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D2a_v4

The 'D' family of VM sizes are one of Azure's general purpose VM sizes.

The D2a_v4 is a azure vm instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for vm workloads.

Last updated at Wed May 27 2026

Instance Info

Compute	Value
vCPUs	2
Memory (GB)	8
CPU Architecture	x64
Capacity Support	True
VM Generations	V1,V2
VM Deployment Types	PaaS,IaaS
Network	Value
Accelerated Networking	True
Storage	Value
Local Temp Storage (MB)	51200
Cache/Temp Storage Throughput (IOPS)	3000
Cache/Temp Storage Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s)	50331648
Uncached Disk Throughput (IOPS)	3200
Uncached Disk Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s)	48000000
Premium I/O	False
Encryption	True
Memory Maintenance	True

Family Instances

Instance	vCPUs	Memory
D2a_v4	2	8
D4a_v4	4	16
D8a_v4	8	32
D16a_v4	16	64
D32a_v4	32	128
D48a_v4	48	192
D64a_v4	64	256
D96a_v4	96	384

Related Instances

Instance	vCPUs	Memory
B2as_v2	2	8
B2s_v2	2	8
B2ms	2	8
D2ads_v5	2	8
B2ps_v2	2	8

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