ecs.e4.small by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.e4.small is a ecs.e4 family (1 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 1 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0118 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,086
(All-cores)
1,086
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.e4.small
Description
ecs.e4 family (1 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.e4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-08T11:29:13.038357

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Virginia (US) / us-east-1
- 0.065 USD/h
Silicon Valley (US) / us-west-1
0.0131 USD/h 0.073 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.0118 USD/h 0.079 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.0142 USD/h 0.079 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / cn-hongkong
- 0.079 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
1
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Shared
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8163
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
33 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
33 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, arat
Ecpus
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      0.5 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A budget-friendly shared-core virtual machine with a high memory-to-vCPU ratio, designed for lightweight tasks and development environments.

      Burstable & BudgetMemory Optimized

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.e4.small is an entry-level, KVM-based virtual machine featuring 1 shared vCPU from an Intel Xeon 8163 processor clocked at 2.5 GHz, paired with 8.0 GB of RAM. The instance lacks local storage and dedicated GPU resources, and operates with a baseline network bandwidth of 0 Gbps. Performance benchmarks place this instance in the lower percentiles, with a Geekbench single-core score of 871.0 and a stress-ng CPU score of 1086.18. Given its shared CPU architecture and high memory-to-core ratio, it offers a cost-effective solution for lightweight workloads. It is best suited for basic web serving, development environments, and low-throughput background tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.084Score
      Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
      Component Score Weight Impact
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 85,727 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.045 50.00% 50.00% -79.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 647,422 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.054 20.00% 20.00% -44.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 820 2,417 0.34 10.00% 10.00% -10.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 15,897 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.15 10.00% 10.00% -17.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,586 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 871

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 877

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1307
      Compression
      		 16066
      Encryption
      		 406
      Extended Instructions
      		 1203
      Floating Point Maths
      		 2393
      Integer Maths
      		 3160
      Physics
      		 166
      Prime Numbers
      		 9
      Single Threaded
      		 1586
      String Sorting
      		 2153

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 818
      Database Operations
      		 533
      Memory Latency
      		 82
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19111
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 6534
      Memory Write
      		 7107

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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