F2as_v6 by Microsoft Azure

F2as_v6 is a Fasv6 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0163 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
6,119
(All-cores)
3,080
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F2as_v6
Name
F2as_v6
API Reference
Standard_F2as_v6
Description
Fasv6 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 2 vCPUs
Family
Fasv6
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
13
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-23T00:55:48.153571

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0163 USD/h 0.0882 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.0882 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.0882 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0253 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0253 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0253 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0253 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0289 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.0264 USD/h 0.143 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.027 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0277 USD/h 0.15 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0284 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0285 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0285 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.029 USD/h 0.157 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0294 USD/h 0.159 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0296 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0303 USD/h 0.164 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0303 USD/h 0.164 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0305 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0305 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.0305 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0305 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0305 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0305 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0305 USD/h 0.165 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0172 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0318 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0318 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0318 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.035 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0323 USD/h 0.175 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0329 USD/h 0.178 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0329 USD/h 0.178 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0329 USD/h 0.178 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0338 USD/h 0.183 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0349 USD/h 0.189 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0353 USD/h 0.191 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0355 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.036 USD/h 0.195 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.036 USD/h 0.195 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.036 USD/h 0.195 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0384 USD/h 0.208 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0395 USD/h 0.214 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0405 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0405 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0438 USD/h 0.237 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0469 USD/h 0.254 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0469 USD/h 0.254 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0525 USD/h 0.284 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
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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 dual-core x86_64 instance delivering strong single-threaded CPU performance with dedicated AMD EPYC resources and a balanced memory profile.

      General PurposeCompute Optimized

      Microsoft Azure F2as_v6 is an x86_64 virtual machine from the Fasv6 family, powered by a dedicated AMD EPYC 9V74 processor running at 3.7 GHz. It features 2 vCPUs across 2 physical cores, 8.0 GB of RAM, and no local storage, though it supports Premium Storage. Under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance delivers strong single-core performance, ranking in the top 25% for stress-ng and Geekbench single-core benchmarks. However, it exhibits weak multi-core scaling and low memory bandwidth, with large-block read speeds limited to 38.2 GB/sec. This resource profile makes the F2as_v6 suitable for light, single-threaded workloads, basic text processing, and small-scale LLM inference, while rendering it less optimal for memory-heavy database operations, software compilation, or high-throughput web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.29Score
      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) 284,756 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.15 50.00% 50.00% -61.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,552,639 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.22 20.00% 20.00% -26.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,564 2,416 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 135,108 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,904 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,056

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,781

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 5,383
      Compression
      		 50,898
      Encryption
      		 2,600
      Extended Instructions
      		 4,704
      Floating Point Maths
      		 10,592
      Integer Maths
      		 12,022
      Physics
      		 693
      Prime Numbers
      		 39
      Single Threaded
      		 2,904
      String Sorting
      		 7,617

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,564
      Database Operations
      		 2,036
      Memory Latency
      		 76
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27,899
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 27,576
      Memory Write
      		 26,835

      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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