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Name	Standard_G2	Standard_GS2
Details	Standard is recommended tier G – Memory and storage optimised 2 – 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 2 – The number of vCPUs
vCPUs	4	4
CPU Architecture	x64	x64
Memory (GiB)	56	56
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	768 GiB	112 GiB
Max Disks	16	16
Support Premium Disk	no	yes
Combined IOPS is a sum of all attached disk's IOPs	12000	20000
Uncached Disk IOPS	10000	10000
Combined Write is a sum of all attached disk's write throughtput	94 MiB/Sec	191 MiB/Sec
Combined Read is a sum of all attached disk's read throughtput	188 MiB/Sec	191 MiB/Sec
Avg Price Diff	1.00x	1.00x

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Region	Standard_G2	Standard_GS2
Canada / Canada Central (canadacentral)	0.9680	0.9680
Canada / Canada East (canadaeast)	0.9680	0.9680
Europe / UK South (uksouth)	0.8780	0.8780
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undefined / hidden-10 (hidden-10)	1.3750	1.3750
undefined / hidden-11 (hidden-11)	1.4000	1.4000
undefined / hidden-2 (hidden-2)	1.1000	1.1000
undefined / hidden-3 (hidden-3)	1.1000	1.1000
undefined / hidden-4 (hidden-4)	1.1000	1.1000
undefined / hidden-5 (hidden-5)	1.1510	1.1510
undefined / hidden-6 (hidden-6)	1.2200	1.2200
undefined / hidden-7 (hidden-7)	1.2760	1.2760
undefined / hidden-8 (hidden-8)	1.3200	1.3200
undefined / hidden-9 (hidden-9)	1.3750	1.3750