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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
2026-07-21T22:18:57.840859

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
0.0637 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0228 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
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0261 USD/h 0.141 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0266 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
0.0523 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
0.0187 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
0.03 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
0.0365 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
0.0368 USD/h 0.235 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0507 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
120

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    51 GB
    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 memory-optimized virtual machine featuring a high RAM-to-vCPU ratio for lightweight databases and caching workloads with moderate compute requirements.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    The Microsoft Azure E2_v3 is an Ev3-family virtual machine featuring 2 vCPUs and 16.0 GB of RAM, running on an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processor at 2.3 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture with Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization, it provides 1 physical core, 2 threads, and 51 GB of local storage, without GPU acceleration. While offering a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8.0 GB per core, benchmark data places its compute and memory bandwidth performance in the bottom 10% of tested servers. Specifically, stress-ng and Geekbench scores reflect limited processing power, and uncached memory read bandwidth is restricted to 9.34 GB/sec. Consequently, this instance is best suited for memory-optimized, low-compute workloads such as small databases, caching layers, and lightweight web serving where resource density is prioritized over raw processing speed.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.105Score
    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 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.0554 50.00% 50.00% -76.50%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 699,325 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.0606 20.00% 20.00% -42.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,222 2,411 0.507 10.00% 10.00% -6.57%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 28,460 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.265 10.00% 10.00% -12.40%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,445 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.612 10.00% 10.00% -4.79%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 778

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 916

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		1464
    Compression
    		18327
    Encryption
    		414
    Extended Instructions
    		915
    Floating Point Maths
    		2853
    Integer Maths
    		4492
    Physics
    		206
    Prime Numbers
    		13
    Single Threaded
    		1445
    String Sorting
    		2761

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		1222
    Database Operations
    		511
    Memory Latency
    		72
    Memory Read Cached
    		16989
    Memory Read Uncached
    		6876
    Memory Write
    		5715

    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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    E32_v3 32256 GiB0
    E48_v3 48384 GiB0
    E64_v3 64432 GiB0

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