E4_v4 by Microsoft Azure

E4_v4 is a Ev4 family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0302 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,699
(All-cores)
1,410
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E4_v4
Name
E4_v4
API Reference
Standard_E4_v4
Description
Ev4 family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
Ev4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-01T11:26:19.706628

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0466 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0466 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0505 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.053 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1236 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.048 USD/h 0.26 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.048 USD/h 0.26 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.26 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.26 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0495 USD/h 0.268 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0506 USD/h 0.274 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0506 USD/h 0.274 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.051 USD/h 0.276 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0755 USD/h 0.276 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0512 USD/h 0.277 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0517 USD/h 0.28 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0521 USD/h 0.282 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0691 USD/h 0.282 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0528 USD/h 0.285 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0532 USD/h 0.288 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.043 USD/h 0.296 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0547 USD/h 0.296 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
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0302 USD/h 0.302 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0558 USD/h 0.302 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0558 USD/h 0.302 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0558 USD/h 0.302 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0558 USD/h 0.302 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Denmark East (DK) / denmarkeast
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0562 USD/h 0.304 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0564 USD/h 0.305 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0573 USD/h 0.31 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0573 USD/h 0.31 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0586 USD/h 0.317 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0606 USD/h 0.328 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0615 USD/h 0.333 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0617 USD/h 0.334 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0617 USD/h 0.334 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0617 USD/h 0.334 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0619 USD/h 0.3344 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0621 USD/h 0.336 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0652 USD/h 0.353 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0708 USD/h 0.383 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
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0743 USD/h 0.402 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0782 USD/h 0.423 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0804 USD/h 0.435 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0816 USD/h 0.4414 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0966 USD/h 0.523 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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
2.6
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
    • 0 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-optimized virtual machine offering a high RAM-to-vCPU ratio for memory-intensive workloads with moderate processing requirements.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    The Microsoft Azure E4_v4 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the Ev4 family, running on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It features an x86_64 Intel Xeon 8272CL processor operating at 2.6 GHz, providing 4 dedicated vCPUs across 2 physical cores. The instance is equipped with 32.0 GB of RAM, offering a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8.0 GB per core, but includes no local storage or bundled public IPv4 addresses. Performance benchmarks indicate modest compute capabilities, with stress-ng and multi-core Geekbench scores placing in the bottom 25%, while PassMark memory and Geekbench single-core scores reach average levels. Given its high memory density relative to processing power, the E4_v4 is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-bound workloads with moderate CPU requirements, such as caching layers, small relational databases, and lightweight enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.261Score
    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) 355,965 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.186 50.00% 50.00% -56.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,226,219 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.191 20.00% 20.00% -28.20%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,212 2,418 0.915 10.00% 10.00% -0.88%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 25,710 MB/sec 108,131 MB/sec 0.238 10.00% 10.00% -13.40%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,009 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.849 10.00% 10.00% -1.62%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,226

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,742

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 4340
    Compression
    		 55736
    Encryption
    		 1708
    Extended Instructions
    		 3251
    Floating Point Maths
    		 6620
    Integer Maths
    		 12336
    Physics
    		 493
    Prime Numbers
    		 25
    Single Threaded
    		 2009
    String Sorting
    		 6620

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2212
    Database Operations
    		 1440
    Memory Latency
    		 50
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24312
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10806
    Memory Write
    		 9783

    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

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    E2_v4 216 GiB0
    E8_v4 864 GiB0
    E16_v4 16128 GiB0
    E20_v4 20160 GiB0
    E32_v4 32256 GiB0
    E48_v4 48384 GiB0
    E64_v4 64504 GiB0

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