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ecs.r8a.4xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.r8a.4xlarge is a ecs.r8a family (16 vCPUs, 128 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1599 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
24599
(All-cores)
3074
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.r8a.4xlarge
Description
ecs.r8a family (16 vCPUs, 128 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.r8a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
12.33
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-10T23:54:53.387877

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
0.1599 USD/h 0.8418 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
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 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 memory-optimized virtual server featuring dedicated AMD EPYC processors and high memory density for database and caching workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.r8a.4xlarge is a memory-optimized virtual server instance powered by the KVM hypervisor and an AMD EPYC 9T24 processor. It features 16 dedicated physical cores and 16 vCPUs on the x86_64 architecture, paired with 128.0 GB of RAM, providing a high 8.0 GB per core ratio. The instance lacks local storage and GPU accelerators, but offers a baseline network bandwidth of 7 Gbps. Performance benchmarks show strong single-core CPU capabilities, alongside average multi-core and database execution speeds. However, a tradeoff exists in memory bandwidth, where uncached large-block reads are weak compared to high cached small-block performance. This instance is well-suited for memory-intensive workloads such as in-memory databases, caching layers, and enterprise applications.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      26392
      Compression
      313088
      Encryption
      19273
      Extended Instructions
      21881
      Floating Point Maths
      42493
      Integer Maths
      75967
      Physics
      2470
      Prime Numbers
      125
      Single Threaded
      2879
      String Sorting
      45234

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      2410
      Database Operations
      7854
      Memory Latency
      86
      Memory Read Cached
      27476
      Memory Read Uncached
      24726
      Memory Write
      26026

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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