F2als_v6 by Microsoft Azure

F2als_v6 is a Falsv6 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0145 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
6,117
(All-cores)
3,079
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F2als_v6
Name
F2als_v6
API Reference
Standard_F2als_v6
Description
Falsv6 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 2 vCPUs
Family
Falsv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
13
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-01T17:16:08.867244

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0152 USD/h -
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0239 USD/h -
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0249 USD/h -
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0253 USD/h -
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0253 USD/h -
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0262 USD/h -
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0262 USD/h -
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.027 USD/h -
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.027 USD/h -
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0281 USD/h -
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.029 USD/h -
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0299 USD/h -
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0309 USD/h -
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.032 USD/h -
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.032 USD/h -
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.034 USD/h -
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0386 USD/h -
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0416 USD/h -
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0145 USD/h 0.0782 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0224 USD/h 0.121 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0224 USD/h 0.121 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
- 0.121 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.0235 USD/h 0.127 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0246 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0249 USD/h 0.135 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0249 USD/h 0.135 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0253 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
- 0.139 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0261 USD/h 0.141 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0262 USD/h 0.142 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0262 USD/h 0.142 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0268 USD/h 0.145 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0268 USD/h 0.145 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.027 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.027 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.027 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0297 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
- 0.146 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0275 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0275 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
- 0.152 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
- 0.155 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.029 USD/h 0.157 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.029 USD/h 0.157 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0312 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0314 USD/h 0.17 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.032 USD/h 0.173 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0351 USD/h 0.19 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0359 USD/h 0.194 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0359 USD/h 0.194 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0416 USD/h 0.225 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
- 0.252 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
3.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
9V74
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
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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, 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, 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
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
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A dedicated dual-core AMD processor instance with a low-memory footprint, optimized for single-threaded tasks and lightweight compute workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure F2als_v6 is an x86_64 virtual machine from the Falsv6 family, featuring a dedicated AMD EPYC 9V74 processor with 2 vCPUs and 2 physical cores running at 3.7 GHz. It is configured with 4.0 GB of RAM, providing a low memory-to-CPU ratio of 2.0 GB per core, and contains no local storage or GPUs. Performance benchmarks indicate strong single-core capabilities, highlighted by a Geekbench single-core score of 2049.0 and strong text processing performance. However, multi-core and memory-bound operations, such as database tasks and multi-threaded decompression, perform in the lower tier. This server is qualitatively cost-effective for lightweight, compute-focused workloads that do not require substantial memory or local storage. It is best suited for single-threaded applications, basic text processing, and small-scale utility services.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.28Score
      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) 285,035 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.15 50.00% 50.00% -61.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,547,762 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.21 20.00% 20.00% -27.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,494 2,416 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 135,481 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,907 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,049

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,749

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 5,405
      Compression
      		 51,393
      Encryption
      		 2,604
      Extended Instructions
      		 4,715
      Floating Point Maths
      		 10,608
      Integer Maths
      		 12,023
      Physics
      		 697
      Prime Numbers
      		 39
      Single Threaded
      		 2,907
      String Sorting
      		 7,699

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,494
      Database Operations
      		 1,965
      Memory Latency
      		 77
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27,897
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 27,570
      Memory Write
      		 26,863

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 612.99 615.59 1.00×
      bitops
      		 160,475 318,502 1.98×
      branch
      		 212,917 423,132 1.99×
      funccall
      		 619.25 1,224 1.98×
      funcret
      		 20,962 40,777 1.95×
      hash
      		 163,543 322,581 1.97×
      intmath
      		 66,813 132,393 1.98×
      nop
      		 628,329 1,242,798 1.98×
      prime
      		 483,380 959,393 1.98×
      rotate
      		 88,325 174,580 1.98×
      str
      		 1,058,687 2,109,751 1.99×
      wcs
      		 703,135 1,390,786 1.98×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,751 7,412 1.98×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 915.08 1,792 1.96×
      zlib
      		 65.57 141.28 2.15×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 23,765 45,986 1.94×
      clone
      		 779.03 514.48 0.66×
      context
      		 3,062 6,048 1.98×
      cpu-sched
      		 67.67 125.08 1.85×
      eventfd
      		 44,773 162,019 3.62×
      fault
      		 10,961 19,320 1.76×
      fork
      		 5,640 10,415 1.85×
      getrandom
      		 53,009 103,382 1.95×
      hrtimers
      		 250,063 250,123 1.00×
      mprotect
      		 534,160 546,942 1.02×
      mtx
      		 35,203,052 290,354,948 8.25×
      munmap
      		 3,846 7,386 1.92×
      null
      		 354,207 697,301 1.97×
      pipe
      		 1,191,779 1,137,777 0.95×
      priv-instr
      		 447,927 883,003 1.97×
      resched
      		 268,896 201,028 0.75×
      switch
      		 250,336 385,187 1.54×
      timermix
      		 195,021 388,036 1.99×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 13,520 13,455 1.00×
      tsc
      		 785,856 1,553,625 1.98×
      usersyscall
      		 335,073 659,248 1.97×
      vdso
      		 94,580,349 186,995,042 1.98×
      vfork
      		 33,801 67,653 2.00×
      x86syscall
      		 4,173,246 8,263,448 1.98×
      yield
      		 1,387,418 1,917,791 1.38×
      zero
      		 2,786,137 5,494,308 1.97×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 16,605 32,421 1.95×
      expmath
      		 3,056 6,014 1.97×
      fma
      		 921,060 1,818,902 1.97×
      fp
      		 251.86 497.62 1.98×
      fractal
      		 7.4 14.6 1.97×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,827 7,562 1.98×
      logmath
      		 4,566 8,985 1.97×
      matrix
      		 4,935 9,740 1.97×
      matrix-3d
      		 150.54 285.4 1.90×
      monte-carlo
      		 182.48 364.06 2.00×
      mpfr
      		 1,700 3,355 1.97×
      powmath
      		 1,325 2,616 1.97×
      trig
      		 1,873 3,702 1.98×
      veccmp
      		 18,998 37,659 1.98×
      vecfp
      		 1,813 3,589 1.98×
      vecmath
      		 4,027 7,927 1.97×
      vecshuf
      		 638.7 1,261 1.97×
      vecwide
      		 28,636 56,587 1.98×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 10.4 20.8 2.00×
      bsearch
      		 306.64 609.6 1.99×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 1.8 2.25×
      fibsearch
      		 380.77 752.87 1.98×
      heapsort
      		 10.8 21.4 1.98×
      hsearch
      		 11,092 22,214 2.00×
      insertionsort
      		 13.2 26 1.97×
      malloc
      		 3,547,331 7,665,047 2.16×
      mcontend
      		 230.24 366.37 1.59×
      mergesort
      		 33.6 68 2.02×
      qsort
      		 22 43.4 1.97×
      skiplist
      		 7,109 13,970 1.97×
      tree
      		 2.2 4 1.82×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 910,235 950,082 1.04×
      cachehammer
      		 263,392 527,486 2.00×
      cacheline
      		 41.74 89.95 2.16×
      l1cache
      		 262.7 513.17 1.95×
      memcpy
      		 448.68 886.73 1.98×
      memrate
      		 3.74 4.72 1.26×
      memthrash
      		 60.93 129.02 2.12×
      ptr-chase
      		 44,148,522 47,013,608 1.06×
      spinmem
      		 320.39 160.17 0.50×
      stream
      		 128.88 291.99 2.27×
      vm
      		 200,178 263,270 1.32×

      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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