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Name	Standard_DC2es_v6	Standard_GS2
Details	Standard is recommended tier D – General purpose compute C – Confidential 2 – VM Size s – Premium Storage capable e – Encrypted; contains confidential TDX capabilities v6 – 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)	8	56
Hyper-V Generations	V2	V1,V2
ACUs	0	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	0 GiB	112 GiB
Max Disks	8	16
Support Premium Disk	yes	yes
Combined IOPS is a sum of all attached disk's IOPs	9000	20000
Uncached Disk IOPS	3750	10000
Combined Write is a sum of all attached disk's write throughtput	119 MiB/Sec	191 MiB/Sec
Combined Read is a sum of all attached disk's read throughtput	119 MiB/Sec	191 MiB/Sec
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	10.19x

Regional Prices

Region	Standard_DC2es_v6	Standard_GS2
Canada / Canada Central (canadacentral)	n/a	0.9680
Canada / Canada East (canadaeast)	n/a	0.9680
Europe / UK South (uksouth)	n/a	0.8780
Europe / West Europe (westeurope)	0.1210	n/a
US / East US (eastus)	0.1010	n/a
US / West US (westus)	0.1180	n/a
US / West US 2 (westus2)	n/a	0.9810
US / West US 3 (westus3)	0.1010	n/a