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ecs.n4.small by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.n4.small is a ecs.n4 family (1 vCPUs, 2 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 1 vCPUs, 2 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0043 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
2 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1062
(All-cores)
1062
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.n4.small
Description
ecs.n4 family (1 vCPUs, 2 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.n4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
16
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-12T09:26:02.260924

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Virginia (US) / us-east-1
0.0044 USD/h 0.023 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
- 0.027 USD/h
Kuala Lumpur (MY) / ap-southeast-3
0.0049 USD/h 0.029 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
- 0.03 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / cn-hongkong
- 0.03 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
8269CY
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
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 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, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, arat, avx512_vnni
Ecpus
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
2 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 server designed for lightweight background processes, basic web hosting, and non-critical software development environments.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.n4.small is an entry-level, KVM-based virtual machine featuring a single shared vCPU from an Intel Xeon 8269CY processor clocked at 2.5 GHz, paired with 2.0 GB of RAM. It lacks local storage and dedicated GPU accelerators, and has a baseline network bandwidth of 0 Gbps. Performance benchmarks consistently place this instance in the lower percentiles, with a stress-ng CPU score of 1061.69 and a Passmark CPU score of 1277.65. The x86_64 architecture supports AVX and AVX512 instructions, though memory bandwidth remains constrained, measuring 8.61 GB/sec for large uncached blocks. Due to its shared CPU allocation and low memory capacity, it offers a highly economical profile for non-critical, low-resource tasks. It is best suited for basic web serving, lightweight background processes, and software development or testing environments that do not require sustained compute power.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      1278
      Compression
      15379
      Encryption
      400
      Extended Instructions
      1187
      Floating Point Maths
      2340
      Integer Maths
      3128
      Physics
      158
      Prime Numbers
      10
      Single Threaded
      1511
      String Sorting
      2039

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      713
      Database Operations
      520
      Memory Latency
      81
      Memory Read Cached
      18182
      Memory Read Uncached
      6684
      Memory Write
      6820

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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