B4ms by Microsoft Azure

B4ms is a BS family [Memory Intensive] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 33 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.166 USD per hour.

The B4ms server is equipped with 4 logical CPU cores on 4 Intel Xeon 8272CL physical CPU cores, 16 GiB of memory, 33 GB of storage, and no GPU. Additional block storage can be attached as needed.

We have run 51 frameworks on the B4ms server, and collected 436 performance metrics. Depending on your use case, you might want to look at our Memory bandwidth, Compression algo, or OpenSSL speed benchmarks, among others. As a baseline example, the multi-core Geekbench6 compound score suggests that the B4ms server is 1.4132x faster than the baseline Dell Precision 3460 with a Core i7-12700 processor.

The pricing for B4ms servers starts at 0.166 USD per hour, but the actual price depends on the selected region, zone and server allocation method (e.g. on-demand versus spot pricing options): currently, we track the prices in 114 regions and zones every 5 minutes, and the maximum price stands at 0.444 USD.

The B4ms server is offered by Microsoft Azure, founded in 2008, headquartered in Washington, United States. For more information, visit the Microsoft Azure homepage.

The B4ms server is available in 114 availability zones of the following 52 regions: East US (US), East US 2 (US), North Central US (US), West US 2 (US), West US 3 (US), Sweden Central (SE), Central India (IN), Jio India Central (IN), Jio India West (IN), North Europe (IE), Mexico Central (ZA), Spain Central (ES), Canada Central (CA), Canada East (CA), UK West (GB), France Central (FR), UK South (GB), Germany West Central (DE), Israel Central (IL), Italy North (IT), West Europe (NL), West US (US), Central US (US), South Central US (US), UAE North (AE), West Central US (US), Qatar Central (QA), Korea South (KR), Korea Central (KR), Australia Central (AU), Australia Central 2 (AU), Australia East (AU), Australia Southeast (AU), Norway East (NO), Poland Central (PL), Southeast Asia (SG), Switzerland North (CH), South Africa North (ZA), Japan East (JP), East Asia (HK), South India (IN), West India (IN), Japan West (JP), Germany North (DE), UAE Central (AE), Brazil South (BR), France South (FR), South Africa West (ZA), Norway West (NO), Switzerland West (CH), Brazil Southeast (US), New Zealand North (NZ).

Yes! In addition to the B4ms server, the BS server family includes 7 other sizes: B1ls (azure), B1s (azure), B1ms (azure), B2s (azure), B2ms (azure), B8ms (azure), B12ms (azure).

Looking at the number of GPU, vCPUs, and memory amount, the following top 10 servers come with similar specs: c2d-standard-4 (gcp), t2d-standard-4 (gcp), t2a-standard-4 (gcp), c3-standard-4 (gcp), c3-standard-4-lssd (gcp), c3d-standard-4 (gcp), n4-standard-4 (gcp).