F2s by Microsoft Azure

F2s is a FS family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 8 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.013 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
8 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2,045
(All-cores)
1,038
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F2s
Name
F2s
API Reference
Standard_F2s
Description
FS family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
FS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19.5
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-11-04T00:17:49.207464

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.023 USD/h 0.0988 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.0988 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.0988 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.023 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.023 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.023 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.023 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0439 USD/h 0.099 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0235 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0237 USD/h 0.102 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0237 USD/h 0.102 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0242 USD/h 0.104 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0242 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
0.0254 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0254 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0254 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0254 USD/h 0.109 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0256 USD/h 0.11 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0263 USD/h 0.113 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0265 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0265 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0265 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0265 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0265 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0265 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0265 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0265 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0265 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0268 USD/h 0.115 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0277 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0277 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0277 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0277 USD/h 0.119 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0282 USD/h 0.121 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0289 USD/h 0.124 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0291 USD/h 0.125 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0292 USD/h 0.1254 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0293 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0293 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.013 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0303 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0303 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0303 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0305 USD/h 0.131 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0309 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0319 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0323 USD/h 0.139 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0335 USD/h 0.144 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0335 USD/h 0.144 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0344 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0344 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0379 USD/h 0.1629 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0379 USD/h 0.163 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0389 USD/h 0.167 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0435 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
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 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
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
    8 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 8 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A dedicated dual-core virtual machine with a low memory footprint, designed for basic utility workloads and lightweight development tasks.

    Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure F2s is an x86_64 virtual machine from the FS family, utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features 2 dedicated vCPUs on an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processor running at 2.3 GHz, paired with 4.0 GB of RAM and 8 GB of local storage. The instance is Premium Storage capable but lacks GPU resources. Performance benchmarks place this server in the bottom 10% for most compute and memory tasks, with a stress-ng single-core score of 1037.99 and a Geekbench multi-core score of 1386.0. Database operations and small-model LLM inference perform slightly better, landing in the bottom 25%. Qualitatively, the F2s represents a low-cost option for workloads requiring dedicated CPU allocation over shared-core alternatives. It is best suited for lightweight utility tasks, basic web serving, and development environments that do not require high memory or compute throughput.

    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) 165,456 ops/sec 1,930,206 ops/sec 0.089 50.00% 50.00% -70.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,228,962 ops/sec 11,792,140 ops/sec 0.1 20.00% 20.00% -37.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 930 2,412 0.39 10.00% 10.00% -9.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 39,263 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.35 10.00% 10.00% -10.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,592 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 763

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,386

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2,494
    Compression
    		 29,848
    Encryption
    		 781
    Extended Instructions
    		 2,505
    Floating Point Maths
    		 5,037
    Integer Maths
    		 6,041
    Physics
    		 338
    Prime Numbers
    		 19
    Single Threaded
    		 1,592
    String Sorting
    		 3,652

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 927
    Database Operations
    		 1,098
    Memory Latency
    		 63
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18,644
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7,754
    Memory Write
    		 7,664

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 216.86 233.94 1.08×
    bitops
    		 98,834 195,273 1.98×
    branch
    		 136,292 268,321 1.97×
    funccall
    		 480.12 943.9 1.97×
    funcret
    		 10,019 19,563 1.95×
    hash
    		 112,108 218,462 1.95×
    intmath
    		 20,014 38,308 1.91×
    nop
    		 168,811 331,971 1.97×
    prime
    		 280,290 548,985 1.96×
    rotate
    		 85,247 167,134 1.96×
    str
    		 666,368 1,265,388 1.90×
    wcs
    		 422,288 817,486 1.94×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,159 4,234 1.96×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 530.01 1,037 1.96×
    zlib
    		 44.74 87.45 1.95×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 17,779 33,607 1.89×
    clone
    		 506.5 542.66 1.07×
    context
    		 1,712 3,388 1.98×
    cpu-sched
    		 69.5 122.48 1.76×
    eventfd
    		 33,235 146,389 4.40×
    fault
    		 9,104 15,196 1.67×
    fork
    		 3,495 6,819 1.95×
    getrandom
    		 39,266 77,311 1.97×
    hrtimers
    		 205,216 199,130 0.97×
    mprotect
    		 403,333 428,275 1.06×
    mtx
    		 11,028,273 27,900,531 2.53×
    munmap
    		 2,477 4,659 1.88×
    null
    		 181,477 354,134 1.95×
    pipe
    		 819,464 997,202 1.22×
    priv-instr
    		 403,165 767,706 1.90×
    resched
    		 240,872 175,548 0.73×
    switch
    		 69,299 387,552 5.59×
    timermix
    		 171,731 325,910 1.90×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 5,485 5,332 0.97×
    tsc
    		 873,516 1,712,229 1.96×
    usersyscall
    		 270,458 522,589 1.93×
    vdso
    		 65,467,645 128,253,453 1.96×
    vfork
    		 21,543 46,212 2.15×
    x86syscall
    		 2,050,029 4,038,666 1.97×
    yield
    		 1,263,519 1,171,128 0.93×
    zero
    		 1,383,578 2,703,805 1.95×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 14,318 27,810 1.94×
    expmath
    		 2,374 4,656 1.96×
    fma
    		 584,913 1,141,270 1.95×
    fp
    		 143.5 282.86 1.97×
    fractal
    		 4.6 9 1.96×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,481 4,870 1.96×
    logmath
    		 4,009 7,873 1.96×
    matrix
    		 2,770 5,548 2.00×
    matrix-3d
    		 527.71 889.23 1.69×
    monte-carlo
    		 96.2 191.66 1.99×
    mpfr
    		 1,067 2,088 1.96×
    powmath
    		 1,408 2,761 1.96×
    trig
    		 1,507 2,948 1.96×
    veccmp
    		 13,738 26,795 1.95×
    vecfp
    		 1,994 3,872 1.94×
    vecmath
    		 1,888 3,706 1.96×
    vecshuf
    		 830.08 1,630 1.96×
    vecwide
    		 50,129 98,191 1.96×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 6.4 12.6 1.97×
    bsearch
    		 213.16 420.23 1.97×
    bubblesort
    		 0.6 1.2 2.00×
    fibsearch
    		 216.07 424.49 1.96×
    heapsort
    		 7.6 15.2 2.00×
    hsearch
    		 4,351 8,535 1.96×
    insertionsort
    		 7.2 14.2 1.97×
    malloc
    		 1,705,738 4,187,053 2.45×
    mcontend
    		 135.05 373.72 2.77×
    mergesort
    		 20.6 40.6 1.97×
    qsort
    		 13 25.8 1.98×
    skiplist
    		 4,309 8,459 1.96×
    tree
    		 1.2 2.4 2.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 265,064 266,428 1.01×
    cachehammer
    		 408,069 795,696 1.95×
    cacheline
    		 18.38 37.19 2.02×
    l1cache
    		 200.01 393.28 1.97×
    memcpy
    		 307.21 603.51 1.96×
    memrate
    		 1.16 2.33 2.01×
    memthrash
    		 52.93 91.67 1.73×
    ptr-chase
    		 14,178,342 26,571,657 1.87×
    spinmem
    		 352.38 148.37 0.42×
    stream
    		 26.49 106.28 4.01×
    vm
    		 56,517 203,732 3.60×

    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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