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GS2 by Microsoft Azure

GS2 is a GS family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 56 GiB of memory and 115 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1623 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
56 GiB Memory
115 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2579
(All-cores)
682
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_GS2
Name
GS2
API Reference
Standard_GS2
Description
GS family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
GS
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-19T06:39:02.281189

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1623 USD/h 0.878 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1789 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.3705 USD/h 0.968 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1813 USD/h 0.981 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.2033 USD/h 1.1 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.378 USD/h 1.1 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.2127 USD/h 1.151 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.2255 USD/h 1.22 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.2359 USD/h 1.276 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.2439 USD/h 1.32 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.2587 USD/h 1.4 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
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
3.8
Scalability
95

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
56 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
56 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    115 GB
    Storages
    • 115 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-core ratio and local storage for memory-bound workloads with moderate compute requirements.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure GS2 is an x86_64 virtual machine running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, featuring a dedicated Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor with 4 physical cores and 4 vCPUs clocked at 2.0 GHz. The server is configured with 56.0 GB of RAM, providing a high memory-to-core ratio of 14.0 GB per core, alongside 115 GB of local storage. Performance benchmarks indicate weak single-core and multi-core CPU capabilities, with stress-ng and Geekbench scores falling in the bottom 10% to 25%. However, memory performance remains moderate, as evidenced by average-tier Passmark memory scores and small-model LLM inference speeds. Due to its high memory density and limited compute performance, the GS2 is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-intensive applications that do not require heavy CPU processing, making it suitable for caching layers, lightweight database hosting, and memory-bound utility workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.299Score
    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) 405,061 ops/sec 1,895,838 ops/sec 0.214 50.00% 50.00% -53.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,030,712 ops/sec 11,497,234 ops/sec 0.264 20.00% 20.00% -23.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,857 2,410 0.77 10.00% 10.00% -2.58%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 35,414 MB/sec 107,331 MB/sec 0.33 10.00% 10.00% -10.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,704 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.721 10.00% 10.00% -3.22%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,083

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,237

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		4456
    Compression
    		61458
    Encryption
    		1136
    Extended Instructions
    		3849
    Floating Point Maths
    		9279
    Integer Maths
    		12455
    Physics
    		641
    Prime Numbers
    		46
    Single Threaded
    		1704
    String Sorting
    		8354

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		1857
    Database Operations
    		2222
    Memory Latency
    		70
    Memory Read Cached
    		19122
    Memory Read Uncached
    		8926
    Memory Write
    		7243

    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
    GS1 228 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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