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GS1 by Microsoft Azure

Name: GS1
Brand: Microsoft Azure

GS1 is a GS family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 28 GiB of memory and 60 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0811 USD per hour.

2 vCPU

28 GiB Memory

60 GB Storage

Spare SCore

1,588
(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
Average Time To Start	20
Status	planned-for-retirement
Observed At	2026-11-09T17:03:20.467333

Availability

REGION / ID	SPOT	ONDEMAND
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	0.1334 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	48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total	96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache	32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total	64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache	1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total	3 MiB
CPU L3 Cache	48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total	48 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

ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count	0
Accelerator Memory Min	0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total	0 MiB
Accelerators

STORAGE
Storage Size	60 GB
Storage Type	ssd
Storages	60 GB ssd (temp disk)

NETWORK
Inbound Traffic	0 GB/month
Outbound Traffic	0 GB/month
IPv4	0

CPU and System Topology

Server Description

An x86 virtual machine offering a high memory to core ratio and local storage for lightweight memory dependent workloads.

Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

Microsoft Azure GS1 is a memory-optimized virtual machine featuring 2 vCPUs and 28.0 GB of RAM, running on a dedicated Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor at 2.0 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture under Microsoft Hyper-V, it includes 57 GB of local storage and no GPU. Benchmarks show poor to weak performance across most categories, with stress-ng CPU scores and large-block memory bandwidth falling into the bottom 10%. However, it maintains average single-threaded gzip compression at 23.85 GB/sec. The instance's high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 14.0 GB per core makes it suitable for memory-intensive but computationally light workloads, such as basic caching or small database tasks, though it presents a clear tradeoff in raw processing power.

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

0.2Score

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
Component	Raw		Reference		Normalized	Target	Actual	Impact
Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET)	231,009	ops/sec	1,922,940	ops/sec	0.12	50.00%	50.00%	-65.00%
Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET)	1,712,209	ops/sec	11,797,257	ops/sec	0.14	20.00%	20.00%	-33.00%
PassMark Memory Mark (composite)	1,621		2,406		0.67	10.00%	10.00%	-3.90%
Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3)	57,816	MB/sec	108,657	MB/sec	0.53	10.00%	10.00%	-6.20%
PassMark single-thread CPU	1,500	Mops/s	2,365	Mops/s	0.62	10.00%	10.00%	-4.70%

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Score: 1,055

Geekbench Multi-Core

Score: 1,942

Passmark CPU Scores

BENCHMARK	SCORE
Mark	2,084
Compression	28,468
Encryption	530
Extended Instructions	1,729
Floating Point Maths	4,158
Integer Maths	5,595
Physics	301
Prime Numbers	22
Single Threaded	1,500
String Sorting	3,967

Passmark Memory Scores

BENCHMARK	SCORE
Memory Mark	1,621
Database Operations	1,067
Memory Latency	68
Memory Read Cached	17,580
Memory Read Uncached	8,447
Memory Write	7,233

Stress-ng Stressors

CPU integer	Single	Multi	Scaling
atomic	206.04	187.89	0.91×
bitops	93,387	184,534	1.98×
branch	98,192	194,461	1.98×
funccall	454.66	892.09	1.96×
funcret	8,506	16,685	1.96×
hash	108,099	212,857	1.97×
intmath	43,658	86,046	1.97×
nop	134,193	264,537	1.97×
prime	287,922	567,085	1.97×
rotate	69,879	138,046	1.98×
str	583,570	1,265,750	2.17×
wcs	424,102	855,291	2.02×

Cryptography	Single	Multi	Scaling
crypt	2,032	3,996	1.97×

Compression	Single	Multi	Scaling
jpeg	495.78	968.51	1.95×
zlib	39.38	67.38	1.71×

Hypervisor	Single	Multi	Scaling
clock	18,059	33,778	1.87×
clone	1,107	1,647	1.49×
context	1,513	2,976	1.97×
cpu-sched	57.56	134.87	2.34×
eventfd	36,069	156,805	4.35×
fault	9,485	15,162	1.60×
fork	3,808	7,209	1.89×
getrandom	34,558	67,904	1.96×
hrtimers	208,337	290,551	1.39×
mprotect	385,123	399,873	1.04×
mtx	13,498,362	76,053,829	5.63×
munmap	2,695	5,357	1.99×
null	162,564	318,711	1.96×
pipe	792,880	958,124	1.21×
priv-instr	349,485	679,334	1.94×
resched	244,228	185,440	0.76×
switch	112,586	400,524	3.56×
timermix	160,467	308,227	1.92×
tlb-shootdown	5,173	5,465	1.06×
tsc	640,801	1,261,691	1.97×
usersyscall	244,665	476,556	1.95×
vdso	65,829,032	129,485,687	1.97×
vfork	25,867	60,665	2.35×
x86syscall	1,826,053	3,603,340	1.97×
yield	1,187,069	1,235,473	1.04×
zero	1,378,505	2,716,601	1.97×

CPU float/SIMD	Single	Multi	Scaling
eigen	10,562	20,768	1.97×
expmath	2,070	4,065	1.96×
fma	485,867	955,384	1.97×
fp	121.11	277.13	2.29×
fractal	3.6	7	1.94×
hyperbolic	2,185	4,350	1.99×
logmath	3,471	6,852	1.97×
matrix	2,718	5,333	1.96×
matrix-3d	654.87	1,176	1.80×
monte-carlo	85.41	170.55	2.00×
mpfr	1,012	1,983	1.96×
powmath	1,208	2,379	1.97×
trig	1,414	2,777	1.96×
veccmp	14,869	29,273	1.97×
vecfp	1,093	2,145	1.96×
vecmath	2,349	4,617	1.96×
vecshuf	475.93	937.58	1.97×
vecwide	22,845	45,019	1.97×

Algorithms	Single	Multi	Scaling
bitonicsort	5.8	11.4	1.97×
bsearch	176.6	350.78	1.99×
bubblesort	0.6	1.2	2.00×
fibsearch	207.54	407.25	1.96×
heapsort	6.6	13.2	2.00×
hsearch	5,248	10,288	1.96×
insertionsort	7.4	14.8	2.00×
malloc	2,068,030	4,783,966	2.31×
mcontend	94.16	260.01	2.76×
mergesort	19.2	37.8	1.97×
qsort	14.8	29	1.96×
skiplist	3,890	7,679	1.97×
tree	1	2	2.00×

Memory	Single	Multi	Scaling
cache	294,505	322,323	1.09×
cachehammer	354,662	698,208	1.97×
cacheline	22.47	48.68	2.17×
l1cache	645.93	1,281	1.98×
memcpy	291.79	574.84	1.97×
memrate	1.56	3.12	2.00×
memthrash	78.65	97.8	1.24×
ptr-chase	34,666,637	45,808,686	1.32×
spinmem	307.79	152.54	0.50×
stream	38.58	146.13	3.79×
vm	60,103	209,641	3.49×

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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Specifications

Server Metadata

Availability

Processor

System Resources and Accelerators

CPU and System Topology

Server Description

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Geekbench Multi-Core

Passmark CPU Scores

Passmark Memory Scores

Stress-ng Stressors

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

Similar Servers

GS1 FAQs

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Specifications

Server Metadata

Availability

Processor

System Resources and Accelerators

CPU and System Topology

Server Description

Economics

Average Price per Region

Prices per Zone

Lowest Prices

Performance

Workload Profiles

Memory Bandwidth

Compression

OpenSSL

Geekbench Single-Core

Geekbench Multi-Core

Passmark CPU Scores

Passmark Memory Scores

Stress-ng Stressors

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

Similar Servers

GS1 FAQs

What is GS1?

What are the specs of the GS1 server?

How fast is the GS1 server?

How much does the GS1 server cost?

Who is the provider of the GS1 server?

Where is the GS1 server available?

What other servers offer similar performance to GS1?

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GS1 by Microsoft Azure