Standard_DC2eds_v6

Standard_DC2eds_v6 is an Azure VM size with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)). In East US it costs $0.137 per hour on demand ($100.01 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.1096 per hour, 20% less. Spot capacity is about $0.0253 per hour. It is sold in 4 regions.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr reserved	3-yr reserved	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
East US eastus	$0.137	$0.0253	$0.1096	$0.0822	$0.1165	$0.0891
West US 3 westus3	$0.137	$0.0253	$0.1096	$0.0822	$0.1165	$0.0891
West US westus	$0.16	$0.0296	$0.128	$0.0959	$0.136	$0.104
West Europe westeurope	$0.164	$0.0303	$0.1313	$0.0985	$0.1394	$0.1066

Reserved and Savings Plans Spot prices by region Windows prices by region AWS equivalents

Prices by operating system in East US

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$0.137	$0.1096	$0.0822
Windows	$0.229	$0.2016	$0.1742

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	2
Physical cores	1
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	8

Networking	Value
Network	7 Gbps
Accelerated networking	Yes
Max network interfaces	2

Storage	Value
Storage	110 GiB temp NVMe SSD
Local NVMe	110 GiB
Max data disks	8
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	3,750
Max disk throughput (uncached)	106 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	Yes

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_DC2eds_v6
Family	DCedsv6
Category	General purpose
VM generations	V2
Encryption at host	Yes
Confidential computing	TDX

Other	Value
Series	dcedsv6-series
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

Compare Standard_DC2eds_v6

Other generations

vs Standard_DC2eds_v5

Other DCedsv6 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
Standard_DC2eds_v6	2	8	$0.137
Standard_DC4eds_v6	4	16	$0.274
Standard_DC8eds_v6	8	32	$0.548
Standard_DC16eds_v6	16	64	$1.096
Standard_DC32eds_v6	32	128	$2.193
Standard_DC48eds_v6	48	192	$3.289
Standard_DC64eds_v6	64	256	$4.385
Standard_DC96eds_v6	96	384	$6.578
Standard_DC128eds_v6	128	512	$8.77

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes.