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ecs.n4.xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.n4.xlarge is a ecs.n4 family (4 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 4 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0235 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
4400
(All-cores)
1106
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.n4.xlarge
Description
ecs.n4 family (4 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.n4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-21T01:27:01.593267

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Virginia (US) / us-east-1
0.0235 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / cn-hongkong
- 0.169 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
- 0.173 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.0274 USD/h 0.196 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Shared
CPU Cores
4
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
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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
4
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
      0.8 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A budget-friendly, shared-CPU virtual server designed for lightweight development environments and low-intensity background processing tasks.

      Burstable & BudgetCompute Optimized

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.n4.xlarge is an x86_64 virtual server configured with 4 vCPUs on a shared Intel Xeon 8163 processor running at 2.5 GHz. It features 8.0 GB of RAM, providing 2.0 GB of memory per core, with no local storage or GPU accelerators. Operating under the KVM hypervisor, it delivers a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps. Benchmark data indicates limited performance, with single-core and multi-core CPU metrics, memory read bandwidth, and compression speeds largely falling into the bottom 10% to 25% cohorts. Consequently, this instance represents a budget-oriented tier with low resource density. It is best suited for lightweight workloads, such as basic web serving, development testing, and low-intensity background tasks where high compute performance is not required.

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      Average Price per Region

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.252Score
      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) 347,947 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.183 50.00% 50.00% -57.20%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,357,022 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.204 20.00% 20.00% -27.20%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,170 2,411 0.485 10.00% 10.00% -6.98%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 37,613 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.35 10.00% 10.00% -9.97%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,676 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.709 10.00% 10.00% -3.38%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 847

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,301

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		5186
      Compression
      		67423
      Encryption
      		1642
      Extended Instructions
      		5283
      Floating Point Maths
      		9701
      Integer Maths
      		12763
      Physics
      		583
      Prime Numbers
      		41
      Single Threaded
      		1676
      String Sorting
      		8799

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		1170
      Database Operations
      		1059
      Memory Latency
      		81
      Memory Read Cached
      		19414
      Memory Read Uncached
      		6107
      Memory Write
      		6707

      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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