Standard_DC2es_v6

Standard_DC2es_v6 is an Azure VM size with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8573C (Emerald Rapids)). In East US it costs $0.111 per hour on demand ($81.03 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.0887 per hour, 20% less. Spot capacity is about $0.0205 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	$0.111	$0.0205	$0.0887	$0.0665	$0.0944	$0.0722
West US 3 westus3	$0.111	$0.0205	$0.0887	$0.0665	$0.0944	$0.0722
West US westus	$0.129	$0.0238	$0.1035	$0.0776	$0.1097	$0.0838
West Europe westeurope	$0.133	$0.0246	$0.1063	$0.0797	$0.1131	$0.0865

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	$0.111	$0.0887	$0.0665
Windows	$0.203	$0.1807	$0.1585

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
Max data disks	8
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	3,750
Max disk throughput (uncached)	106 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	No

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_DC2es_v6
Family	DCesv6
Category	General purpose
VM generations	V2
Encryption at host	Yes
Confidential computing	TDX

Other	Value
Series	dcesv6-series
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

Compare Standard_DC2es_v6

Other generations

vs Standard_DC2es_v5

Other DCesv6 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
Standard_DC2es_v6	2	8	$0.111
Standard_DC4es_v6	4	16	$0.222
Standard_DC8es_v6	8	32	$0.444
Standard_DC16es_v6	16	64	$0.887
Standard_DC32es_v6	32	128	$1.774
Standard_DC48es_v6	48	192	$2.661
Standard_DC64es_v6	64	256	$3.548
Standard_DC96es_v6	96	384	$5.322
Standard_DC128es_v6	128	512	$7.096

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