F2 by Microsoft Azure

F2 is a F family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 33 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.013 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
33 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1,698
(All-cores)
871
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F2
Name
F2
API Reference
Standard_F2
Description
F family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
F
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
29.5
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-09-05T05:40:20.070519

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0201 USD/h 0.0988 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.0988 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.0988 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0202 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0202 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0202 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0214 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0609 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0206 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0208 USD/h 0.102 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0208 USD/h 0.102 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0212 USD/h 0.104 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0212 USD/h 0.104 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0505 USD/h 0.104 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0211 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0222 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0222 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0222 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0222 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0224 USD/h 0.11 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.023 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0232 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0232 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0232 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0232 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0232 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0232 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0232 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0232 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0232 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0235 USD/h 0.115 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0242 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0242 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0242 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0243 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0246 USD/h 0.121 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0252 USD/h 0.124 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0255 USD/h 0.125 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0255 USD/h 0.1254 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0257 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0257 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.013 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0265 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0265 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0265 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0267 USD/h 0.131 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0271 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0279 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0283 USD/h 0.139 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0293 USD/h 0.144 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0293 USD/h 0.144 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0301 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0301 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0332 USD/h 0.1629 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0332 USD/h 0.163 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0341 USD/h 0.167 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0381 USD/h 0.187 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 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, 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, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, md_clear
Ecpus
1.9
Scalability
95

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    33 GB
    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 budget-friendly, dedicated dual-core server with bundled local storage for lightweight utility workloads and basic development environments.

    Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure F2 is an x86_64 virtual machine in the F family, utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is equipped with 2 dedicated physical cores on an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processor running at 2.3 GHz, 4.0 GB of RAM, and 33 GB of local storage. The instance lacks GPU acceleration and complimentary public IPv4 addresses. Benchmark data indicates limited performance, with CPU, memory bandwidth, and database operations scoring in the bottom 10% of tested servers. It shows slightly better but still weak results in extended instruction sets and small-model LLM inference. Qualitatively, the F2 provides a low-cost option for dedicated compute resources, though it presents a clear tradeoff in processing speed and memory capacity. It is best suited for lightweight workloads, basic web serving, and development environments.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.151Score
    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) 172,938 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0902 50.00% 50.00% -70.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,227,608 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.105 20.00% 20.00% -36.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 888.6 2,418 0.367 10.00% 10.00% -9.54%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 41,809 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.387 10.00% 10.00% -9.06%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,530 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.647 10.00% 10.00% -4.26%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 746

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,343

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2399
    Compression
    		 29676
    Encryption
    		 759
    Extended Instructions
    		 2338
    Floating Point Maths
    		 4973
    Integer Maths
    		 5780
    Physics
    		 296
    Prime Numbers
    		 16
    Single Threaded
    		 1530
    String Sorting
    		 3503

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 889
    Database Operations
    		 1075
    Memory Latency
    		 62
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18086
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7091
    Memory Write
    		 7125

    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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