336
    Integer Maths
    		 57,590
    Physics
    		 1,970
    Prime Numbers
    		 138
    Single Threaded
    		 1,794
    String Sorting
    		 34,784

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,582
    Database Operations
    		 10,329
    Memory Latency
    		 51
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,749
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,413
    Memory Write
    		 9,269

    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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