D4 by Microsoft Azure

D4 is a D family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 28 GiB of memory and 410 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1092 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
28 GiB Memory
410 GB Storage
Spare SCore
8,196
(All-cores)
1,081
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_D4
Name
D4
API Reference
Standard_D4
Description
D family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
D
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-09-14T22:05:39.605206

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1092 USD/h 0.536 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.3297 USD/h 0.536 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1108 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1148 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1189 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2899 USD/h 0.597 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1218 USD/h 0.598 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1194 USD/h 0.616 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1254 USD/h 0.616 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1254 USD/h 0.616 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1258 USD/h 0.616 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1331 USD/h 0.616 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1313 USD/h 0.643 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1369 USD/h 0.672 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1369 USD/h 0.672 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.138 USD/h 0.678 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1462 USD/h 0.718 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1515 USD/h 0.744 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1515 USD/h 0.744 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1537 USD/h 0.755 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1547 USD/h 0.76 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1564 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1568 USD/h 0.77 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1568 USD/h 0.77 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1601 USD/h 0.784 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1644 USD/h 0.807 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1702 USD/h 0.836 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1798 USD/h 0.883 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1839 USD/h 0.9 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1837 USD/h 0.902 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.2012 USD/h 0.988 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8272CL
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
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, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, md_clear
Ecpus
7.6
Scalability
95

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
28 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
28 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    410 GB
    Storages
    • 410 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    An 8-core x86_64 virtual machine with balanced memory and local storage, optimized for multi-threaded general-purpose workloads.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure D4 is an x86_64 general-purpose virtual machine powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz. It features 8 dedicated physical cores, 28.0 GB of system memory, and 410 GB of local storage, with no integrated GPU. Operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance exhibits a performance profile characterized by weak single-core metrics but average multi-core and memory capabilities. Specifically, single-core Geekbench and stress-ng tests rank in the bottom 25%, while multi-core benchmarks, memory bandwidth, and database operations consistently fall within the middle 50% tier. With a balanced resource density, the D4 is suitable for multi-threaded workloads, static web serving, software compilation, and moderate database operations that do not require high single-threaded performance.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.604Score
    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) 1,021,146 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.533 50.00% 50.00% -27.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,407,205 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.548 20.00% 20.00% -11.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,367 2,418 0.979 10.00% 10.00% -0.21%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 71,213 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.659 10.00% 10.00% -4.08%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,844 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.78 10.00% 10.00% -2.45%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,049

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 5,821

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11118
    Compression
    		 145675
    Encryption
    		 3703
    Extended Instructions
    		 12552
    Floating Point Maths
    		 24097
    Integer Maths
    		 28769
    Physics
    		 1268
    Prime Numbers
    		 86
    Single Threaded
    		 1844
    String Sorting
    		 17435

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2367
    Database Operations
    		 5095
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21617
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11572
    Memory Write
    		 9565

    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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