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B4als_v2 by Microsoft Azure

B4als_v2 is a Basv2 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0323 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
5401
(All-cores)
2702
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_B4als_v2
Name
B4als_v2
API Reference
Standard_B4als_v2
Description
Basv2 family [AMD processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 4 vCPUs
Family
Basv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
16
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-13T19:04:00.994056

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0785 USD/h 0.0872 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.0872 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.0872 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1197 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1197 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1197 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.1197 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1197 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.1242 USD/h 0.138 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1305 USD/h 0.145 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0323 USD/h 0.147 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1332 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1332 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0862 USD/h 0.151 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0862 USD/h 0.151 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1197 USD/h 0.151 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1359 USD/h 0.151 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1359 USD/h 0.151 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1368 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1368 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0873 USD/h 0.153 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0873 USD/h 0.153 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1377 USD/h 0.153 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1377 USD/h 0.153 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1377 USD/h 0.153 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1377 USD/h 0.153 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1377 USD/h 0.153 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1422 USD/h 0.158 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.144 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.144 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.144 USD/h 0.16 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1449 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1494 USD/h 0.166 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1503 USD/h 0.167 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1512 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.1512 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1512 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1512 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1512 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1539 USD/h 0.171 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1557 USD/h 0.173 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1557 USD/h 0.173 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1557 USD/h 0.173 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1566 USD/h 0.174 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1566 USD/h 0.174 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1593 USD/h 0.177 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.1061 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1674 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1692 USD/h 0.188 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1764 USD/h 0.196 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.1791 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1872 USD/h 0.208 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1926 USD/h 0.214 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1971 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1971 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2025 USD/h 0.225 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.2511 USD/h 0.279 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Burstable
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
3.525 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7763
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
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 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, nopl, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, user_shstk, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, arat, umip, vaes, vpclmulqdq, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
2
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
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A burstable, cost-efficient virtual machine featuring strong single-core performance and 8 GB of memory for variable, lightweight workloads.

    Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure B4als_v2 is a burstable virtual machine from the Basv2 family, featuring an AMD EPYC 7763 processor with 4 vCPUs across 2 physical cores, running at 3.525 GHz on an x86_64 architecture. It is configured with 8.0 GB of RAM, lacks local storage, and has no GPU. Performance benchmarks reveal a strong single-core CPU capability, ranking in the top 25% on stress-ng, but multi-core and memory performance are weak, falling into the bottom 25% and 10% respectively. This resource profile makes the server a cost-efficient option for workloads with variable CPU utilization. It is best suited for lightweight applications, development environments, and low-traffic web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.267Score
    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) 321,188 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.168 50.00% 50.00% -59.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,448,842 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.211 20.00% 20.00% -26.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,200 2,416 0.497 10.00% 10.00% -6.75%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 66,694 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.618 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,392 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 1.01 10.00% 10.00% +0.10%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,567

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,594

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 6183
    Compression
    		 64279
    Encryption
    		 4304
    Extended Instructions
    		 3612
    Floating Point Maths
    		 9174
    Integer Maths
    		 16563
    Physics
    		 752
    Prime Numbers
    		 39
    Single Threaded
    		 2392
    String Sorting
    		 9291

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1200
    Database Operations
    		 1863
    Memory Latency
    		 58
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24385
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 20543
    Memory Write
    		 20585

    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

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    B2ats_v2 21 GiB0
    B2als_v2 24 GiB0
    B2as_v2 28 GiB0
    B4as_v2 416 GiB0
    B8als_v2 816 GiB0
    B8as_v2 832 GiB0
    B16als_v2 1632 GiB0

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