E8-4s_v3 by Microsoft Azure

E8-4s_v3 is a ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 137 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0638 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
137 GB Storage
Spare SCore
3,255
(All-cores)
1,241
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_E8-4s_v3
Name
E8-4s_v3
API Reference
Standard_E8-4s_v3
Description
ESv3 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 8 vCPUs
Family
ESv3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-11-11T15:01:48.952758

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0931 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0931 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0931 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.1008 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.1834 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0989 USD/h 0.536 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.1013 USD/h 0.548 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.548 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.548 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.1024 USD/h 0.554 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.1035 USD/h 0.56 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.1042 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.1042 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.1064 USD/h 0.576 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.1064 USD/h 0.576 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.1064 USD/h 0.576 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.098 USD/h 0.583 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.1077 USD/h 0.583 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.1077 USD/h 0.583 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.1079 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.1674 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.1094 USD/h 0.592 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.1094 USD/h 0.592 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.1121 USD/h 0.605 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.1124 USD/h 0.608 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.1124 USD/h 0.608 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.1124 USD/h 0.608 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.1146 USD/h 0.62 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.1098 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.1153 USD/h 0.624 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.1172 USD/h 0.634 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0638 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.1179 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.1179 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.1179 USD/h 0.638 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.1183 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.1233 USD/h 0.667 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.1234 USD/h 0.668 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.1242 USD/h 0.672 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.1301 USD/h 0.704 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.1301 USD/h 0.704 USD/h
India South Central (IN) / indiasouthcentral
0.1345 USD/h 0.728 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.1453 USD/h 0.786 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.146 USD/h 0.79 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.1497 USD/h 0.81 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.1557 USD/h 0.84 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.1691 USD/h 0.9148 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.1691 USD/h 0.915 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.1737 USD/h 0.94 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.2258 USD/h 1.222 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
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 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, 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
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    137 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 137 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 virtual machine offering a high RAM-to-vCPU ratio and local SSD storage for memory-intensive enterprise workloads.

    Microsoft Azure E8-4s_v3 is an x86_64 memory-optimized virtual machine from the ESv3 family, powered by an Intel Xeon 8272CL processor running at 2.6 GHz. It features 4 dedicated vCPUs across 2 physical cores, 64.0 GB of RAM, and 131 GB of local SSD storage. The instance is Premium Storage capable but does not include a GPU. Benchmark data indicates modest CPU performance, with single-core and multi-core processing capabilities scoring in the bottom 25%, while memory performance registers in the average tier. This hardware profile delivers high resource density, trading raw computational speed for a generous memory-to-vCPU ratio of 16 GB per core. The E8-4s_v3 is suited for memory-intensive workloads that do not require heavy CPU utilization, such as relational databases, caching layers, and enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.23Score
    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) 295,999 ops/sec 1,926,573 ops/sec 0.16 50.00% 50.00% -60.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,942,961 ops/sec 11,810,473 ops/sec 0.16 20.00% 20.00% -31.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,084 2,406 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 29,333 MB/sec 108,674 MB/sec 0.26 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,780 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,028

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,301

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 3,944
    Compression
    		 48,713
    Encryption
    		 1,508
    Extended Instructions
    		 3,382
    Floating Point Maths
    		 5,876
    Integer Maths
    		 10,955
    Physics
    		 517
    Prime Numbers
    		 25
    Single Threaded
    		 1,780
    String Sorting
    		 5,854

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,084
    Database Operations
    		 1,339
    Memory Latency
    		 53
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,454
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,967
    Memory Write
    		 8,897

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 237.54 248.17 1.04×
    bitops
    		 86,854 183,315 2.11×
    branch
    		 114,185 327,129 2.86×
    funccall
    		 377.42 741.44 1.96×
    funcret
    		 7,305 20,897 2.86×
    hash
    		 93,956 263,786 2.81×
    intmath
    		 15,395 43,940 2.85×
    nop
    		 129,337 221,176 1.71×
    prime
    		 222,898 471,942 2.12×
    rotate
    		 71,515 180,942 2.53×
    str
    		 487,575 1,050,210 2.15×
    wcs
    		 325,956 664,273 2.04×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 1,726 3,206 1.86×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 364.29 892.7 2.45×
    zlib
    		 40.25 154.65 3.84×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 13,193 33,748 2.56×
    clone
    		 904.88 1,949 2.15×
    context
    		 1,416 3,584 2.53×
    cpu-sched
    		 54.41 263.44 4.84×
    eventfd
    		 20,574 133,931 6.51×
    fault
    		 4,788 13,896 2.90×
    fork
    		 2,739 7,255 2.65×
    getrandom
    		 30,950 70,527 2.28×
    hrtimers
    		 169,820 318,891 1.88×
    mprotect
    		 405,239 429,581 1.06×
    mtx
    		 11,352,877 61,208,078 5.39×
    munmap
    		 1,730 4,681 2.71×
    null
    		 149,930 337,647 2.25×
    pipe
    		 622,173 887,583 1.43×
    priv-instr
    		 331,724 820,733 2.47×
    resched
    		 378,208 145,309 0.38×
    switch
    		 45,405 428,489 9.44×
    timermix
    		 144,462 421,396 2.92×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 5,493 6,148 1.12×
    tsc
    		 748,324 2,599,065 3.47×
    usersyscall
    		 224,961 537,662 2.39×
    vdso
    		 57,548,181 150,469,454 2.61×
    vfork
    		 13,249 39,709 3.00×
    x86syscall
    		 1,710,402 3,996,653 2.34×
    yield
    		 1,294,864 1,338,409 1.03×
    zero
    		 1,133,011 2,538,278 2.24×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 10,951 25,847 2.36×
    expmath
    		 1,872 5,310 2.84×
    fma
    		 432,567 1,305,349 3.02×
    fp
    		 95.51 222.97 2.33×
    fractal
    		 3.8 9.2 2.42×
    hyperbolic
    		 2,191 6,217 2.84×
    logmath
    		 3,359 9,420 2.80×
    matrix
    		 2,712 5,904 2.18×
    matrix-3d
    		 574.44 665.61 1.16×
    monte-carlo
    		 84.72 209.14 2.47×
    mpfr
    		 805.57 1,654 2.05×
    powmath
    		 1,160 3,136 2.70×
    trig
    		 1,357 2,836 2.09×
    veccmp
    		 9,744 19,915 2.04×
    vecfp
    		 629.68 1,565 2.49×
    vecmath
    		 1,583 4,612 2.91×
    vecshuf
    		 395.86 814.25 2.06×
    vecwide
    		 16,755 36,583 2.18×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 5.2 11.8 2.27×
    bsearch
    		 172.58 389.66 2.26×
    bubblesort
    		 0.4 0.8 2.00×
    fibsearch
    		 201.03 465.81 2.32×
    heapsort
    		 5.8 13 2.24×
    hsearch
    		 2,977 6,999 2.35×
    insertionsort
    		 6 11 1.83×
    malloc
    		 1,383,521 5,475,998 3.96×
    mcontend
    		 206.83 793.6 3.84×
    mergesort
    		 19.4 49.8 2.57×
    qsort
    		 13.2 31 2.35×
    skiplist
    		 4,229 10,920 2.58×
    tree
    		 1 2.4 2.40×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 164,214 221,610 1.35×
    cachehammer
    		 423,662 1,469,946 3.47×
    cacheline
    		 21.3 85.61 4.02×
    l1cache
    		 139.38 270.28 1.94×
    memcpy
    		 314.66 614.1 1.95×
    memrate
    		 0.97 2.28 2.35×
    memthrash
    		 27.82 120.6 4.34×
    ptr-chase
    		 19,283,343 44,115,835 2.29×
    spinmem
    		 142.59 68.18 0.48×
    stream
    		 24.25 204.33 8.43×
    vm
    		 51,611 203,662 3.95×

    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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