F2alds_v7 by Microsoft Azure

F2alds_v7 is a Faldsv7 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 236 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0171 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
236 GB Storage
Spare SCore
7,535
(All-cores)
3,770
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F2alds_v7
Name
F2alds_v7
API Reference
Standard_F2alds_v7
Description
Faldsv7 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] 2 vCPUs
Family
Faldsv7
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-22T00:48:07.111433

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0171 USD/h 0.0925 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.0925 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0249 USD/h 0.135 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0264 USD/h 0.143 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0264 USD/h 0.143 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0264 USD/h 0.143 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0264 USD/h 0.143 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0264 USD/h 0.143 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0277 USD/h 0.143 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0283 USD/h 0.153 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.029 USD/h 0.157 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0307 USD/h 0.166 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.032 USD/h 0.173 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.032 USD/h 0.173 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.032 USD/h 0.173 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0325 USD/h 0.176 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0325 USD/h 0.176 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0333 USD/h 0.18 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0333 USD/h 0.18 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0344 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0344 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0353 USD/h 0.191 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0366 USD/h 0.198 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0379 USD/h 0.205 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0379 USD/h 0.205 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0423 USD/h 0.229 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
4.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
9V45
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, svm, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, arat, npt, nrip_save, tsc_scale, vmcb_clean, flushbyasid, decodeassists, pausefilter, pfthreshold, v_vmsave_vmload, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, rdpid, fsrm, avx512_vp2intersect
Ecpus
2
Scalability
100

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
    236 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 236 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A high-frequency, low-memory virtual machine equipped with local NVMe storage, specifically optimized for demanding single-threaded compute workloads.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure F2alds_v7 is a compute-optimized virtual machine powered by a 4.5 GHz AMD EPYC 9V45 processor with 2 dedicated vCPUs and 2 physical cores. Running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this instance features a low-memory configuration of 4.0 GB RAM alongside 236 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. The server delivers top-tier single-core CPU performance, ranking in the top 10% for single-threaded stress-ng and compression benchmarks. However, its multi-threaded performance and memory bandwidth are average to weak, reflecting its resource-constrained profile. With no integrated GPUs, this server represents a cost-efficient choice for workloads requiring high clock speeds but minimal memory. It is best suited for single-threaded processing, lightweight database tasks, and basic web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.32Score
    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) 276,359 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.15 50.00% 50.00% -61.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,884,048 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.24 20.00% 20.00% -25.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,778 2,416 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 243,043 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 2.2 10.00% 10.00% +8.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 3,784 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.6 10.00% 10.00% +4.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 6,893
    Compression
    		 66,119
    Encryption
    		 3,168
    Extended Instructions
    		 5,698
    Floating Point Maths
    		 15,301
    Integer Maths
    		 15,278
    Physics
    		 984
    Prime Numbers
    		 57
    Single Threaded
    		 3,784
    String Sorting
    		 9,107

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,778
    Database Operations
    		 2,850
    Memory Latency
    		 81
    Memory Read Cached
    		 33,916
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 30,273
    Memory Write
    		 30,187

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 569.66 570.26 1.00×
    bitops
    		 231,448 461,037 1.99×
    branch
    		 173,716 355,404 2.05×
    funccall
    		 909.38 1,799 1.98×
    funcret
    		 26,787 53,391 1.99×
    hash
    		 218,448 430,406 1.97×
    intmath
    		 80,982 158,688 1.96×
    nop
    		 432,584 858,006 1.98×
    prime
    		 624,347 1,233,242 1.98×
    rotate
    		 142,156 283,256 1.99×
    str
    		 1,600,310 3,163,388 1.98×
    wcs
    		 1,078,037 2,140,201 1.99×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 5,452 10,783 1.98×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 1,205 2,347 1.95×
    zlib
    		 70.39 154.96 2.20×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 27,180 51,939 1.91×
    clone
    		 1,063 261.49 0.25×
    context
    		 5,497 10,900 1.98×
    cpu-sched
    		 21.67 9.72 0.45×
    eventfd
    		 50,922 175,850 3.45×
    fault
    		 12,413 21,607 1.74×
    fork
    		 6,446 11,975 1.86×
    getrandom
    		 77,900 146,443 1.88×
    hrtimers
    		 262,066 268,162 1.02×
    mprotect
    		 628,917 640,015 1.02×
    mtx
    		 20,874,848 54,483,726 2.61×
    munmap
    		 4,433 8,754 1.97×
    null
    		 584,766 1,176,498 2.01×
    pipe
    		 2,642,066 1,436,084 0.54×
    priv-instr
    		 544,037 1,155,156 2.12×
    resched
    		 674,067 688,095 1.02×
    switch
    		 277,569 399,905 1.44×
    timermix
    		 213,298 424,779 1.99×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 18,300 16,685 0.91×
    tsc
    		 886,030 1,765,152 1.99×
    usersyscall
    		 474,976 925,295 1.95×
    vdso
    		 109,503,547 218,255,594 1.99×
    vfork
    		 39,980 76,545 1.91×
    x86syscall
    		 8,140,299 16,233,394 1.99×
    yield
    		 1,433,625 1,451,944 1.01×
    zero
    		 4,287,115 8,350,496 1.95×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 17,650 34,750 1.97×
    expmath
    		 4,029 7,930 1.97×
    fma
    		 1,573,802 3,119,230 1.98×
    fp
    		 207.56 420.68 2.03×
    fractal
    		 9 17.4 1.93×
    hyperbolic
    		 5,475 10,800 1.97×
    logmath
    		 5,673 11,316 1.99×
    matrix
    		 9,317 18,400 1.97×
    matrix-3d
    		 105.27 196.59 1.87×
    monte-carlo
    		 290.4 570.93 1.97×
    mpfr
    		 2,432 4,810 1.98×
    powmath
    		 1,844 3,671 1.99×
    trig
    		 2,455 4,869 1.98×
    veccmp
    		 30,350 60,174 1.98×
    vecfp
    		 2,365 4,772 2.02×
    vecmath
    		 4,773 9,457 1.98×
    vecshuf
    		 996.12 1,988 2.00×
    vecwide
    		 40,569 80,427 1.98×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 13 25 1.92×
    bsearch
    		 352.91 725.9 2.06×
    bubblesort
    		 1.2 2.6 2.17×
    fibsearch
    		 434.31 850.63 1.96×
    heapsort
    		 14.4 28.6 1.99×
    hsearch
    		 13,528 26,649 1.97×
    insertionsort
    		 9.6 24.2 2.52×
    malloc
    		 5,208,445 10,577,226 2.03×
    mcontend
    		 276.97 388.28 1.40×
    mergesort
    		 39.2 78.4 2.00×
    qsort
    		 26 52.4 2.02×
    skiplist
    		 8,421 16,740 1.99×
    tree
    		 2.6 5.2 2.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 1,112,397 1,143,946 1.03×
    cachehammer
    		 286,722 564,170 1.97×
    cacheline
    		 56.92 108.7 1.91×
    l1cache
    		 1,379 2,717 1.97×
    memcpy
    		 810.94 1,613 1.99×
    memrate
    		 4.73 5.9 1.25×
    memthrash
    		 80.19 146.6 1.83×
    ptr-chase
    		 87,742,255 101,508,962 1.16×
    spinmem
    		 356.58 156.54 0.44×
    stream
    		 151.14 407.75 2.70×
    vm
    		 222,952 290,478 1.30×

    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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