E4-2ds_v6 by Microsoft Azure

E4-2ds_v6 is a Edsv6 family [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 236 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0392 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
236 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1,992
(All-cores)
1,942
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E4-2ds_v6
Name
E4-2ds_v6
API Reference
Standard_E4-2ds_v6
Description
Edsv6 family [Local Disk] [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
Edsv6
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-23T00:55:48.139202

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0604 USD/h 0.327 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0604 USD/h 0.327 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0604 USD/h 0.327 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0604 USD/h 0.327 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0683 USD/h 0.327 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0619 USD/h 0.335 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0619 USD/h 0.335 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0623 USD/h 0.337 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.337 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.337 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.0625 USD/h 0.338 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0643 USD/h 0.348 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0662 USD/h 0.358 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0662 USD/h 0.358 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0665 USD/h 0.36 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0671 USD/h 0.363 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0676 USD/h 0.366 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0676 USD/h 0.366 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0679 USD/h 0.37 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0695 USD/h 0.376 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0613 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.071 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.071 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.071 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.071 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0392 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0724 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0724 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0724 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0724 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0728 USD/h 0.394 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.0728 USD/h 0.394 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0728 USD/h 0.394 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.073 USD/h 0.395 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.073 USD/h 0.395 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.073 USD/h 0.395 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.073 USD/h 0.395 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.073 USD/h 0.395 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.073 USD/h 0.395 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.073 USD/h 0.395 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0732 USD/h 0.396 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0743 USD/h 0.402 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0761 USD/h 0.412 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0774 USD/h 0.419 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0785 USD/h 0.425 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0804 USD/h 0.435 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0804 USD/h 0.435 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0832 USD/h 0.45 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0846 USD/h 0.458 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0852 USD/h 0.461 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0865 USD/h 0.468 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0922 USD/h 0.499 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0948 USD/h 0.513 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0965 USD/h 0.522 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0966 USD/h 0.523 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1042 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1048 USD/h 0.567 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1061 USD/h 0.574 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1253 USD/h 0.678 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
4.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8573C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
48 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, vmx, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, 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, user_shstk, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, serialize, tsxldtrk, ibt, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
1
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring high memory density, local NVMe storage, and strong single-core Intel Xeon performance.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure E4-2ds_v6 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the Edsv6 family, powered by a dedicated 4.2 GHz Intel Xeon 8573C processor. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, it features 2 vCPUs and a substantial 32.0 GB of RAM, providing a high memory-to-core ratio of 16.0 GB. The instance includes 236 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. Performance benchmarks indicate strong single-core capabilities, highlighted by a Geekbench single-core score of 2160.0 and strong single-threaded gzip compression. However, multi-core performance and memory bandwidth are constrained by the low core count, as reflected in a weak Geekbench multi-core score of 2658.0. This server is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-heavy, low-concurrency workloads, making it suitable for small databases, caching layers, and text processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.28Score
    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) 392,738 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.21 50.00% 50.00% -54.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,071,125 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.17 20.00% 20.00% -30.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,026 2,416 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 33,083 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.3 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,891 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 2,160

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,658

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 3,742
    Compression
    		 35,006
    Encryption
    		 2,114
    Extended Instructions
    		 2,760
    Floating Point Maths
    		 6,762
    Integer Maths
    		 9,521
    Physics
    		 474
    Prime Numbers
    		 20
    Single Threaded
    		 2,891
    String Sorting
    		 4,837

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,026
    Database Operations
    		 1,637
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 26,529
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,994
    Memory Write
    		 9,383

    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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