VMARMFlex
VM.Standard.A2.Flex
VM Standard A2 Flex · 3.0 GHz Ampere® AmpereOne™ (Siryn™)
Value Score — PassMark/vCPU ÷ $/vCPU/hr
21,370Overall rank
#23/ 29Value score is constant for flex shapes — the ratio of PassMark per vCPU to price per vCPU stays the same at any configuration size.
Specifications
vCPUs2–156flex range
RAM1–946 GB
Network1 Gbps
Local storageNone
Pricing
$/vCPU/hr$0.0070
$/OCPU/hr$0.0140OCI native billing unit
$/GB RAM/hr$0.00200
Price per vCPU/hr is constant regardless of vCPU count for flex shapes.
Performance
PassMark/vCPU150multi-thread, per core
Single-thread1,228latency-sensitive score
CPU chip mark57,444Ampere ARM - 192 Core 3200 MHz
Peak PassMark23,336at 156 vCPUs
Ampere ARM - 192 Core 3200 MHz is ranked #193 on PassMark's CPU benchmark chart. View on PassMark ↗
⚠PassMark underrepresents AmpereOne — Oracle reports A2 delivers ~28% better performance than A1 on average for cloud-native workloads (up to 59% for MySQL, 27% for PostgreSQL, 18% for Nginx). Source ↗
Top 5 by Value Score
| # | Shape | $/vCPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.0100 | |
| 2 | $0.0100 | |
| 3 | $0.0125 | |
| 4 | $0.0125 | |
| 5 | $0.0125 |