L2as_v4 by Microsoft Azure

L2as_v4 is a Lasv4 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 480 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0318 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
480 GB Storage
Spare SCore
3,077
(All-cores)
3,077
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_L2as_v4
Name
L2as_v4
API Reference
Standard_L2as_v4
Description
Lasv4 family [AMD processor] [Premium Storage capable] 2 vCPUs
Family
Lasv4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
188
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-27T07:07:06.407661

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0318 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0318 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0318 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0318 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0361 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0331 USD/h 0.179 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0334 USD/h 0.181 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0349 USD/h 0.189 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0349 USD/h 0.189 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0349 USD/h 0.189 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0351 USD/h 0.19 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0351 USD/h 0.19 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0358 USD/h 0.194 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.036 USD/h 0.195 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0368 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0368 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.037 USD/h 0.2 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0371 USD/h 0.201 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0371 USD/h 0.201 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0377 USD/h 0.204 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0379 USD/h 0.205 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0379 USD/h 0.205 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0379 USD/h 0.205 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0379 USD/h 0.205 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0381 USD/h 0.206 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0381 USD/h 0.206 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0381 USD/h 0.206 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0381 USD/h 0.206 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0381 USD/h 0.206 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0384 USD/h 0.208 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.0414 USD/h 0.224 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0416 USD/h 0.225 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0418 USD/h 0.226 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.042 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0445 USD/h 0.241 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0453 USD/h 0.245 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0506 USD/h 0.274 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
3.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
9V74
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, svm, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx512_bf16, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, arat, npt, nrip_save, tsc_scale, vmcb_clean, flushbyasid, decodeassists, pausefilter, pfthreshold, v_vmsave_vmload, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
1
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    480 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 480 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-dense virtual instance featuring dedicated AMD EPYC processing, fast local NVMe storage, and strong single-core performance for lightweight workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    The Microsoft Azure L2as_v4 is a memory-optimized, x86_64 virtual machine from the Lasv4 family, powered by a dedicated AMD EPYC 9V74 processor running at 3.7 GHz. It features 2 vCPUs (1 physical core, 2 threads), 16.0 GB of RAM, and a bundled 480 GB NVMe SSD with Premium Storage capability. Benchmark results indicate strong single-core performance, with stress-ng single-core and Geekbench single-core scores ranking in the top 25%. Conversely, multi-core performance and memory read bandwidth are weak, reflecting the single-core physical limitation. This instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-dense, low-concurrency workloads. It is best suited for single-threaded applications, lightweight memory-intensive tasks, and basic text processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.22Score
    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) 212,966 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.11 50.00% 50.00% -67.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,654,336 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.14 20.00% 20.00% -33.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,997 2,416 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 76,686 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.7 10.00% 10.00% -3.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,843 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,034

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,584

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 3,831
    Compression
    		 39,541
    Encryption
    		 2,393
    Extended Instructions
    		 2,613
    Floating Point Maths
    		 5,291
    Integer Maths
    		 9,432
    Physics
    		 490
    Prime Numbers
    		 24
    Single Threaded
    		 2,843
    String Sorting
    		 5,843

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,997
    Database Operations
    		 994
    Memory Latency
    		 80
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27,622
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 26,129
    Memory Write
    		 25,377

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 838.99 825.28 0.98×
    bitops
    		 159,602 192,075 1.20×
    branch
    		 211,948 377,336 1.78×
    funccall
    		 609.94 868.22 1.42×
    funcret
    		 21,176 31,086 1.47×
    hash
    		 161,724 243,372 1.50×
    intmath
    		 66,961 91,104 1.36×
    nop
    		 617,295 630,872 1.02×
    prime
    		 475,066 631,792 1.33×
    rotate
    		 86,657 87,512 1.01×
    str
    		 1,057,304 1,381,098 1.31×
    wcs
    		 673,899 812,149 1.21×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 3,678 3,991 1.09×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 903.84 1,259 1.39×
    zlib
    		 66.35 108.56 1.64×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 22,407 40,958 1.83×
    clone
    		 1,070 1,524 1.42×
    context
    		 3,042 5,372 1.77×
    cpu-sched
    		 73.08 144.76 1.98×
    eventfd
    		 41,017 134,110 3.27×
    fault
    		 10,293 15,049 1.46×
    fork
    		 5,034 8,201 1.63×
    getrandom
    		 51,627 68,808 1.33×
    hrtimers
    		 260,687 195,555 0.75×
    mprotect
    		 452,409 457,000 1.01×
    mtx
    		 20,255,896 149,636,636 7.39×
    munmap
    		 3,422 5,466 1.60×
    null
    		 347,756 606,016 1.74×
    pipe
    		 1,751,635 929,479 0.53×
    priv-instr
    		 445,763 749,443 1.68×
    resched
    		 203,246 144,767 0.71×
    switch
    		 145,490 300,781 2.07×
    timermix
    		 191,635 282,369 1.47×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 9,555 9,477 0.99×
    tsc
    		 784,342 1,517,388 1.93×
    usersyscall
    		 331,114 564,334 1.70×
    vdso
    		 93,933,930 151,354,888 1.61×
    vfork
    		 28,206 58,092 2.06×
    x86syscall
    		 4,142,985 7,181,724 1.73×
    yield
    		 1,053,981 1,056,399 1.00×
    zero
    		 2,763,808 4,623,209 1.67×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 16,222 17,450 1.08×
    expmath
    		 3,017 4,639 1.54×
    fma
    		 916,770 1,496,065 1.63×
    fp
    		 249.59 385.67 1.55×
    fractal
    		 7.4 12.6 1.70×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,778 5,626 1.49×
    logmath
    		 4,513 6,328 1.40×
    matrix
    		 4,887 5,744 1.18×
    matrix-3d
    		 159.34 334.26 2.10×
    monte-carlo
    		 182.02 300.78 1.65×
    mpfr
    		 1,675 2,169 1.30×
    powmath
    		 1,332 2,159 1.62×
    trig
    		 1,851 2,811 1.52×
    veccmp
    		 18,796 24,586 1.31×
    vecfp
    		 1,800 2,649 1.47×
    vecmath
    		 3,992 6,439 1.61×
    vecshuf
    		 630.84 779.48 1.24×
    vecwide
    		 28,352 37,921 1.34×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 10.4 11.8 1.13×
    bsearch
    		 305.66 398.04 1.30×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 1.6 2.00×
    fibsearch
    		 372.55 445.48 1.20×
    heapsort
    		 10.6 14.8 1.40×
    hsearch
    		 10,953 12,228 1.12×
    insertionsort
    		 12.8 13 1.02×
    malloc
    		 3,672,473 6,537,616 1.78×
    mcontend
    		 295.96 367.61 1.24×
    mergesort
    		 33.4 50.4 1.51×
    qsort
    		 21.8 30.8 1.41×
    skiplist
    		 7,026 11,218 1.60×
    tree
    		 2 3.2 1.60×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 895,527 895,404 1.00×
    cachehammer
    		 268,023 505,955 1.89×
    cacheline
    		 29.65 57.05 1.92×
    l1cache
    		 242.99 305.13 1.26×
    memcpy
    		 437.34 455.66 1.04×
    memrate
    		 3.55 3.93 1.11×
    memthrash
    		 76.3 105.38 1.38×
    ptr-chase
    		 57,617,211 85,459,737 1.48×
    spinmem
    		 248.9 1.8 0.01×
    stream
    		 124.95 332.57 2.66×
    vm
    		 195,482 212,730 1.09×

    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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