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.
4 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
16 GB Storage
Spare SCore
4,101
(All-cores)
980
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F4s
Name
F4s
API Reference
Standard_F4s
Description
FS family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
FS
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-28T23:37:32.095966

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0444 USD/h 0.198 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.198 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.198 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0447 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0447 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0448 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0463 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0979 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0453 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0458 USD/h 0.204 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0458 USD/h 0.204 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0804 USD/h 0.207 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0467 USD/h 0.208 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0467 USD/h 0.208 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0489 USD/h 0.218 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0404 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0491 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0491 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0491 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0491 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0507 USD/h 0.226 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0512 USD/h 0.228 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0512 USD/h 0.228 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.052 USD/h 0.231 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0532 USD/h 0.237 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0536 USD/h 0.239 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0536 USD/h 0.239 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0538 USD/h 0.239 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0543 USD/h 0.242 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0559 USD/h 0.249 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0561 USD/h 0.2497 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0561 USD/h 0.25 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0566 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0566 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.026 USD/h 0.26 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0583 USD/h 0.26 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0583 USD/h 0.26 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0583 USD/h 0.26 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0588 USD/h 0.262 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0599 USD/h 0.267 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0615 USD/h 0.274 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0624 USD/h 0.278 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0644 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0649 USD/h 0.289 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0662 USD/h 0.295 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0665 USD/h 0.296 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0728 USD/h 0.3244 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0729 USD/h 0.325 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0752 USD/h 0.334 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0837 USD/h 0.373 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
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, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, md_clear
Ecpus
4.2
Scalability
105

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    16 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 16 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    An entry-level, dedicated-core compute instance with balanced cache performance for light database operations and caching workloads.

    Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure F4s is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance from the FS family, featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs on an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processor clocked at 2.3 GHz. It is configured with 8.0 GB of RAM and 16 GB of Premium Storage-capable local storage, running on Microsoft Hyper-V. Benchmark results place its raw compute performance in the lower tiers, with stress-ng single-core and multi-core scores in the bottom 10% and 25% respectively. However, it maintains average performance in memory bandwidth for small cached blocks and Redis SET operations. This instance presents an entry-level, dedicated-core option for workloads with low memory requirements, making it suitable for light database operations, basic web serving, and caching.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.34Score
    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) 516,270 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.27 50.00% 50.00% -48.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,462,272 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.29 20.00% 20.00% -22.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,310 2,416 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 43,814 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.4 10.00% 10.00% -8.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,738 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,030

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,371

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 5,722
    Compression
    		 64,224
    Encryption
    		 1,829
    Extended Instructions
    		 5,569
    Floating Point Maths
    		 12,329
    Integer Maths
    		 14,979
    Physics
    		 807
    Prime Numbers
    		 48
    Single Threaded
    		 1,738
    String Sorting
    		 8,921

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,310
    Database Operations
    		 3,184
    Memory Latency
    		 55
    Memory Read Cached
    		 17,461
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,381
    Memory Write
    		 9,746

    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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