E4s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

E4s_v3 is a ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 66 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0319 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
66 GB Storage
Spare SCore
3,268
(All-cores)
1,243
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E4s_v3
Name
E4s_v3
API Reference
Standard_E4s_v3
Description
ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
ESv3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-01T13:13:15.382323Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0495 USD/h -
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.054 USD/h -
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0547 USD/h -
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.065 USD/h -
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.0673 USD/h -
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.073 USD/h -
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0869 USD/h -
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 2 (US) / eastus2
- 0.266 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
- 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
- 0.277 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
0.0483 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.054 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0837 USD/h 0.292 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
- 0.292 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0547 USD/h 0.296 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
- 0.296 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
- 0.302 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
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
- 0.304 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0573 USD/h 0.31 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
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0591 USD/h 0.32 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
- 0.32 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
- 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
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0726 USD/h 0.393 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
- 0.4056 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0778 USD/h 0.42 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
- 0.4574 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0846 USD/h 0.458 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.1129 USD/h 0.611 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
8171M
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, pti, tpr_shadow, ept, vpid, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xsaves, vnmi, md_clear
Ecpus
2.6
Scalability
65

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
    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

    An x86_64 virtual machine featuring a high memory-to-vCPU ratio for memory-intensive workloads with moderate compute requirements.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure E4s_v3 is a memory-optimized virtual machine from the ESv3 family, configured with 4 vCPUs and 32.0 GB of RAM. Powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8171M processor running at 2.6 GHz, this x86_64 instance features 2 physical cores with Hyper-Threading and includes 66 GB of local storage with Premium Storage support. Benchmark data indicates modest performance characteristics, with CPU and memory bandwidth scores consistently falling into the bottom 10% to 25% of tested hardware. Specifically, the instance achieved a Geekbench multi-core score of 1936.0 and a PassMark memory score of 1739.08. Given the high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8.0 GB per core alongside lower compute throughput, the E4s_v3 is best suited for memory-intensive but computationally light workloads, such as basic caching layers, lightweight database hosting, and static web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.2Score
    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) 257,473 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.14 50.00% 50.00% -63.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,709,699 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.14 20.00% 20.00% -33.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,739 2,418 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 25,460 MB/sec 108,322 MB/sec 0.23 10.00% 10.00% -14.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,658 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 872

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,936

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 3471
    Compression
    		 44552
    Encryption
    		 1285
    Extended Instructions
    		 3004
    Floating Point Maths
    		 5150
    Integer Maths
    		 9729
    Physics
    		 445
    Prime Numbers
    		 22
    Single Threaded
    		 1658
    String Sorting
    		 5067

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1739
    Database Operations
    		 1180
    Memory Latency
    		 60
    Memory Read Cached
    		 19439
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 7262
    Memory Write
    		 7466

    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
    E2s_v3 216 GiB0
    E4-2s_v3 232 GiB0
    E8-2s_v3 264 GiB0
    E8-4s_v3 464 GiB0
    E16-4s_v3 4128 GiB0
    E8s_v3 864 GiB0
    E16-8s_v3 8128 GiB0

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