E2_v4 by Microsoft Azure

E2_v4 is a Ev4 family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0151 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,845
(All-cores)
1,406
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E2_v4
Name
E2_v4
API Reference
Standard_E2_v4
Description
Ev4 family [Intel processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
Ev4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-30T19:10:44.630481

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0233 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0233 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0233 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0265 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0494 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.024 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.024 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.13 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.13 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0248 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0253 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0253 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0255 USD/h 0.138 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0302 USD/h 0.138 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0257 USD/h 0.139 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0259 USD/h 0.14 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0261 USD/h 0.141 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0277 USD/h 0.141 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0263 USD/h 0.142 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0266 USD/h 0.144 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0237 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0273 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0273 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0273 USD/h 0.148 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0151 USD/h 0.151 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0279 USD/h 0.151 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0279 USD/h 0.151 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0279 USD/h 0.151 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0279 USD/h 0.151 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0281 USD/h 0.152 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0286 USD/h 0.155 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0286 USD/h 0.155 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0294 USD/h 0.159 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0303 USD/h 0.164 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0309 USD/h 0.167 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0309 USD/h 0.167 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0309 USD/h 0.167 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0309 USD/h 0.167 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0309 USD/h 0.1672 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0325 USD/h 0.176 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0355 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0364 USD/h 0.197 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0366 USD/h 0.198 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0371 USD/h 0.201 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0392 USD/h 0.212 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0401 USD/h 0.217 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0409 USD/h 0.2212 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0482 USD/h 0.261 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
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
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 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, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, vnmi, avx512_vnni, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
1.3
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A budget friendly virtual machine offering a high memory allocation relative to compute resources for lightweight memory intensive applications.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Microsoft Azure E2_v4 is a memory-optimized virtual machine instance featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs and 16.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture and managed by the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this instance provides a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8.0 GB per core. It does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks place the instance in the lower tiers, with weak single-core and poor multi-core CPU results, alongside constrained memory bandwidth. Qualitatively, the E2_v4 offers a cost-effective entry point for memory-intensive workloads that have modest CPU demands. It is best suited for small-scale databases, lightweight caching systems, and basic web serving applications.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.15Score
      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) 176,716 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.095 50.00% 50.00% -69.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,114,080 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.092 20.00% 20.00% -38.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,504 2,416 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 17,595 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.16 10.00% 10.00% -17.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,980 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,111

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,356

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 2,228
      Compression
      		 27,589
      Encryption
      		 847
      Extended Instructions
      		 1,726
      Floating Point Maths
      		 3,315
      Integer Maths
      		 6,180
      Physics
      		 289
      Prime Numbers
      		 14
      Single Threaded
      		 1,980
      String Sorting
      		 3,290

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,504
      Database Operations
      		 687
      Memory Latency
      		 57
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,985
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7,646
      Memory Write
      		 7,818

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 756.66 757.49 1.00×
      bitops
      		 107,410 123,228 1.15×
      branch
      		 153,592 232,629 1.51×
      funccall
      		 528.21 559.57 1.06×
      funcret
      		 11,086 15,939 1.44×
      hash
      		 124,034 178,965 1.44×
      intmath
      		 21,840 32,604 1.49×
      nop
      		 185,066 163,732 0.88×
      prime
      		 305,799 348,106 1.14×
      rotate
      		 95,367 130,221 1.37×
      str
      		 727,415 792,407 1.09×
      wcs
      		 458,956 496,938 1.08×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 2,380 2,358 0.99×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 589.97 716.22 1.21×
      zlib
      		 38.15 70.01 1.84×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 25,499 33,001 1.29×
      clone
      		 1,014 1,405 1.39×
      context
      		 2,832 3,416 1.21×
      cpu-sched
      		 63.72 142.03 2.23×
      eventfd
      		 35,515 115,316 3.25×
      fault
      		 10,015 12,635 1.26×
      fork
      		 4,230 6,208 1.47×
      getrandom
      		 44,367 53,355 1.20×
      hrtimers
      		 209,417 213,200 1.02×
      mprotect
      		 363,124 363,576 1.00×
      mtx
      		 7,234,652 17,518,941 2.42×
      munmap
      		 2,948 4,016 1.36×
      null
      		 328,763 349,538 1.06×
      pipe
      		 1,138,598 774,464 0.68×
      priv-instr
      		 585,428 681,213 1.16×
      resched
      		 221,102 146,106 0.66×
      switch
      		 105,299 308,957 2.93×
      timermix
      		 214,426 290,895 1.36×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 4,472 4,170 0.93×
      tsc
      		 973,906 1,346,700 1.38×
      usersyscall
      		 411,949 481,329 1.17×
      vdso
      		 72,863,511 102,195,253 1.40×
      vfork
      		 24,865 42,573 1.71×
      x86syscall
      		 3,773,049 4,058,499 1.08×
      yield
      		 1,316,573 989,212 0.75×
      zero
      		 2,116,693 2,319,482 1.10×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 15,843 20,200 1.27×
      expmath
      		 2,641 4,045 1.53×
      fma
      		 619,709 996,647 1.61×
      fp
      		 124.28 150.99 1.21×
      fractal
      		 4.8 7.2 1.50×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,732 4,312 1.58×
      logmath
      		 4,463 6,614 1.48×
      matrix
      		 3,069 4,860 1.58×
      matrix-3d
      		 624.68 527.03 0.84×
      monte-carlo
      		 150.59 172.32 1.14×
      mpfr
      		 1,183 1,285 1.09×
      powmath
      		 1,556 2,393 1.54×
      trig
      		 1,673 2,237 1.34×
      veccmp
      		 15,219 15,986 1.05×
      vecfp
      		 1,356 1,739 1.28×
      vecmath
      		 2,163 3,408 1.58×
      vecshuf
      		 551.9 599.46 1.09×
      vecwide
      		 25,431 28,841 1.13×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.2 8.4 1.17×
      bsearch
      		 239.55 272.12 1.14×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 0.8 1.00×
      fibsearch
      		 238.58 271.79 1.14×
      heapsort
      		 8.6 10.4 1.21×
      hsearch
      		 4,784 6,115 1.28×
      insertionsort
      		 8 8 1.00×
      malloc
      		 1,908,670 3,462,796 1.81×
      mcontend
      		 527.25 655.96 1.24×
      mergesort
      		 22.8 30.8 1.35×
      qsort
      		 14.4 17 1.18×
      skiplist
      		 4,796 6,821 1.42×
      tree
      		 1.4 2 1.43×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 231,226 234,842 1.02×
      cachehammer
      		 352,870 650,020 1.84×
      cacheline
      		 19.58 40.68 2.08×
      l1cache
      		 224.19 244.31 1.09×
      memcpy
      		 337.86 368.01 1.09×
      memrate
      		 1.18 1.16 0.98×
      memthrash
      		 48.09 75.33 1.57×
      ptr-chase
      		 22,400,200 27,769,500 1.24×
      spinmem
      		 326.38 172.19 0.53×
      stream
      		 23.41 62.28 2.66×
      vm
      		 57,854 95,873 1.66×

      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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