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F72s_v2 by Microsoft Azure

F72s_v2 is a FSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 72 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 72 vCPUs, 144 GiB of memory and 590 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3996 USD per hour.
72 vCPU
144 GiB Memory
590 GB Storage
Spare SCore
67087
(All-cores)
1455
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F72s_v2
Name
F72s_v2
API Reference
Standard_F72s_v2
Description
FSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 72 vCPUs
Family
FSv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-27T03:02:49.289350

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.5627 USD/h 3.045 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.6699 USD/h 3.045 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.9257 USD/h 3.045 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.6017 USD/h 3.045 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.5655 USD/h 3.06 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.5655 USD/h 3.06 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.5655 USD/h 3.06 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.5673 USD/h 3.06 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 3.06 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 3.06 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.5867 USD/h 3.175 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.5867 USD/h 3.175 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.6163 USD/h 3.335 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.3287 USD/h 3.335 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.6191 USD/h 3.35 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.622 USD/h 3.366 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.6387 USD/h 3.456 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.6387 USD/h 3.456 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.9151 USD/h 3.456 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.639 USD/h 3.458 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.6453 USD/h 3.492 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.6453 USD/h 3.492 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.6453 USD/h 3.492 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.6453 USD/h 3.492 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.6453 USD/h 3.492 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.6453 USD/h 3.492 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.6474 USD/h 3.492 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.652 USD/h 3.528 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.5029 USD/h 3.636 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.6719 USD/h 3.636 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.6719 USD/h 3.636 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.6729 USD/h 3.641 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.6687 USD/h 3.672 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.6786 USD/h 3.672 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.6786 USD/h 3.672 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.6786 USD/h 3.672 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.7026 USD/h 3.802 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.7052 USD/h 3.816 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.7099 USD/h 3.8412 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.7106 USD/h 3.845 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.7118 USD/h 3.852 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.7185 USD/h 3.888 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.3996 USD/h 3.996 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.7385 USD/h 3.996 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.7385 USD/h 3.996 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.7409 USD/h 4.009 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.7577 USD/h 4.1 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.7758 USD/h 4.198 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.7829 USD/h 4.223 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.788 USD/h 4.264 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.839 USD/h 4.54 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.839 USD/h 4.54 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.8708 USD/h 4.712 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.8715 USD/h 4.716 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.923 USD/h 4.9945 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
1.0513 USD/h 5.689 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
1.133 USD/h 6.131 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
72
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
36
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8272CL
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
45 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
96 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
46.1
Scalability
128.06

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
144 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
144 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    590 GB
    Storages
    • 590 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A high-density compute instance featuring seventy-two dedicated cores and strong multi-threaded performance for parallel processing workloads.

    Compute Optimized

    Microsoft Azure F72s_v2 is a compute-optimized virtual machine from the FSv2 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor on the x86_64 architecture. Operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, it delivers 72 dedicated vCPUs across 36 physical cores, 144.0 GB of RAM, and 590 GB of local storage. Benchmark results highlight strong multi-core CPU performance and high memory bandwidth, placing it in the top 25% tier for parallelized processing tasks. Conversely, single-core performance and LLM text generation speeds remain average to weak. This hardware profile provides high compute density, making it a cost-effective option for parallel workloads that do not demand high memory-to-CPU ratios. The F72s_v2 is well-suited for multi-threaded applications, software compilation, ray tracing, and high-throughput web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.5Score
    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) 6,468,370 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 3.41 50.00% 50.00% +84.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 36,945,788 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 3.2 20.00% 20.00% +26.20%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,612 2,411 1.08 10.00% 10.00% +0.77%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 220,404 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 2.05 10.00% 10.00% +7.44%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,114 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.894 10.00% 10.00% -1.11%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,252

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 12,846

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 50595
    Compression
    		 975406
    Encryption
    		 30480
    Extended Instructions
    		 62396
    Floating Point Maths
    		 120390
    Integer Maths
    		 224679
    Physics
    		 4409
    Prime Numbers
    		 260
    Single Threaded
    		 2114
    String Sorting
    		 110551

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2612
    Database Operations
    		 21218
    Memory Latency
    		 54
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24631
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10153
    Memory Write
    		 9032

    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

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    F2s_v2 24 GiB0
    F4s_v2 48 GiB0
    F8s_v2 816 GiB0
    F16s_v2 1632 GiB0
    F32s_v2 3264 GiB0
    F48s_v2 4896 GiB0
    F64s_v2 64128 GiB0

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