E2_v5
The 'E' family of VM size series are one of Azure's memory-optimized VM instances.
The E2_v5 is a azure vm instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for vm workloads.
Last updated at Sun May 24 2026
Instance Info
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 2 |
| Memory (GB) | 16 |
| CPU Architecture | x64 |
| Capacity Support | True |
| VM Generations | V1,V2 |
| VM Deployment Types | IaaS |
| Network | Value |
| Accelerated Networking | True |
| Storage | Value |
| Local Temp Storage (MB) | 0 |
| Cache/Temp Storage Throughput (IOPS) | 9000 |
| Cache/Temp Storage Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s) | 125000000 |
| Uncached Disk Throughput (IOPS) | 3750 |
| Uncached Disk Read/Write Throughput (Bytes/s) | 85000000 |
| Premium I/O | False |
| Encryption | True |
| Memory Maintenance | True |
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