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Region pricing

Monthly estimates use 730 hours.

Compare this VM 54 priced regions
Operating system
Pricing model

Cheapest published price

East US 2, West US 2, West US 3

eastus2, westus2, westus3

$0.2990

per hour, Linux Pay as you go

$218.27 estimated monthly

Linux Pay as you go hourly prices for Standard_DS12-2_v2 by Azure region, including each region's percentage above the cheapest price. Use a column heading button to change the sort order.
#Est. monthlyVs. cheapest
1
East US 2 Cheapest
eastus2
eastus2 $0.2990 $218.27 0%
2
West US 2 Cheapest
westus2
westus2 $0.2990 $218.27 0%
3
West US 3 Cheapest
westus3
westus3 $0.2990 $218.27 0%
4 indonesiacentral indonesiacentral $0.3160 $230.68 +5.69%
5 mexicocentral mexicocentral $0.3190 $232.87 +6.69%
6 germanywestcentral germanywestcentral $0.3320 $242.36 +11.04%
7 southcentralus southcentralus $0.3320 $242.36 +11.04%
8 westcentralus westcentralus $0.3320 $242.36 +11.04%
9 italynorth italynorth $0.3450 $251.85 +15.38%
10 polandcentral polandcentral $0.3450 $251.85 +15.38%
11 spaincentral spaincentral $0.3450 $251.85 +15.38%
12 swedencentral swedencentral $0.3450 $251.85 +15.38%
13 israelcentral israelcentral $0.3590 $262.07 +20.07%
14 koreasouth koreasouth $0.3590 $262.07 +20.07%
15 qatarcentral qatarcentral $0.3590 $262.07 +20.07%
16 uaenorth uaenorth $0.3590 $262.07 +20.07%
17 canadacentral canadacentral $0.3660 $267.18 +22.41%
18 canadaeast canadaeast $0.3660 $267.18 +22.41%
19 northcentralus northcentralus $0.3700 $270.10 +23.75%
20 westus westus $0.3700 $270.10 +23.75%
21 centralus centralus $0.3710 $270.83 +24.08%
22 eastus eastus $0.3710 $270.83 +24.08%
23 malaysiawest malaysiawest $0.3710 $270.83 +24.08%
24 northeurope northeurope $0.3710 $270.83 +24.08%
25 centralindia centralindia $0.3790 $276.67 +26.76%
26 jioindiacentral jioindiacentral $0.3790 $276.67 +26.76%
27 jioindiawest jioindiawest $0.3790 $276.67 +26.76%
28 southindia southindia $0.3790 $276.67 +26.76%
29 westeurope westeurope $0.3790 $276.67 +26.76%
30 westindia westindia $0.3790 $276.67 +26.76%
31 southeastasia southeastasia $0.3820 $278.86 +27.76%
32 australiacentral australiacentral $0.3990 $291.27 +33.44%
33 australiacentral2 australiacentral2 $0.3990 $291.27 +33.44%
34 australiaeast australiaeast $0.3990 $291.27 +33.44%
35 australiasoutheast australiasoutheast $0.3990 $291.27 +33.44%
36 japanwest japanwest $0.3990 $291.27 +33.44%
37 koreacentral koreacentral $0.3990 $291.27 +33.44%
38 southafricanorth southafricanorth $0.4010 $292.73 +34.11%
39 switzerlandnorth switzerlandnorth $0.4169 $304.34 +39.43%
40 norwayeast norwayeast $0.4170 $304.41 +39.46%
41 germanynorth germanynorth $0.4320 $315.36 +44.48%
42 eastasia eastasia $0.4590 $335.07 +53.51%
43 japaneast japaneast $0.4590 $335.07 +53.51%
44 uaecentral uaecentral $0.4660 $340.18 +55.85%
45 francecentral francecentral $0.4690 $342.37 +56.86%
46 uksouth uksouth $0.4690 $342.37 +56.86%
47 ukwest ukwest $0.4690 $342.37 +56.86%
48 brazilsouth brazilsouth $0.4700 $343.10 +57.19%
49 newzealandnorth newzealandnorth $0.4960 $362.08 +65.89%
50 southafricawest southafricawest $0.5020 $366.46 +67.89%
51 norwaywest norwaywest $0.5420 $395.66 +81.27%
52 switzerlandwest switzerlandwest $0.54215 $395.77 +81.32%
53 francesouth francesouth $0.6080 $443.84 +103.34%
54 brazilsoutheast brazilsoutheast $0.6110 $446.03 +104.35%

Vs. cheapest shows how each region compares with the lowest available public price. Prices are shown in USD and may vary by availability, capacity, and agreement.

SKU identity and primary specs

Canonical Resource SKUs fields and the most commonly compared capabilities.

How to read this VM size name

Each segment of Standard_DS12-2_v2 encodes a specific attribute. The Standard_ prefix is omitted from the breakdown below.

D
Family — D-family size series
S
Additive feature — Compatible with any Premium SSD type
12
Size number — Relative position within the series; this size has 4 vCPUs
-2
Constrained vCPUs — Only 2 vCPUs are active, which lowers per-core licensing costs
_v2
Version — Generation 2 of this series
Microsoft naming guide
ARM SKU name
Standard_DS12-2_v2
Size
DS12-2_v2
Maximum data disks
16
Maximum network interfaces
4
Accelerator
None

Feature flags

Accelerated networkingPremium storage

Other sizes in this series

DSv2 Series sizes, smallest first.

Static capabilities

Only allowlisted values that were present and identical across every regional record for this SKU are included.

Accelerated networking
True
Available vCPUs
2
Azure compute units
210
Cached disk bytes
154618822656
CPU architecture
x64
Hyper-V generations
V1,V2
Maximum data disks
16
Maximum network interfaces
4
Memory (GB)
28
OS VHD size MB
1047552
Premium storage
True
RDMA
False
Resource volume MB
57344
Temp and cached disk IOPS
16000
Temp and cached read bytes/sec
131072000
Temp and cached write bytes/sec
131072000
Uncached disk bytes/sec
192000000
Uncached disk IOPS
12800
vCPUs
4
vCPUs per core
1