E2s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

E2s_v3 is a ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 33 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.016 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
33 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1,627
(All-cores)
1,237
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E2s_v3
Name
E2s_v3
API Reference
Standard_E2s_v3
Description
ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
ESv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-04T07:16:18.816838

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
0.0252 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0459 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
0.0245 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
0.0274 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
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8272CL
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, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, vnmi, md_clear
Ecpus
1.3
Scalability
65

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
    33 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 33 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 memory-to-vCPU ratio for lightweight, memory-bound workloads and small database operations.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure E2s_v3 is an ESv3-family virtual machine featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs and 16.0 GB of RAM, providing an 8.0 GB memory-per-core ratio. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz on the x86_64 architecture, it includes 33 GB of local SSD storage and supports Premium Storage. Benchmark results indicate limited computational and memory bandwidth performance, with stress-ng and Geekbench scores falling into the bottom 10% to 25% of tested servers. Uncached memory read bandwidth is measured at 14.08 GB/sec. Given these performance tradeoffs, the E2s_v3 is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-heavy but compute-light applications. It is best suited for small databases, caching systems, and lightweight web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.14Score
    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) 148,811 ops/sec 1,933,252 ops/sec 0.079 50.00% 50.00% -72.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 992,392 ops/sec 11,794,699 ops/sec 0.083 20.00% 20.00% -39.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,529 2,412 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 24,572 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.23 10.00% 10.00% -14.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,705 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,058

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,279

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 1,976
    Compression
    		 23,509
    Encryption
    		 749
    Extended Instructions
    		 1,642
    Floating Point Maths
    		 2,928
    Integer Maths
    		 5,442
    Physics
    		 260
    Prime Numbers
    		 13
    Single Threaded
    		 1,705
    String Sorting
    		 2,904

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,529
    Database Operations
    		 634
    Memory Latency
    		 58
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,360
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,920
    Memory Write
    		 8,172

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 500.68 498.23 1.00×
    bitops
    		 82,032 85,776 1.05×
    branch
    		 106,821 156,857 1.47×
    funccall
    		 354.5 362.31 1.02×
    funcret
    		 7,223 10,296 1.43×
    hash
    		 87,580 128,112 1.46×
    intmath
    		 14,791 21,881 1.48×
    nop
    		 120,029 110,824 0.92×
    prime
    		 208,248 231,434 1.11×
    rotate
    		 67,493 85,971 1.27×
    str
    		 449,687 536,928 1.19×
    wcs
    		 303,965 314,185 1.03×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 1,559 1,525 0.98×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 371.77 466.61 1.26×
    zlib
    		 37.64 49.27 1.31×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 12,148 16,880 1.39×
    clone
    		 743.39 1,017 1.37×
    context
    		 1,355 1,736 1.28×
    cpu-sched
    		 61.68 132.27 2.14×
    eventfd
    		 21,510 60,280 2.80×
    fault
    		 4,495 6,543 1.46×
    fork
    		 2,420 3,614 1.49×
    getrandom
    		 30,320 34,594 1.14×
    hrtimers
    		 105,133 144,182 1.37×
    mprotect
    		 211,777 211,904 1.00×
    mtx
    		 4,383,338 21,273,724 4.85×
    munmap
    		 1,647 2,380 1.45×
    null
    		 141,784 169,077 1.19×
    pipe
    		 633,719 407,076 0.64×
    priv-instr
    		 313,518 395,979 1.26×
    resched
    		 113,180 83,233 0.74×
    switch
    		 68,993 176,463 2.56×
    timermix
    		 134,085 198,896 1.48×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 3,088 3,184 1.03×
    tsc
    		 701,628 1,252,918 1.79×
    usersyscall
    		 212,282 265,129 1.25×
    vdso
    		 53,179,979 71,124,078 1.34×
    vfork
    		 13,870 21,890 1.58×
    x86syscall
    		 1,580,490 1,943,425 1.23×
    yield
    		 573,431 597,845 1.04×
    zero
    		 1,038,249 1,227,656 1.18×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 10,077 12,597 1.25×
    expmath
    		 1,772 2,504 1.41×
    fma
    		 429,947 640,512 1.49×
    fp
    		 84 110.4 1.31×
    fractal
    		 3.6 4.6 1.28×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,009 3,011 1.50×
    logmath
    		 3,142 4,474 1.42×
    matrix
    		 2,625 2,878 1.10×
    matrix-3d
    		 486.37 359.05 0.74×
    monte-carlo
    		 74.68 104.16 1.39×
    mpfr
    		 765.88 803.86 1.05×
    powmath
    		 1,098 1,552 1.41×
    trig
    		 1,246 1,394 1.12×
    veccmp
    		 9,209 9,829 1.07×
    vecfp
    		 597.54 790.58 1.32×
    vecmath
    		 1,484 2,205 1.49×
    vecshuf
    		 364.87 397.47 1.09×
    vecwide
    		 16,841 18,462 1.10×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 5 5.6 1.12×
    bsearch
    		 158.57 186.94 1.18×
    bubblesort
    		 0.4 0.4 1.00×
    fibsearch
    		 187.7 215.47 1.15×
    heapsort
    		 5.4 6.4 1.19×
    hsearch
    		 2,935 3,405 1.16×
    insertionsort
    		 5.4 5.2 0.96×
    malloc
    		 1,142,394 2,097,928 1.84×
    mcontend
    		 383.12 415.46 1.08×
    mergesort
    		 17.6 23.6 1.34×
    qsort
    		 12.6 15 1.19×
    skiplist
    		 3,950 5,276 1.34×
    tree
    		 0.8 1.2 1.50×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 154,836 186,127 1.20×
    cachehammer
    		 409,487 706,279 1.72×
    cacheline
    		 13.91 25.16 1.81×
    l1cache
    		 133.61 128.64 0.96×
    memcpy
    		 290.41 306.66 1.06×
    memrate
    		 0.96 1.14 1.19×
    memthrash
    		 33.32 62.33 1.87×
    ptr-chase
    		 11,640,643 21,326,979 1.83×
    spinmem
    		 108.59 49.19 0.45×
    stream
    		 24.11 52.37 2.17×
    vm
    		 29,374 55,408 1.89×

    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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