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
2026-10-20T06:51:27.482083

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0222 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
0.0222 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0222 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0223 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.023 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0487 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0227 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0229 USD/h 0.102 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0229 USD/h 0.102 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0233 USD/h 0.104 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0233 USD/h 0.104 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0404 USD/h 0.104 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0201 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0245 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0245 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0245 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0245 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0247 USD/h 0.11 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0254 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0256 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0256 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0256 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0256 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0256 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0256 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0256 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0256 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0256 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0259 USD/h 0.115 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0267 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0267 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0267 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0268 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0272 USD/h 0.121 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0278 USD/h 0.124 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.028 USD/h 0.125 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0282 USD/h 0.1254 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0283 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0283 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.013 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0292 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0292 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0292 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0294 USD/h 0.131 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0298 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0308 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0312 USD/h 0.139 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0323 USD/h 0.144 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0323 USD/h 0.144 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0332 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0332 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0366 USD/h 0.1629 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0366 USD/h 0.163 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0376 USD/h 0.167 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.042 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
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 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

    0.15Score
    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 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.089 50.00% 50.00% -70.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,227,608 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.1 20.00% 20.00% -37.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 890 2,417 0.37 10.00% 10.00% -9.50%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 41,809 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.38 10.00% 10.00% -9.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,530 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 746

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,343

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2,399
    Compression
    		 29,676
    Encryption
    		 759
    Extended Instructions
    		 2,338
    Floating Point Maths
    		 4,973
    Integer Maths
    		 5,780
    Physics
    		 296
    Prime Numbers
    		 16
    Single Threaded
    		 1,530
    String Sorting
    		 3,503

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 889
    Database Operations
    		 1,075
    Memory Latency
    		 62
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18,086
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7,091
    Memory Write
    		 7,125

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 227.85 230.75 1.01×
    bitops
    		 87,711 169,396 1.93×
    branch
    		 116,252 217,863 1.87×
    funccall
    		 411.37 773.88 1.88×
    funcret
    		 7,549 15,864 2.10×
    hash
    		 97,413 182,784 1.88×
    intmath
    		 16,201 30,003 1.85×
    nop
    		 145,328 267,828 1.84×
    prime
    		 244,801 475,360 1.94×
    rotate
    		 71,863 143,985 2.00×
    str
    		 486,362 938,458 1.93×
    wcs
    		 333,193 675,363 2.03×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 1,698 3,210 1.89×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 388.94 757.69 1.95×
    zlib
    		 32.44 78.58 2.42×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 13,167 24,466 1.86×
    clone
    		 520.57 379.27 0.73×
    context
    		 1,370 2,690 1.96×
    cpu-sched
    		 59.09 123.96 2.10×
    eventfd
    		 22,918 113,480 4.95×
    fault
    		 4,757 9,060 1.90×
    fork
    		 2,747 5,103 1.86×
    getrandom
    		 33,050 62,991 1.91×
    hrtimers
    		 143,920 151,826 1.05×
    mprotect
    		 356,143 373,715 1.05×
    mtx
    		 13,247,373 72,510,739 5.47×
    munmap
    		 1,852 3,783 2.04×
    null
    		 155,130 304,850 1.97×
    pipe
    		 698,639 725,839 1.04×
    priv-instr
    		 358,713 672,417 1.87×
    resched
    		 199,260 154,873 0.78×
    switch
    		 79,612 304,006 3.82×
    timermix
    		 157,777 299,190 1.90×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 5,093 5,056 0.99×
    tsc
    		 744,507 1,469,339 1.97×
    usersyscall
    		 222,773 430,766 1.93×
    vdso
    		 55,993,244 109,865,390 1.96×
    vfork
    		 14,541 30,426 2.09×
    x86syscall
    		 1,851,184 3,517,915 1.90×
    yield
    		 1,032,783 1,151,619 1.12×
    zero
    		 1,191,120 2,322,584 1.95×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 10,730 19,843 1.85×
    expmath
    		 1,869 3,654 1.95×
    fma
    		 435,187 856,138 1.97×
    fp
    		 96 198.52 2.07×
    fractal
    		 4 7.4 1.85×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,268 4,288 1.89×
    logmath
    		 3,527 6,670 1.89×
    matrix
    		 2,745 5,257 1.91×
    matrix-3d
    		 575.99 843.9 1.47×
    monte-carlo
    		 84.69 150.93 1.78×
    mpfr
    		 871.67 1,708 1.96×
    powmath
    		 1,222 2,348 1.92×
    trig
    		 1,361 2,603 1.91×
    veccmp
    		 9,763 18,696 1.91×
    vecfp
    		 594.05 1,185 1.99×
    vecmath
    		 1,611 3,106 1.93×
    vecshuf
    		 418.19 789.39 1.89×
    vecwide
    		 17,419 34,472 1.98×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 5.2 10 1.92×
    bsearch
    		 168.79 327.97 1.94×
    bubblesort
    		 0.4 0.8 2.00×
    fibsearch
    		 210.04 402.75 1.92×
    heapsort
    		 6.2 12 1.94×
    hsearch
    		 3,140 5,971 1.90×
    insertionsort
    		 6.2 11.6 1.87×
    malloc
    		 1,363,648 3,369,345 2.47×
    mcontend
    		 162.67 378.28 2.33×
    mergesort
    		 20.4 39 1.91×
    qsort
    		 14 26.4 1.89×
    skiplist
    		 4,264 8,146 1.91×
    tree
    		 0.8 1.8 2.25×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 161,633 196,266 1.21×
    cachehammer
    		 264,719 796,421 3.01×
    cacheline
    		 15.38 32.08 2.09×
    l1cache
    		 146.82 283.07 1.93×
    memcpy
    		 324.98 610.86 1.88×
    memrate
    		 0.97 1.75 1.80×
    memthrash
    		 45.78 82.41 1.80×
    ptr-chase
    		 19,079,899 33,954,042 1.78×
    spinmem
    		 144.39 71.99 0.50×
    stream
    		 24.04 93.17 3.88×
    vm
    		 52,787 166,696 3.16×

    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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