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DC2s_v3

The 'DC' series family are one of Azure's security focused general purpose VM instances.

The DC2s_v3 is a azure vm instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for vm workloads.

Last updated at Tue Apr 28 2026
Instance Info
Compute Value
vCPUs 2
Memory (GB) 16
CPU Architecture x64
Capacity Support False
VM Generations V2
VM Deployment Types IaaS
Network Value
Accelerated Networking True
Storage Value
Local Temp Storage (MB) 0
Cache/Temp Storage Throughput (IOPS) 19000
Cache/Temp Storage Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s) 19000000000
Uncached Disk Throughput (IOPS) 3200
Uncached Disk Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s) 50331648
Premium I/O True
Encryption True
Memory Maintenance True
Family Instances
Instance vCPUs Memory
DC1s_v3 1 8
DC2s_v3 2 16
DC4s_v3 4 32
DC8s_v3 8 64
DC16s_v3 16 128
DC24s_v3 24 192
DC32s_v3 32 256
DC48s_v3 48 384
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Instance vCPUs Memory
DC2ds_v3 2 16
E2ads_v5 2 16
A2m_v2 2 16
E2ads_v6 2 16
E2as_v4 2 16
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