E4-2s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

E4-2s_v3 is a ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 2 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 66 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0319 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
66 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1,377
(All-cores)
1,347
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E4-2s_v3
Name
E4-2s_v3
API Reference
Standard_E4-2s_v3
Description
ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
ESv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
31
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-05T18:46:38.238543

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0466 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0466 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0466 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0504 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0917 USD/h 0.266 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0495 USD/h 0.268 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0506 USD/h 0.274 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.274 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.274 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0512 USD/h 0.277 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0521 USD/h 0.282 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0521 USD/h 0.282 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0532 USD/h 0.288 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0532 USD/h 0.288 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0532 USD/h 0.288 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0491 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.054 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.054 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.054 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0837 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0547 USD/h 0.296 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0547 USD/h 0.296 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0547 USD/h 0.296 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.056 USD/h 0.302 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0573 USD/h 0.31 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0549 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0577 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0577 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0586 USD/h 0.317 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0319 USD/h 0.319 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.059 USD/h 0.319 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.059 USD/h 0.319 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.059 USD/h 0.319 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0591 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0591 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0591 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0591 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0591 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0617 USD/h 0.334 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0617 USD/h 0.334 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0621 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.065 USD/h 0.352 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.065 USD/h 0.352 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.0673 USD/h 0.364 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0726 USD/h 0.393 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.073 USD/h 0.395 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.075 USD/h 0.4056 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0778 USD/h 0.42 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0845 USD/h 0.4574 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0846 USD/h 0.458 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0869 USD/h 0.47 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1129 USD/h 0.611 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2673 v4
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
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
50 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
50 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, pti, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, vnmi, md_clear
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
    66 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 66 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine featuring a high memory-to-core ratio and local SSD storage for low-compute, memory-intensive workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure E4-2s_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the ESv3 family, powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processor running at 2.3 GHz. It provides 2 vCPUs across 1 physical core, 32.0 GB of RAM, and 66 GB of local SSD storage with Premium Storage capabilities. Benchmark results place its compute and memory bandwidth performance in the lower tiers, with stress-ng and Geekbench scores falling in the bottom 10% to 25%. However, its high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 16.0 GB per core makes it a qualitatively cost-efficient choice for memory-heavy workloads that do not demand high CPU throughput. It is best suited for lightweight database operations, caching layers, and memory-intensive general-purpose applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.12Score
    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) 116,900 ops/sec 1,936,298 ops/sec 0.063 50.00% 50.00% -75.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 791,831 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 0.066 20.00% 20.00% -42.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,335 2,407 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 31,762 MB/sec 108,490 MB/sec 0.29 10.00% 10.00% -12.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,585 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 871

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,030

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 1,537
    Compression
    		 19,255
    Encryption
    		 462
    Extended Instructions
    		 931
    Floating Point Maths
    		 3,011
    Integer Maths
    		 4,446
    Physics
    		 207
    Prime Numbers
    		 13
    Single Threaded
    		 1,585
    String Sorting
    		 2,858

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,335
    Database Operations
    		 528
    Memory Latency
    		 69
    Memory Read Cached
    		 19,089
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7,042
    Memory Write
    		 5,709

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 459.24 448.07 0.98×
    bitops
    		 74,017 80,397 1.09×
    branch
    		 99,799 143,037 1.43×
    funccall
    		 324.58 330.81 1.02×
    funcret
    		 6,711 9,331 1.39×
    hash
    		 81,717 119,438 1.46×
    intmath
    		 13,300 19,852 1.49×
    nop
    		 110,375 101,000 0.92×
    prime
    		 196,579 213,518 1.09×
    rotate
    		 61,544 79,719 1.30×
    str
    		 408,145 485,846 1.19×
    wcs
    		 273,158 284,408 1.04×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 1,403 1,420 1.01×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 333.72 416.63 1.25×
    zlib
    		 36.53 45.71 1.25×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 10,999 14,435 1.31×
    clone
    		 664.32 953.05 1.43×
    context
    		 1,203 1,569 1.30×
    cpu-sched
    		 66.71 116.69 1.75×
    eventfd
    		 17,511 56,322 3.22×
    fault
    		 3,968 6,139 1.55×
    fork
    		 2,125 3,104 1.46×
    getrandom
    		 26,740 31,823 1.19×
    hrtimers
    		 93,052 134,609 1.45×
    mprotect
    		 184,664 179,814 0.97×
    mtx
    		 3,881,957 36,799,789 9.48×
    munmap
    		 1,432 2,041 1.43×
    null
    		 123,348 149,984 1.22×
    pipe
    		 554,812 323,556 0.58×
    priv-instr
    		 286,785 370,861 1.29×
    resched
    		 103,837 74,159 0.71×
    switch
    		 44,940 177,693 3.95×
    timermix
    		 119,089 168,985 1.42×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 2,853 2,664 0.93×
    tsc
    		 614,834 1,125,087 1.83×
    usersyscall
    		 192,325 233,239 1.21×
    vdso
    		 46,409,211 62,797,841 1.35×
    vfork
    		 11,479 18,407 1.60×
    x86syscall
    		 1,389,640 1,733,643 1.25×
    yield
    		 540,620 527,627 0.98×
    zero
    		 963,389 1,132,052 1.18×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 9,091 11,315 1.24×
    expmath
    		 1,606 2,347 1.46×
    fma
    		 381,080 581,296 1.53×
    fp
    		 74.25 95.28 1.28×
    fractal
    		 3.2 4.2 1.31×
    hyperbolic
    		 1,785 2,752 1.54×
    logmath
    		 2,802 4,167 1.49×
    matrix
    		 2,348 2,576 1.10×
    matrix-3d
    		 394.59 312.59 0.79×
    monte-carlo
    		 64.45 85.03 1.32×
    mpfr
    		 694.81 731.88 1.05×
    powmath
    		 1,000 1,411 1.41×
    trig
    		 1,092 1,237 1.13×
    veccmp
    		 7,983 9,067 1.14×
    vecfp
    		 526.5 646.62 1.23×
    vecmath
    		 1,342 1,981 1.48×
    vecshuf
    		 337.97 359.75 1.06×
    vecwide
    		 14,734 16,405 1.11×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 4.4 5 1.14×
    bsearch
    		 144.88 172.07 1.19×
    bubblesort
    		 0.4 0.4 1.00×
    fibsearch
    		 165.94 198.81 1.20×
    heapsort
    		 5 6 1.20×
    hsearch
    		 2,539 3,074 1.21×
    insertionsort
    		 5 4.8 0.96×
    malloc
    		 946,252 1,715,934 1.81×
    mcontend
    		 337.81 356.4 1.06×
    mergesort
    		 16 21.8 1.36×
    qsort
    		 11.4 13.4 1.18×
    skiplist
    		 3,655 4,870 1.33×
    tree
    		 0.6 0.8 1.33×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 146,521 166,072 1.13×
    cachehammer
    		 374,675 635,947 1.70×
    cacheline
    		 11.64 21.59 1.85×
    l1cache
    		 121.78 122.62 1.01×
    memcpy
    		 260.3 275.89 1.06×
    memrate
    		 0.77 0.94 1.22×
    memthrash
    		 27.39 58.22 2.13×
    ptr-chase
    		 9,193,479 17,327,128 1.88×
    spinmem
    		 97.59 45.38 0.47×
    stream
    		 21.22 45.83 2.16×
    vm
    		 18,084 43,369 2.40×

    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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