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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
Average Time To Start
20
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-11T03:21:34.891876

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
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
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

    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

    0.205Score
    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) 231,009 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.121 50.00% 50.00% -65.20%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,712,209 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.147 20.00% 20.00% -31.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,621 2,416 0.671 10.00% 10.00% -3.91%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 57,816 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.536 10.00% 10.00% -6.05%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,500 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.634 10.00% 10.00% -4.45%

    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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