Compare Azure Virtual Machines

Name	Standard_G1	Standard_GS1
Details	Standard is recommended tier G – Memory and storage optimised 1 – The number of vCPUs	Standard is recommended tier G – Memory and storage optimised S – Can use Premium Storage and offers a local SSD disk cache 1 – The number of vCPUs
vCPUs	2	2
CPU Architecture	x64	x64
Memory (GiB)	28	28
Hyper-V Generations	V1	V1,V2
ACUs	180	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	384 GiB	56 GiB
Max Disks	8	8
Support Premium Disk	no	yes
Combined IOPS is a sum of all attached disk's IOPs	6000	10000
Uncached Disk IOPS	5000	5000
Combined Write is a sum of all attached disk's write throughtput	47 MiB/Sec	95 MiB/Sec
Combined Read is a sum of all attached disk's read throughtput	94 MiB/Sec	95 MiB/Sec
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.00x

Regional Prices

Region	Standard_G1	Standard_GS1
Canada / Canada Central (canadacentral)	0.4840	0.4840
Canada / Canada East (canadaeast)	0.4840	0.4840
Europe / UK South (uksouth)	0.4390	0.4390
US / West US 2 (westus2)	0.4900	0.4900