Standard_G2

Standard_G2 is an Azure VM size with 4 vCPUs, 56 GiB memory. In East US it costs $1.10 per hour on demand ($803.00 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.2033 per hour. It is sold in 14 regions; the cheapest is UK South at $0.878 per hour.

Prices by region

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

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
UK South uksouth	$0.878	$0.1623	$0.6673	$0.4829
Canada Central canadacentral	$0.968	$0.2668	$0.7357	$0.5324
Canada East canadaeast	$0.968	$0.1789	$0.7357	$0.5324
West US 2 westus2	$0.981	$0.1813	$0.6769	$0.4611
East US eastus	$1.10	$0.2033	–	–
East US 2 eastus2	$1.10	$0.378	$0.759	$0.517
US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia	$1.10	$0.2033	–	–
Japan East japaneast	$1.151	$0.2127	$0.8748	$0.6331
West US westus	$1.22	$0.2255	$0.8418	$0.5734
Australia East australiaeast	$1.276	$0.2359	$0.9698	$0.7018
Southeast Asia southeastasia	$1.32	$0.2439	$1.003	$0.726
US Gov Arizona usgovarizona	$1.375	$0.2541	–	–
US Gov Texas usgovtexas	$1.375	$0.2541	–	–
West Europe westeurope	$1.40	$0.2587	$1.064	$0.77

Spot prices by region Windows prices by region

Prices by operating system in East US

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$1.10	–	–
Windows	$1.22	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	4
Physical cores	4
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
ACU (compute units)	180

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	56

Networking	Value
Accelerated networking	No
Max network interfaces	2

Storage	Value
Temp disk	768 GiB
Max data disks	16
Premium SSD	No
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	10,000
Max disk throughput (uncached)	250 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	No

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_G2
Family	G
VM generations	V1
Encryption at host	No
Retirement date	2028-11-15

Other	Value
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

Other G sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
Standard_G1	2	28	$0.55
Standard_G2	4	56	$1.10

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