E2a_v4 by Microsoft Azure

E2a_v4 is a EAv4 family [AMD processor] 2 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 51 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0148 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
51 GB Storage
Spare SCore
763
(All-cores)
763
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E2a_v4
Name
E2a_v4
API Reference
Standard_E2a_v4
Description
EAv4 family [AMD processor] 2 vCPUs
Family
EAv4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
30
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-28T00:34:59.606210

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0148 USD/h 0.08 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.08 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.08 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0233 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
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
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.024 USD/h 0.13 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0246 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0248 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0251 USD/h 0.136 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0253 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0253 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.0253 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0253 USD/h 0.137 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0255 USD/h 0.138 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0255 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
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0261 USD/h 0.141 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0262 USD/h 0.142 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0266 USD/h 0.144 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0236 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
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
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
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
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0286 USD/h 0.155 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0286 USD/h 0.155 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0292 USD/h 0.158 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0323 USD/h 0.159 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0298 USD/h 0.161 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
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.031 USD/h 0.168 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0329 USD/h 0.178 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0333 USD/h 0.18 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0333 USD/h 0.18 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0355 USD/h 0.192 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
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0373 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0403 USD/h 0.218 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0432 USD/h 0.234 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0432 USD/h 0.234 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
3.525 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7763
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
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, rep_good, nopl, cpuid, extd_apicid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, xsaveerptr, arat, umip, vaes, vpclmulqdq, rdpid, fsrm
Ecpus
1
Scalability
50

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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring a high memory-to-core ratio and local SSD storage for workloads with modest compute requirements.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure E2a_v4 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the EAv4 family, powered by an AMD EPYC 7763 processor. It features 2 dedicated vCPUs on a single physical core, 16.0 GB of RAM, and 51 GB of local SSD storage. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this x86_64 instance provides a high memory-to-core ratio of 8.0 GB per core. Benchmark data reveals average single-core performance in Geekbench and text processing, but poor multi-core execution, software compilation, and database operations. The server represents a cost-efficient choice for memory-intensive workloads with low compute demands. It is best suited for lightweight memory-bound applications, basic text processing, and small-scale development environments.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.17Score
    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) 156,771 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.084 50.00% 50.00% -71.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,195,133 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.1 20.00% 20.00% -37.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,021 2,416 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 55,648 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.51 10.00% 10.00% -6.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,333 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,582

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,974

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 3,138
    Compression
    		 32,253
    Encryption
    		 2,153
    Extended Instructions
    		 1,765
    Floating Point Maths
    		 4,567
    Integer Maths
    		 8,252
    Physics
    		 397
    Prime Numbers
    		 20
    Single Threaded
    		 2,333
    String Sorting
    		 4,644

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,021
    Database Operations
    		 895
    Memory Latency
    		 64
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24,161
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 19,527
    Memory Write
    		 18,485

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 515.9 513.31 0.99×
    bitops
    		 140,665 161,523 1.15×
    branch
    		 163,980 298,063 1.82×
    funccall
    		 530.9 696.99 1.31×
    funcret
    		 16,871 21,562 1.28×
    hash
    		 134,615 204,936 1.52×
    intmath
    		 57,363 77,970 1.36×
    nop
    		 276,795 281,507 1.02×
    prime
    		 382,520 478,664 1.25×
    rotate
    		 75,655 76,644 1.01×
    str
    		 840,871 1,036,983 1.23×
    wcs
    		 549,035 637,088 1.16×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 3,158 3,088 0.98×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 729.92 1,032 1.41×
    zlib
    		 57.09 103.9 1.82×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 3,799 7,006 1.84×
    clone
    		 929.42 1,336 1.44×
    context
    		 3,398 5,677 1.67×
    cpu-sched
    		 58.13 136.88 2.35×
    eventfd
    		 28,651 108,373 3.78×
    fault
    		 7,416 11,002 1.48×
    fork
    		 4,228 6,797 1.61×
    getrandom
    		 45,064 57,984 1.29×
    hrtimers
    		 73,345 121,050 1.65×
    mprotect
    		 387,513 390,278 1.01×
    mtx
    		 18,362,944 33,580,482 1.83×
    munmap
    		 2,782 4,298 1.54×
    null
    		 430,213 700,094 1.63×
    pipe
    		 1,596,761 758,489 0.48×
    priv-instr
    		 387,717 618,316 1.59×
    resched
    		 168,500 115,590 0.69×
    switch
    		 48,288 256,458 5.31×
    timermix
    		 41,963 83,098 1.98×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 7,765 7,032 0.91×
    tsc
    		 666,311 1,258,655 1.89×
    usersyscall
    		 307,258 495,811 1.61×
    vdso
    		 72,854,993 119,625,836 1.64×
    vfork
    		 23,744 42,492 1.79×
    x86syscall
    		 5,352,694 8,685,110 1.62×
    yield
    		 847,982 1,207,151 1.42×
    zero
    		 2,827,489 4,283,324 1.51×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 13,687 14,529 1.06×
    expmath
    		 2,343 3,845 1.64×
    fma
    		 775,302 1,220,139 1.57×
    fp
    		 225.6 332.83 1.48×
    fractal
    		 6.8 11.2 1.65×
    hyperbolic
    		 3,250 4,861 1.50×
    logmath
    		 3,818 5,495 1.44×
    matrix
    		 2,692 4,022 1.49×
    matrix-3d
    		 87.5 188.23 2.15×
    monte-carlo
    		 203.78 321.75 1.58×
    mpfr
    		 1,375 1,716 1.25×
    powmath
    		 1,159 1,917 1.66×
    trig
    		 1,476 2,275 1.54×
    veccmp
    		 15,864 20,871 1.32×
    vecfp
    		 1,465 2,133 1.46×
    vecmath
    		 3,405 5,450 1.60×
    vecshuf
    		 525.61 616.26 1.17×
    vecwide
    		 23,462 29,838 1.27×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 8.6 9.2 1.07×
    bsearch
    		 262.27 327.44 1.25×
    bubblesort
    		 0.8 1.2 1.50×
    fibsearch
    		 312.8 349.82 1.12×
    heapsort
    		 9 11.6 1.29×
    hsearch
    		 7,265 8,894 1.22×
    insertionsort
    		 11.2 11.6 1.04×
    malloc
    		 2,957,162 5,142,925 1.74×
    mcontend
    		 269.8 351.82 1.30×
    mergesort
    		 28.4 40.8 1.44×
    qsort
    		 18.2 25.2 1.38×
    skiplist
    		 6,082 9,266 1.52×
    tree
    		 1.8 2.8 1.56×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 577,508 583,422 1.01×
    cachehammer
    		 260,992 459,572 1.76×
    cacheline
    		 22.51 46.43 2.06×
    l1cache
    		 166.09 159.88 0.96×
    memcpy
    		 354.86 342.06 0.96×
    memrate
    		 2.75 3.13 1.14×
    memthrash
    		 51.06 96.7 1.89×
    ptr-chase
    		 53,107,964 40,038,468 0.75×
    spinmem
    		 188.79 46.59 0.25×
    stream
    		 82.65 258.2 3.12×
    vm
    		 146,796 197,948 1.35×

    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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