L2s_v4 by Microsoft Azure
(All-cores)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | azure |
Server ID | Standard_L2s_v4 |
Name | L2s_v4 |
API Reference | Standard_L2s_v4 |
Description | Lsv4 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs |
Family | Lsv4 |
Hw Virt | |
Average Time To Start | 26 |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-10-22T21:29:36.864748 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
East US (US) / eastus | 0.0365 USD/h | 0.174 USD/h |
East US 2 (US) / eastus2 | 0.0323 USD/h | 0.175 USD/h |
West US 2 (US) / westus2 | 0.0323 USD/h | 0.175 USD/h |
West US 3 (US) / westus3 | 0.0323 USD/h | 0.175 USD/h |
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral | 0.0336 USD/h | 0.182 USD/h |
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral | 0.0349 USD/h | 0.189 USD/h |
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral | 0.0353 USD/h | 0.191 USD/h |
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral | 0.0355 USD/h | 0.192 USD/h |
North Europe (IE) / northeurope | 0.0355 USD/h | 0.192 USD/h |
West US (US) / westus | 0.0355 USD/h | 0.192 USD/h |
Central US (US) / centralus | 0.0364 USD/h | 0.197 USD/h |
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral | 0.0364 USD/h | 0.197 USD/h |
Central India (IN) / centralindia | 0.0366 USD/h | 0.198 USD/h |
France Central (FR) / francecentral | 0.0373 USD/h | 0.202 USD/h |
UK South (GB) / uksouth | 0.0373 USD/h | 0.202 USD/h |
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral | 0.0377 USD/h | 0.204 USD/h |
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest | 0.0377 USD/h | 0.204 USD/h |
Japan East (JP) / japaneast | 0.0379 USD/h | 0.205 USD/h |
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral | 0.0379 USD/h | 0.205 USD/h |
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast | 0.0383 USD/h | 0.207 USD/h |
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral | 0.0384 USD/h | 0.208 USD/h |
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast | 0.0384 USD/h | 0.208 USD/h |
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral | 0.0384 USD/h | 0.208 USD/h |
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral | 0.0384 USD/h | 0.208 USD/h |
Italy North (IT) / italynorth | 0.0384 USD/h | 0.208 USD/h |
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral | 0.0384 USD/h | 0.208 USD/h |
West Europe (NL) / westeurope | 0.0384 USD/h | 0.208 USD/h |
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast | 0.0386 USD/h | 0.209 USD/h |
North Central US (US) / northcentralus | 0.0386 USD/h | 0.209 USD/h |
South Central US (US) / southcentralus | 0.0386 USD/h | 0.209 USD/h |
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia | 0.0386 USD/h | 0.209 USD/h |
West Central US (US) / westcentralus | 0.0388 USD/h | 0.21 USD/h |
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral | 0.039 USD/h | 0.211 USD/h |
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth | 0.039 USD/h | 0.211 USD/h |
UK West (GB) / ukwest | 0.039 USD/h | 0.211 USD/h |
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth | 0.0405 USD/h | 0.219 USD/h |
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast | 0.042 USD/h | 0.227 USD/h |
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast | 0.0423 USD/h | 0.229 USD/h |
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth | 0.0423 USD/h | 0.229 USD/h |
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral | 0.0451 USD/h | 0.244 USD/h |
South India (IN) / southindia | 0.0455 USD/h | 0.246 USD/h |
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth | 0.0462 USD/h | 0.25 USD/h |
East Asia (HK) / eastasia | 0.0499 USD/h | 0.27 USD/h |
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth | 0.0514 USD/h | 0.278 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 2 |
Hypervisor | Microsoft Hyper-V |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 1 |
CPU Speed | 4.2 GHz |
CPU Architecture | x86_64 |
CPU Manufacturer | Intel |
CPU Family | Xeon |
CPU Model | 8573C |
CPU L1D Cache | 48 KiB |
CPU L1D Cache Total | 48 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 32 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 2 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 2 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache | 260 MiB |
CPU L3 Cache Total | 260 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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities |
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 |
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| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
CPU and System Topology
Server Description
A storage-focused virtual machine combining high-frequency single-core Intel performance with fast local NVMe SSD storage and balanced memory capacity.
Microsoft Azure L2s_v4 is a storage and memory-optimized virtual machine powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8573C processor running at 4.2 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture, it provides 2 vCPUs from a single physical core, paired with 16.0 GB of RAM and a bundled 480 GB NVMe SSD. While single-core benchmarks are strong, evidenced by a Geekbench single-core score of 2138.0 and high single-threaded gzip compression throughput, multi-core performance and memory bandwidth are constrained by the single-core topology. This server is qualitatively cost-efficient for workloads requiring fast local storage and high single-thread performance rather than massive parallel processing. It is best suited for lightweight database operations, text processing, and low-concurrency web serving.
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 3,724 |
Compression | 35,565 |
Encryption | 2,067 |
Extended Instructions | 2,718 |
Floating Point Maths | 6,764 |
Integer Maths | 9,524 |
Physics | 460 |
Prime Numbers | 19 |
Single Threaded | 2,891 |
String Sorting | 4,807 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 1,847 |
Database Operations | 1,600 |
Memory Latency | 60 |
Memory Read Cached | 25,787 |
Memory Read Uncached | 10,325 |
Memory Write | 9,457 |
Stress-ng Stressors
| CPU integer | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
atomic | 741.91 | 742.15 | 1.00× |
bitops | 148,929 | 179,883 | 1.21× |
branch | 139,948 | 216,291 | 1.55× |
funccall | 753.11 | 999.86 | 1.33× |
funcret | 12,433 | 20,005 | 1.61× |
hash | 177,098 | 257,208 | 1.45× |
intmath | 65,630 | 80,967 | 1.23× |
nop | 260,604 | 211,564 | 0.81× |
prime | 471,233 | 576,673 | 1.22× |
rotate | 99,451 | 107,505 | 1.08× |
str | 896,087 | 1,407,234 | 1.57× |
wcs | 686,386 | 867,478 | 1.26× |
| Cryptography | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
crypt | 3,362 | 3,901 | 1.16× |
| Compression | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
jpeg | 835.27 | 1,135 | 1.36× |
zlib | 52.89 | 90.68 | 1.71× |
| Hypervisor | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
clock | 42,370 | 70,674 | 1.67× |
clone | 1,322 | 1,824 | 1.38× |
context | 5,302 | 8,710 | 1.64× |
cpu-sched | 56.43 | 116.23 | 2.06× |
eventfd | 59,135 | 238,294 | 4.03× |
fault | 26,313 | 30,122 | 1.14× |
fork | 7,037 | 10,965 | 1.56× |
getrandom | 58,649 | 87,398 | 1.49× |
hrtimers | 313,374 | 274,389 | 0.88× |
mprotect | 764,827 | 770,542 | 1.01× |
mtx | 16,160,855 | 37,773,177 | 2.34× |
munmap | 5,083 | 8,085 | 1.59× |
null | 863,019 | 1,367,772 | 1.58× |
pipe | 3,319,419 | 1,695,613 | 0.51× |
priv-instr | 845,865 | 1,219,880 | 1.44× |
resched | 406,818 | 285,767 | 0.70× |
switch | 211,479 | 516,418 | 2.44× |
timermix | 243,926 | 398,448 | 1.63× |
tlb-shootdown | 6,437 | 5,176 | 0.80× |
tsc | 909,488 | 1,390,078 | 1.53× |
usersyscall | 716,542 | 1,048,319 | 1.46× |
vdso | 106,209,441 | 156,403,910 | 1.47× |
vfork | 43,793 | 84,445 | 1.93× |
x86syscall | 10,196,593 | 17,617,136 | 1.73× |
yield | 2,525,687 | 1,709,726 | 0.68× |
zero | 5,805,740 | 9,633,640 | 1.66× |
| CPU float/SIMD | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
eigen | 16,080 | 21,174 | 1.32× |
expmath | 3,511 | 5,117 | 1.46× |
fma | 1,308,691 | 1,705,213 | 1.30× |
fp | 208.73 | 308.49 | 1.48× |
fractal | 6.6 | 9.4 | 1.42× |
hyperbolic | 4,046 | 5,837 | 1.44× |
logmath | 5,197 | 8,224 | 1.58× |
matrix | 4,974 | 5,831 | 1.17× |
matrix-3d | 695.16 | 822.4 | 1.18× |
monte-carlo | 301.11 | 494.21 | 1.64× |
mpfr | 1,739 | 2,051 | 1.18× |
powmath | 1,957 | 2,967 | 1.52× |
trig | 2,649 | 3,523 | 1.33× |
veccmp | 24,805 | 28,865 | 1.16× |
vecfp | 1,555 | 1,981 | 1.27× |
vecmath | 3,913 | 5,484 | 1.40× |
vecshuf | 820.84 | 945.17 | 1.15× |
vecwide | 36,905 | 45,493 | 1.23× |
| Algorithms | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
bitonicsort | 8.8 | 10.8 | 1.23× |
bsearch | 287.85 | 351.69 | 1.22× |
bubblesort | 1 | 1.2 | 1.20× |
fibsearch | 325.94 | 413.2 | 1.27× |
heapsort | 10 | 13.6 | 1.36× |
hsearch | 8,072 | 10,021 | 1.24× |
insertionsort | 12.6 | 11.2 | 0.89× |
malloc | 2,724,885 | 5,042,434 | 1.85× |
mcontend | 376.23 | 471.43 | 1.25× |
mergesort | 30.4 | 44 | 1.45× |
qsort | 22 | 30.8 | 1.40× |
skiplist | 5,453 | 8,635 | 1.58× |
tree | 1.8 | 2.4 | 1.33× |
| Memory | Single | Multi | Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|
cache | 303,633 | 322,625 | 1.06× |
cachehammer | 219,598 | 370,437 | 1.69× |
cacheline | 33.01 | 65.96 | 2.00× |
l1cache | 1,087 | 423.6 | 0.39× |
memcpy | 440.06 | 441.18 | 1.00× |
memrate | 0.13 | 0.25 | 1.92× |
memthrash | 71.86 | 97.32 | 1.35× |
ptr-chase | 33,758,168 | 62,756,303 | 1.86× |
spinmem | 296.79 | 2 | 0.01× |
stream | 6.44 | 15.9 | 2.47× |
vm | 193,683 | 216,097 | 1.12× |
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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| L16s_v4 | 16 | 128 GiB | 0 |
| L32s_v4 | 32 | 256 GiB | 0 |
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| L64s_v4 | 64 | 512 GiB | 0 |
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