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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 0.0138 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
2026-07-29T19:15:52.135976

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0138 USD/h 0.08 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.08 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.08 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
0.0242 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0265 USD/h 0.126 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0341 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 East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0255 USD/h 0.138 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0265 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
0.0178 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
0.0296 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
0.0294 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
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    51 GB
    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 dual-vCPU instance featuring sixteen gigabytes of RAM for lightweight, memory-bound workloads and caching layers.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    The Microsoft Azure E2a_v4 is a memory-optimized virtual machine powered by an AMD EPYC 7763 processor running at 3.525 GHz on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features 2 dedicated vCPUs (1 physical core, 2 threads), 16.0 GB of RAM, and 51 GB of local storage, with no GPU. This configuration yields a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8.0 GB per core. Performance benchmarks show average single-core and text-processing capabilities, but poor multi-core, database, and web-serving throughput. Consequently, the E2a_v4 is a cost-effective option for memory-bound, low-CPU workloads such as small caching layers, lightweight enterprise applications, and basic memory-intensive development environments, while remaining less suitable for compute-heavy or high-transaction database tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.168Score
    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 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.0827 50.00% 50.00% -71.20%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,195,133 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.104 20.00% 20.00% -36.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,021 2,411 0.839 10.00% 10.00% -1.74%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 55,648 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.518 10.00% 10.00% -6.37%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,333 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.987 10.00% 10.00% -0.13%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,582

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,974

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 3138
    Compression
    		 32253
    Encryption
    		 2153
    Extended Instructions
    		 1765
    Floating Point Maths
    		 4567
    Integer Maths
    		 8252
    Physics
    		 397
    Prime Numbers
    		 20
    Single Threaded
    		 2333
    String Sorting
    		 4644

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2021
    Database Operations
    		 895
    Memory Latency
    		 64
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24161
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 19527
    Memory Write
    		 18485

    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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