DS4 by Microsoft Azure

DS4 is a DS family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 8 vCPUs, 28 GiB of memory and 57 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1138 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
28 GiB Memory
57 GB Storage
Spare SCore
9,939
(All-cores)
1,245
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_DS4
Name
DS4
API Reference
Standard_DS4
Description
DS family [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
DS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
23
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-06T01:22:09.638721

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1203 USD/h 0.536 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.2638 USD/h 0.536 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1221 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1266 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.131 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.2319 USD/h 0.597 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1342 USD/h 0.598 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.1138 USD/h 0.616 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.1382 USD/h 0.616 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1382 USD/h 0.616 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.1387 USD/h 0.616 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1433 USD/h 0.616 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1443 USD/h 0.643 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1447 USD/h 0.643 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1509 USD/h 0.672 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1509 USD/h 0.672 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1521 USD/h 0.678 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1611 USD/h 0.718 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.167 USD/h 0.744 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.167 USD/h 0.744 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1694 USD/h 0.755 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1705 USD/h 0.76 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1723 USD/h 0.768 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1728 USD/h 0.77 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1728 USD/h 0.77 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1764 USD/h 0.784 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1812 USD/h 0.807 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1876 USD/h 0.836 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1981 USD/h 0.883 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.2026 USD/h 0.9 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.2025 USD/h 0.902 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.2217 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
8
Scalability
100

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
    57 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 57 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A balanced eight-vCPU virtual machine with dedicated Intel Xeon processing and local storage for multi-threaded general-purpose workloads.

    General Purpose

    Microsoft Azure DS4 is a general-purpose virtual machine instance from the DS family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL x86_64 processor with 8 dedicated vCPUs and 8 physical cores running at 2.6 GHz. It is configured with 28.0 GB of RAM and 57 GB of local storage, operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. Performance benchmarks reveal a contrast between weak single-core execution and average multi-core capabilities. Memory bandwidth is consistent, reaching 720.11 GB/sec for cached small blocks. The instance is suited for multi-threaded workloads such as static web serving, software compilation, and database operations, offering a balanced resource profile for general-purpose enterprise applications that do not demand high single-threaded performance.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.62Score
    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) 1,042,947 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.53 50.00% 50.00% -27.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,837,669 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.57 20.00% 20.00% -11.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,279 2,417 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 94,627 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.86 10.00% 10.00% -1.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,839 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,100

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 6,121

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11056
    Compression
    		 145553
    Encryption
    		 3702
    Extended Instructions
    		 12215
    Floating Point Maths
    		 23804
    Integer Maths
    		 28733
    Physics
    		 1240
    Prime Numbers
    		 85
    Single Threaded
    		 1839
    String Sorting
    		 17415

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2279
    Database Operations
    		 5026
    Memory Latency
    		 60
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21618
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11424
    Memory Write
    		 8994

    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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