E2_v3 by Microsoft Azure

E2_v3 is a Ev3 family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 51 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.016 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
51 GB Storage
Spare SCore
912
(All-cores)
770
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E2_v3
Name
E2_v3
API Reference
Standard_E2_v3
Description
Ev3 family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
Ev3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
33
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-31T08:29:24.757358

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0233 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0233 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0233 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0247 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0509 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0247 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0253 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.137 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.137 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0257 USD/h 0.139 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0261 USD/h 0.141 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0261 USD/h 0.141 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0266 USD/h 0.144 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0266 USD/h 0.144 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0266 USD/h 0.144 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0241 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.027 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.027 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.027 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0418 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0273 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0273 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0273 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.028 USD/h 0.151 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0286 USD/h 0.155 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0249 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0288 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0288 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0294 USD/h 0.159 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.016 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0309 USD/h 0.167 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0309 USD/h 0.167 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0325 USD/h 0.176 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0325 USD/h 0.176 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.0336 USD/h 0.182 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0362 USD/h 0.196 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0366 USD/h 0.198 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0375 USD/h 0.2028 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0389 USD/h 0.21 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0423 USD/h 0.229 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0424 USD/h 0.2292 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0434 USD/h 0.235 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0565 USD/h 0.306 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2673 v4
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
50 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
50 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, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, vnmi, md_clear
Ecpus
1.2
Scalability
60

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A budget-friendly virtual machine offering a high memory-to-vCPU ratio for lightweight, memory-intensive workloads with modest processing requirements.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    The Microsoft Azure E2_v3 is an x86_64 virtual machine from the Ev3 family, configured with 2 dedicated vCPUs from a single physical Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 core running at 2.3 GHz. It features 16.0 GB of RAM, providing a high 8.0 GB of memory per core, alongside 51 GB of local SSD storage. The instance does not include a GPU or complimentary public IPv4 addresses. Benchmark results for the E2_v3, including CPU, memory bandwidth, and database operations, consistently fall within the bottom 10% of performance tiers. This server is a cost-effective option for memory-heavy but compute-light workloads, such as small databases, caching layers, and development environments where high processing throughput is not required.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.1Score
    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) 105,132 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.058 50.00% 50.00% -76.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 699,325 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.058 20.00% 20.00% -43.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,222 2,416 0.5 10.00% 10.00% -6.70%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 28,460 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.25 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,445 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.58 10.00% 10.00% -5.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 778

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 916

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 1,464
    Compression
    		 18,327
    Encryption
    		 414
    Extended Instructions
    		 915
    Floating Point Maths
    		 2,853
    Integer Maths
    		 4,492
    Physics
    		 206
    Prime Numbers
    		 13
    Single Threaded
    		 1,445
    String Sorting
    		 2,761

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,222
    Database Operations
    		 511
    Memory Latency
    		 72
    Memory Read Cached
    		 16,989
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6,876
    Memory Write
    		 5,715

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 472.69 486.14 1.03×
    bitops
    		 80,780 85,028 1.05×
    branch
    		 104,359 151,954 1.46×
    funccall
    		 351.44 347.66 0.99×
    funcret
    		 6,821 10,138 1.49×
    hash
    		 84,325 123,682 1.47×
    intmath
    		 14,292 20,571 1.44×
    nop
    		 117,517 105,703 0.90×
    prime
    		 203,872 225,647 1.11×
    rotate
    		 64,922 85,181 1.31×
    str
    		 455,347 511,177 1.12×
    wcs
    		 299,977 305,450 1.02×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 1,449 1,479 1.02×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 352.31 446.76 1.27×
    zlib
    		 46.76 49.17 1.05×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 12,474 15,867 1.27×
    clone
    		 710.89 1,002 1.41×
    context
    		 1,308 1,662 1.27×
    cpu-sched
    		 66.2 120.92 1.83×
    eventfd
    		 19,460 53,242 2.74×
    fault
    		 4,378 6,531 1.49×
    fork
    		 2,265 3,188 1.41×
    getrandom
    		 27,868 34,020 1.22×
    hrtimers
    		 101,770 167,267 1.64×
    mprotect
    		 199,596 201,654 1.01×
    mtx
    		 4,972,534 34,665,640 6.97×
    munmap
    		 1,536 2,164 1.41×
    null
    		 132,095 161,377 1.22×
    pipe
    		 601,533 369,134 0.61×
    priv-instr
    		 298,102 379,566 1.27×
    resched
    		 108,628 79,340 0.73×
    switch
    		 54,672 179,701 3.29×
    timermix
    		 127,355 171,217 1.34×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 3,060 2,808 0.92×
    tsc
    		 680,818 1,214,147 1.78×
    usersyscall
    		 208,278 257,355 1.24×
    vdso
    		 51,731,238 66,554,913 1.29×
    vfork
    		 12,567 20,728 1.65×
    x86syscall
    		 1,521,863 1,880,458 1.24×
    yield
    		 559,919 606,098 1.08×
    zero
    		 1,020,784 1,169,899 1.15×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 9,408 12,414 1.32×
    expmath
    		 1,756 2,483 1.41×
    fma
    		 397,797 606,428 1.52×
    fp
    		 84 106.97 1.27×
    fractal
    		 3.4 4.4 1.29×
    hyperbolic
    		 1,910 2,889 1.51×
    logmath
    		 3,037 4,335 1.43×
    matrix
    		 2,486 2,701 1.09×
    matrix-3d
    		 416.05 337.69 0.81×
    monte-carlo
    		 74.02 86.35 1.17×
    mpfr
    		 751.14 776.88 1.03×
    powmath
    		 1,035 1,504 1.45×
    trig
    		 1,221 1,343 1.10×
    veccmp
    		 9,041 9,685 1.07×
    vecfp
    		 573.08 744.63 1.30×
    vecmath
    		 1,449 2,150 1.48×
    vecshuf
    		 361.41 389.55 1.08×
    vecwide
    		 16,026 17,779 1.11×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 4.6 5.4 1.17×
    bsearch
    		 156.73 183.91 1.17×
    bubblesort
    		 0.4 0.4 1.00×
    fibsearch
    		 180.08 209.29 1.16×
    heapsort
    		 5.2 6 1.15×
    hsearch
    		 2,759 3,251 1.18×
    insertionsort
    		 5.2 5 0.96×
    malloc
    		 1,040,182 1,896,467 1.82×
    mcontend
    		 345.41 418.8 1.21×
    mergesort
    		 17 22.8 1.34×
    qsort
    		 12 14.6 1.22×
    skiplist
    		 3,861 5,038 1.31×
    tree
    		 0.8 1.2 1.50×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 149,207 174,918 1.17×
    cachehammer
    		 412,520 692,842 1.68×
    cacheline
    		 12.13 24.88 2.05×
    l1cache
    		 129.12 130.14 1.01×
    memcpy
    		 276.94 296.67 1.07×
    memrate
    		 0.77 1.13 1.47×
    memthrash
    		 33.55 56.59 1.69×
    ptr-chase
    		 10,607,097 18,601,733 1.75×
    spinmem
    		 105.19 44.98 0.43×
    stream
    		 22.7 49.29 2.17×
    vm
    		 36,651 52,805 1.44×

    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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