ecs.n4.4xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.n4.4xlarge is a ecs.n4 family (16 vCPUs, 32 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0759 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
16,519
(All-cores)
1,073
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.n4.4xlarge
Description
ecs.n4 family (16 vCPUs, 32 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.n4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-30T18:54:23.324844

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Virginia (US) / us-east-1
0.0941 USD/h 0.672 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / cn-hongkong
- 0.676 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.0759 USD/h 0.69 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
- 0.785 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Shared
CPU Cores
8
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
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
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
15.4
Scalability
96.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      2.5 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A shared-CPU virtual server offering balanced multi-core performance and moderate memory capacity for non-intensive multi-threaded workloads.

      Compute OptimizedBurstable & Budget

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.n4.4xlarge is an x86_64 server instance utilizing a shared Intel Xeon 8163 processor with 16 vCPUs, 8 physical cores, and 32.0 GB of system memory. Operating on the KVM hypervisor, this instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators, and features a baseline network bandwidth of 2 Gbps. Benchmark data reveals weak single-core performance, with single-threaded compression and Geekbench scores in the bottom decile. Conversely, multi-core performance, static web serving, and database operations achieve average tier results. This resource profile makes the instance a qualitatively cost-effective option for multi-threaded workloads, software compilation, and static web hosting where shared CPU allocation is acceptable, while remaining less suitable for memory-heavy or single-thread-bound applications.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.73Score
      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) 1,339,738 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.68 50.00% 50.00% -18.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,595,863 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.8 20.00% 20.00% -4.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,673 2,416 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 95,101 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.86 10.00% 10.00% -1.50%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,682 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 828

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 6,154

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 17,423
      Compression
      		 272,035
      Encryption
      		 6,581
      Extended Instructions
      		 21,046
      Floating Point Maths
      		 34,063
      Integer Maths
      		 47,970
      Physics
      		 1,711
      Prime Numbers
      		 97
      Single Threaded
      		 1,682
      String Sorting
      		 34,265

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,673
      Database Operations
      		 4,211
      Memory Latency
      		 83
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19,282
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 6,079
      Memory Write
      		 6,618

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 177.27 149.91 0.85×
      bitops
      		 100,136 1,259,226 12.58×
      branch
      		 121,127 1,500,402 12.39×
      funccall
      		 244.74 5,897 24.09×
      funcret
      		 8,765 122,729 14.00×
      hash
      		 103,658 1,384,232 13.35×
      intmath
      		 17,557 260,749 14.85×
      nop
      		 148,326 1,941,888 13.09×
      prime
      		 261,632 3,335,363 12.75×
      rotate
      		 75,013 1,075,769 14.34×
      str
      		 625,131 8,654,497 13.84×
      wcs
      		 416,724 5,095,695 12.23×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 992.8 25,243 25.43×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 467.57 5,965 12.76×
      zlib
      		 40.88 625.64 15.30×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 8,058 105,908 13.14×
      clone
      		 355.81 3,120 8.77×
      context
      		 554.99 8,080 14.56×
      cpu-sched
      		 56.05 1,018 18.17×
      eventfd
      		 24,381 500,787 20.54×
      fault
      		 7,717 96,338 12.48×
      fork
      		 2,160 25,155 11.65×
      getrandom
      		 31,281 457,137 14.61×
      hrtimers
      		 134,180 1,417,520 10.56×
      mprotect
      		 547,871 1,252,933 2.29×
      mtx
      		 13,207,526 524,520,196 39.71×
      munmap
      		 1,487 24,098 16.21×
      null
      		 51,886 718,513 13.85×
      pipe
      		 398,592 2,624,475 6.58×
      priv-instr
      		 153,928 2,111,218 13.72×
      resched
      		 1,793,417 808,635 0.45×
      switch
      		 42,171 1,346,281 31.92×
      timermix
      		 121,165 1,512,263 12.48×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 8,251 32,579 3.95×
      tsc
      		 761,372 9,644,913 12.67×
      usersyscall
      		 99,989 1,292,331 12.92×
      vdso
      		 63,690,015 992,795,102 15.59×
      vfork
      		 13,903 126,857 9.12×
      x86syscall
      		 508,508 7,477,022 14.70×
      yield
      		 4,336,387 4,316,031 1.00×
      zero
      		 467,646 6,865,949 14.68×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 9,249 181,259 19.60×
      expmath
      		 2,120 29,980 14.14×
      fma
      		 478,744 6,940,467 14.50×
      fp
      		 132 1,884 14.27×
      fractal
      		 3.8 61.41 16.16×
      hyperbolic
      		 1,735 29,067 16.75×
      logmath
      		 3,598 53,444 14.86×
      matrix
      		 2,454 35,488 14.46×
      matrix-3d
      		 352.06 3,672 10.43×
      monte-carlo
      		 31.64 466.52 14.74×
      mpfr
      		 866.9 13,057 15.06×
      powmath
      		 1,253 18,326 14.63×
      trig
      		 1,358 17,277 12.73×
      veccmp
      		 12,288 154,649 12.59×
      vecfp
      		 1,730 23,066 13.33×
      vecmath
      		 1,557 23,937 15.37×
      vecshuf
      		 741.67 11,049 14.90×
      vecwide
      		 43,887 625,990 14.26×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 5.6 72.4 12.93×
      bsearch
      		 193.49 2,706 13.99×
      bubblesort
      		 0.6 8.8 14.67×
      fibsearch
      		 221.4 3,043 13.74×
      heapsort
      		 6.6 88.4 13.39×
      hsearch
      		 3,990 52,627 13.19×
      insertionsort
      		 6.4 84.8 13.25×
      malloc
      		 1,182,588 22,666,434 19.17×
      mcontend
      		 112.14 3,769 33.61×
      mergesort
      		 20.4 271.19 13.29×
      qsort
      		 14.8 194.19 13.12×
      skiplist
      		 4,129 56,835 13.76×
      tree
      		 0.6 7 11.67×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 196,851 316,533 1.61×
      cachehammer
      		 305,172 4,905,380 16.07×
      cacheline
      		 22.57 432.4 19.16×
      l1cache
      		 178.1 2,494 14.00×
      memcpy
      		 302.94 4,426 14.61×
      memrate
      		 0.94 8.54 9.09×
      memthrash
      		 130.76 493.97 3.78×
      ptr-chase
      		 7,539,576 114,391,983 15.17×
      spinmem
      		 157.39 625.34 3.97×
      stream
      		 31.42 4,083 129.94×
      vm
      		 15,895 292,326 18.39×

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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