Compare Azure Virtual Machines

Name	Standard_A2m_v2	Standard_GS2
Details	Standard is recommended tier A – Entry-level VMs for dev/test 2 – The number of vCPUs m – The most amount of memory in a particular size v2 – version	Standard is recommended tier G – Memory and storage optimised S – Can use Premium Storage and offers a local SSD disk cache 2 – The number of vCPUs
vCPUs	2	4
CPU Architecture	x64	x64
Memory (GiB)	16	56
Hyper-V Generations	V1	V1,V2
ACUs	100	180
GPUs	0	0
Max Network Interfaces	2	2
RDMA Enabled	no	no
Accelerated Net	no	no
OS Disk Size	1023 GiB	1023 GiB
Res Disk Size	20 GiB	112 GiB
Max Disks	4	16
Support Premium Disk	no	yes
Combined IOPS is a sum of all attached disk's IOPs	2000	20000
Uncached Disk IOPS	3200	10000
Combined Write is a sum of all attached disk's write throughtput	20 MiB/Sec	191 MiB/Sec
Combined Read is a sum of all attached disk's read throughtput	40 MiB/Sec	191 MiB/Sec
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	8.56x

Regional Prices

Region	Standard_A2m_v2	Standard_GS2
Canada / Canada Central (canadacentral)	n/a	0.9680
Canada / Canada East (canadaeast)	n/a	0.9680
Europe / Austria East (austriaeast)	0.1130	n/a
Europe / UK South (uksouth)	n/a	0.8780
US / West Central US (westcentralus)	0.1100	n/a
US / West US 2 (westus2)	0.0990	0.9810
US / West US 3 (westus3)	0.0990	n/a