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GS1 by Microsoft Azure

GS1 is a GS family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 28 GiB of memory and 57 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0811 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
28 GiB Memory
57 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1588
(All-cores)
835
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_GS1
Name
GS1
API Reference
Standard_GS1
Description
GS family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
GS
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-06-27T05:56:48.395907

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0811 USD/h 0.439 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0894 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1853 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0906 USD/h 0.49 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1016 USD/h 0.55 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.189 USD/h 0.55 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1064 USD/h 0.576 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1127 USD/h 0.61 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.118 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.122 USD/h 0.66 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1294 USD/h 0.7 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2698B v3
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
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
40 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
40 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, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, xsaveopt, md_clear
Ecpus
1.9
Scalability
95

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring a high memory-to-vCPU ratio and local storage for low-compute, memory-bound workloads.

    Memory Optimized

    Microsoft Azure GS1 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor with 2 vCPUs and 2 physical cores running at 2.0 GHz. It features 28.0 GB of RAM, providing a high memory-to-core ratio of 14.0 GB per core, alongside 57 GB of local storage. Running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance lacks GPU acceleration. Benchmark results place its CPU and memory bandwidth performance largely in the lower tiers, with stress-ng and Passmark scores falling in the bottom 10%, though single-threaded gzip compression performs at an average level. Given its high memory capacity relative to compute resources, the GS1 is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-heavy, low-compute workloads. It is suited for lightweight database hosting, basic caching, and memory-bound legacy applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,055

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,942

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		2084
    Compression
    		28468
    Encryption
    		530
    Extended Instructions
    		1729
    Floating Point Maths
    		4158
    Integer Maths
    		5595
    Physics
    		301
    Prime Numbers
    		22
    Single Threaded
    		1500
    String Sorting
    		3967

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		1621
    Database Operations
    		1067
    Memory Latency
    		68
    Memory Read Cached
    		17580
    Memory Read Uncached
    		8447
    Memory Write
    		7233

    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
    GS2 456 GiB0
    GS4-4 4224 GiB0
    GS3 8112 GiB0
    GS4-8 8224 GiB0
    GS5-8 8448 GiB0
    GS4 16224 GiB0
    GS5-16 16448 GiB0

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