ecs.g8a.4xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.g8a.4xlarge is a ecs.g8a family (16 vCPUs, 64 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1201 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
24,604
(All-cores)
3,074
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.g8a.4xlarge
Description
ecs.g8a family (16 vCPUs, 64 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.g8a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
14.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-09T15:15:42.128433

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
0.1201 USD/h 0.6321 USD/h
Shanghai (CN) / cn-shanghai
- 0.6321 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
2.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
9T24
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, amd_lbr_v2, nopl, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, extapic, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, ibs, topoext, perfctr_core, perfctr_llc, mwaitx, ssbd, perfmon_v2, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, vmmcall, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx512_bf16, clzero, irperf, xsaveerptr, rdpru, wbnoinvd, arat, avx512vbmi, umip, pku, ospke, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
8
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 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
      7 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A balanced general-purpose instance featuring dedicated AMD EPYC processing cores and strong single-core performance for standard enterprise workloads.

      General Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.g8a.4xlarge is a general-purpose instance featuring 16 dedicated vCPUs and 16 physical cores powered by an AMD EPYC 9T24 processor running at 2.7 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture and KVM hypervisor, it is configured with 64.0 GB of system memory, yielding a balanced 4.0 GB per core. The instance does not include local storage or GPU hardware, and it delivers a baseline network bandwidth of 7 Gbps. Benchmark data shows strong single-core CPU and text processing performance, while multi-core operations, cryptography, and database tasks perform in the average tier. A key tradeoff is its weak uncached large-block memory read bandwidth. This instance is suited for general-purpose workloads, including web serving, software compilation, and standard database operations that require dedicated compute resources without local storage dependencies.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.821Score
      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) 1,471,344 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.767 50.00% 50.00% -12.40%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 11,411,552 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.977 20.00% 20.00% -0.46%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,723 2,418 1.13 10.00% 10.00% +1.23%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 43,292 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.4 10.00% 10.00% -8.76%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,890 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.22 10.00% 10.00% +2.01%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,006

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 11,760

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 26440
      Compression
      		 313370
      Encryption
      		 19268
      Extended Instructions
      		 21890
      Floating Point Maths
      		 42507
      Integer Maths
      		 75986
      Physics
      		 2453
      Prime Numbers
      		 126
      Single Threaded
      		 2890
      String Sorting
      		 45666

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2723
      Database Operations
      		 7885
      Memory Latency
      		 70
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27398
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 26131
      Memory Write
      		 25904

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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