F2s_v2 by Microsoft Azure

F2s_v2 is a FSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 16 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0111 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
16 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1,846
(All-cores)
1,403
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F2s_v2
Name
F2s_v2
API Reference
Standard_F2s_v2
Description
FSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
FSv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
18
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-25T13:14:46.940378

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0156 USD/h 0.0846 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0156 USD/h 0.0846 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0186 USD/h 0.0846 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0336 USD/h 0.0846 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0157 USD/h 0.085 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0157 USD/h 0.085 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0157 USD/h 0.085 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0158 USD/h 0.085 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.085 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.085 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0163 USD/h 0.0882 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0163 USD/h 0.0882 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0171 USD/h 0.0927 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.031 USD/h 0.0927 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0172 USD/h 0.0931 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0173 USD/h 0.0935 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0177 USD/h 0.096 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0177 USD/h 0.096 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0214 USD/h 0.096 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0178 USD/h 0.0961 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0179 USD/h 0.097 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0179 USD/h 0.097 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0179 USD/h 0.097 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0179 USD/h 0.097 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0179 USD/h 0.097 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0179 USD/h 0.097 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.018 USD/h 0.097 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0181 USD/h 0.098 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0186 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0187 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0187 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0187 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0184 USD/h 0.102 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0188 USD/h 0.102 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0188 USD/h 0.102 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0196 USD/h 0.106 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0196 USD/h 0.106 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0196 USD/h 0.106 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0197 USD/h 0.1067 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0198 USD/h 0.107 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0198 USD/h 0.107 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.02 USD/h 0.108 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0111 USD/h 0.111 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0205 USD/h 0.111 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0205 USD/h 0.111 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0205 USD/h 0.111 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0211 USD/h 0.114 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0216 USD/h 0.117 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0217 USD/h 0.117 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0218 USD/h 0.118 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0233 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0233 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0242 USD/h 0.131 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0242 USD/h 0.131 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0257 USD/h 0.1389 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0292 USD/h 0.158 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0314 USD/h 0.17 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8272CL
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 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, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, vnmi, md_clear
Ecpus
1.3
Scalability
65

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
    16 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 16 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An entry-level, compute-optimized virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing and a balanced, low-capacity memory footprint for lightweight workloads.

    Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure F2s_v2 is an x86_64 compute-optimized virtual machine from the FSv2 family, powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz. It provides 2 vCPUs from a single physical core, 4.0 GB of system memory, and 16 GB of Premium Storage-capable local storage. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance supports AVX-512F and AES instructions. Performance benchmarks show average single-core capabilities, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1252.0 and gzip compression of 23.99 GB/sec, but multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics remain in the lower percentiles. Due to its 4.0 GB memory constraint and lack of GPU acceleration, the F2s_v2 is best suited for lightweight, compute-bound workloads, basic single-threaded batch processing, and small-scale web serving or development environments.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.14Score
    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) 164,848 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.084 50.00% 50.00% -71.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,113,062 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.092 20.00% 20.00% -38.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 970 2,416 0.4 10.00% 10.00% -8.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 27,130 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.25 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,969 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,252

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,447

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2,220
    Compression
    		 27,632
    Encryption
    		 847
    Extended Instructions
    		 1,730
    Floating Point Maths
    		 3,320
    Integer Maths
    		 6,174
    Physics
    		 272
    Prime Numbers
    		 13
    Single Threaded
    		 1,969
    String Sorting
    		 3,272

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 967
    Database Operations
    		 709
    Memory Latency
    		 53
    Memory Read Cached
    		 23,393
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,099
    Memory Write
    		 8,639

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 756.65 755.39 1.00×
    bitops
    		 111,037 127,875 1.15×
    branch
    		 153,455 228,421 1.49×
    funccall
    		 531.76 559.02 1.05×
    funcret
    		 11,120 16,023 1.44×
    hash
    		 124,544 179,208 1.44×
    intmath
    		 21,919 32,681 1.49×
    nop
    		 186,831 163,951 0.88×
    prime
    		 307,272 347,928 1.13×
    rotate
    		 95,675 130,530 1.36×
    str
    		 721,516 808,433 1.12×
    wcs
    		 464,015 504,454 1.09×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 2,394 2,358 0.99×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 585.89 707.86 1.21×
    zlib
    		 48.84 82.85 1.70×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 20,095 27,730 1.38×
    clone
    		 524.11 421.2 0.80×
    context
    		 1,914 2,564 1.34×
    cpu-sched
    		 63.6 125.54 1.97×
    eventfd
    		 34,348 102,744 2.99×
    fault
    		 9,592 12,994 1.35×
    fork
    		 3,971 5,876 1.48×
    getrandom
    		 43,741 52,839 1.21×
    hrtimers
    		 173,592 171,570 0.99×
    mprotect
    		 310,638 309,618 1.00×
    mtx
    		 10,454,901 18,019,402 1.72×
    munmap
    		 2,757 3,881 1.41×
    null
    		 200,911 252,410 1.26×
    pipe
    		 998,661 669,957 0.67×
    priv-instr
    		 440,898 571,284 1.30×
    resched
    		 180,351 123,079 0.68×
    switch
    		 116,900 296,574 2.54×
    timermix
    		 181,249 285,413 1.57×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 4,334 4,050 0.93×
    tsc
    		 978,483 1,344,631 1.37×
    usersyscall
    		 301,389 392,018 1.30×
    vdso
    		 73,268,217 102,252,287 1.40×
    vfork
    		 26,369 43,171 1.64×
    x86syscall
    		 2,272,507 2,842,332 1.25×
    yield
    		 1,024,923 902,913 0.88×
    zero
    		 1,515,962 1,849,404 1.22×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 15,901 20,109 1.26×
    expmath
    		 2,650 4,036 1.52×
    fma
    		 637,022 1,091,166 1.71×
    fp
    		 159.94 211.2 1.32×
    fractal
    		 5.2 7.8 1.50×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,773 4,313 1.56×
    logmath
    		 4,486 6,643 1.48×
    matrix
    		 3,049 4,761 1.56×
    matrix-3d
    		 637.44 551.78 0.87×
    monte-carlo
    		 106.62 147.73 1.39×
    mpfr
    		 1,190 1,291 1.08×
    powmath
    		 1,570 2,392 1.52×
    trig
    		 1,686 2,239 1.33×
    veccmp
    		 15,046 15,213 1.01×
    vecfp
    		 2,205 2,763 1.25×
    vecmath
    		 2,088 3,301 1.58×
    vecshuf
    		 891.32 975.38 1.09×
    vecwide
    		 54,628 64,349 1.18×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 7.2 8.4 1.17×
    bsearch
    		 239.41 272.05 1.14×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 0.8 1.00×
    fibsearch
    		 240.02 271.45 1.13×
    heapsort
    		 8.6 10.4 1.21×
    hsearch
    		 4,814 6,081 1.26×
    insertionsort
    		 8 8 1.00×
    malloc
    		 1,774,565 3,274,854 1.85×
    mcontend
    		 517.24 629.33 1.22×
    mergesort
    		 23 31 1.35×
    qsort
    		 14.6 17 1.16×
    skiplist
    		 4,815 6,782 1.41×
    tree
    		 1.4 2 1.43×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 311,918 306,398 0.98×
    cachehammer
    		 417,952 755,004 1.81×
    cacheline
    		 19.55 39.87 2.04×
    l1cache
    		 225.25 243.69 1.08×
    memcpy
    		 340.73 370.52 1.09×
    memrate
    		 1.17 1.54 1.32×
    memthrash
    		 57.55 75.29 1.31×
    ptr-chase
    		 18,584,259 25,233,458 1.36×
    spinmem
    		 333.38 177.53 0.53×
    stream
    		 26.92 66.02 2.45×
    vm
    		 56,387 76,584 1.36×

    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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