FX2ms_v2 by Microsoft Azure

FX2ms_v2 is a FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 42 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0408 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
42 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2,216
(All-cores)
2,159
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_FX2ms_v2
Name
FX2ms_v2
API Reference
Standard_FX2ms_v2
Description
FXmsv2 family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
FXmsv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-08T14:48:14.810557

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0408 USD/h 0.221 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0408 USD/h 0.221 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0408 USD/h 0.221 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0464 USD/h 0.221 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0421 USD/h 0.228 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0451 USD/h 0.244 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0461 USD/h 0.25 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0466 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0479 USD/h 0.259 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0492 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0492 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0492 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0492 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0495 USD/h 0.268 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0503 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0503 USD/h 0.272 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0516 USD/h 0.279 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0516 USD/h 0.279 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0532 USD/h 0.288 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0532 USD/h 0.288 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0532 USD/h 0.288 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0532 USD/h 0.288 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0573 USD/h 0.31 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0573 USD/h 0.31 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0573 USD/h 0.31 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0577 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0584 USD/h 0.316 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0593 USD/h 0.321 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0593 USD/h 0.321 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0593 USD/h 0.321 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0593 USD/h 0.321 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0623 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.063 USD/h 0.341 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0745 USD/h 0.403 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0798 USD/h 0.432 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
4.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8573C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
48 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
1
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
42 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
42 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A memory-intensive virtual machine pairing high-frequency single-core performance with an exceptional memory-to-vCPU ratio for specialized workloads.

      Memory Optimized

      Microsoft Azure FX2ms_v2 is a memory-optimized virtual machine featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs on a single physical Intel Xeon 8573C core running at 4.2 GHz. It is equipped with 42.0 GB of RAM, providing an exceptionally high memory-to-core ratio of 21.0 GB per vCPU, but lacks local storage. Benchmarks highlight a significant performance tradeoff: the instance delivers top-tier single-core performance, with strong single-threaded text processing and compression, but exhibits poor multi-core performance and weak uncached memory bandwidth due to its limited core count. Qualitatively, this server offers a cost-efficient profile for memory-heavy workloads that do not scale across multiple threads. It is best suited for single-threaded memory-intensive applications, light database caching, and text processing tasks.

      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) 424,783 ops/sec 2,029,678 ops/sec 0.21 50.00% 50.00% -54.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,242,720 ops/sec 12,408,146 ops/sec 0.18 20.00% 20.00% -29.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,053 2,417 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 32,838 MB/sec 108,374 MB/sec 0.3 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,210 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,335

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,876

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 4162
      Compression
      		 40640
      Encryption
      		 2352
      Extended Instructions
      		 2972
      Floating Point Maths
      		 7522
      Integer Maths
      		 10593
      Physics
      		 504
      Prime Numbers
      		 21
      Single Threaded
      		 3210
      String Sorting
      		 5371

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2053
      Database Operations
      		 1758
      Memory Latency
      		 58
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27262
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10392
      Memory Write
      		 9451

      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
      FX4-2ms_v2 284 GiB0
      FX8-2ms_v2 2168 GiB0
      FX4ms_v2 484 GiB0
      FX8-4ms_v2 4168 GiB0
      FX16-4ms_v2 4336 GiB0
      FX12-6ms_v2 6252 GiB0
      FX24-6ms_v2 6504 GiB0

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