DC4s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

DC4s_v3 is a DCSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0414 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
7,558
(All-cores)
1,898
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DC4s_v3
Name
DC4s_v3
API Reference
Standard_DC4s_v3
Description
DCSv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
DCSv3
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-31T04:55:00.558400

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0414 USD/h 0.224 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0425 USD/h 0.23 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0471 USD/h 0.253 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0553 USD/h 0.299 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.061 USD/h 0.33 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.071 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.071 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0806 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0747 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.404 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.404 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0791 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0791 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0801 USD/h 0.434 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0821 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0828 USD/h 0.448 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.085 USD/h 0.46 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0852 USD/h 0.461 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0887 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0887 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0917 USD/h 0.496 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1 USD/h 0.541 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1064 USD/h 0.576 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8370C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
5 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
48 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, tsc_reliable, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, 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, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, sgx, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, sgx_lc, fsrm, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
4
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
48 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A dedicated four-core Intel-powered virtual machine offering high memory density for memory-bound enterprise applications and database workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      The Microsoft Azure DC4s_v3 is an x86_64 virtual machine from the DCSv3 family, powered by a dedicated 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon 8370C processor with 4 physical cores and 4 vCPUs. It features 32.0 GB of RAM, providing a high 8.0 GB per core memory density, but includes no local storage or GPUs. Operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance delivers average performance across standard compute and memory benchmarks, including a Geekbench multi-core score of 5404.0 and a Redis SET throughput of 8.7 million operations per second. However, it exhibits weaker performance in multi-threaded decompression and medium-sized LLM inference. Given its high memory-to-vCPU ratio and lack of local storage, the DC4s_v3 is best suited for memory-optimized workloads, database operations, caching layers, and general-purpose enterprise applications requiring dedicated CPU resources.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.56Score
      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) 921,216 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.48 50.00% 50.00% -31.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 5,486,157 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.46 20.00% 20.00% -14.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,331 2,416 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 65,363 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.59 10.00% 10.00% -5.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,433 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,679

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 5,404

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 8,944
      Compression
      		 90,004
      Encryption
      		 4,672
      Extended Instructions
      		 7,332
      Floating Point Maths
      		 17,315
      Integer Maths
      		 21,012
      Physics
      		 1,129
      Prime Numbers
      		 68
      Single Threaded
      		 2,433
      String Sorting
      		 12,555

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,331
      Database Operations
      		 3,972
      Memory Latency
      		 60
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24,418
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11,285
      Memory Write
      		 10,498

      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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