F4s by Microsoft Azure

F4s is a FS family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 16 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.026 USD per hour.

The F4s server is equipped with 4 logical CPU cores on 4 Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 physical CPU cores, 8 GiB of memory, 16 GB of storage, and no GPU. Additional block storage can be attached as needed.

We have run 53 frameworks on the F4s server, and collected 452 performance metrics. Depending on your use case, you might want to look at our Memory bandwidth, Compression algo, or OpenSSL speed benchmarks, among others. As a baseline example, the multi-core Geekbench6 compound score suggests that the F4s server is 1.3484x faster than the baseline Dell Precision 3460 with a Core i7-12700 processor.

The pricing for F4s servers starts at 0.026 USD per hour, but the actual price depends on the selected region, zone and server allocation method (e.g. on-demand versus spot pricing options): currently, we track the prices in 256 regions and zones every 5 minutes, and the maximum price stands at 0.373 USD.

The F4s server is offered by Microsoft Azure, founded in 2008, headquartered in Washington, United States. For more information, visit the Microsoft Azure homepage.

The F4s server is available in 256 availability zones of the following 55 regions: Australia Central 2 (AU), Central India (IN), North Central US (US), West US 3 (US), France Central (FR), Korea Central (KR), Korea South (KR), West US 2 (US), UK South (GB), Italy North (IT), Sweden Central (SE), West Europe (NL), Poland Central (PL), Southeast Asia (SG), Indonesia Central (ID), Malaysia West (MY), Mexico Central (ZA), Israel Central (IL), UAE North (AE), South India (IN), Canada East (CA), Central US (US), South Central US (US), West Central US (US), West India (IN), Switzerland North (CH), Japan West (JP), Germany West Central (DE), Spain Central (ES), Australia Central (AU), East US (US), France South (FR), UK West (GB), Qatar Central (QA), Norway East (NO), Japan East (JP), East Asia (HK), Australia East (AU), New Zealand North (NZ), Germany North (DE), South Africa North (ZA), Chile Central (CL), Canada Central (CA), North Europe (IE), UAE Central (AE), East US 2 (US), South Africa West (ZA), Australia Southeast (AU), Switzerland West (CH), Norway West (NO), Brazil South (BR), Brazil Southeast (US), West US (US), Jio India Central (IN), Jio India West (IN).

Yes! In addition to the F4s server, the FS server family includes 4 other sizes: F1s (azure), F2s (azure), F8s (azure), F16s (azure).

Looking at the number of GPU, vCPUs, and memory amount, the following top 10 servers come with similar specs: cx32 (hcloud), c2d-highcpu-4 (gcp), c3-highcpu-4 (gcp), c3d-highcpu-4 (gcp), n4-highcpu-4 (gcp), c4-highcpu-4 (gcp), c4a-highcpu-4 (gcp).