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F4s_v2 by Microsoft Azure

F4s_v2 is a FSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 33 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0222 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
33 GB Storage
Spare SCore
3661
(All-cores)
1409
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F4s_v2
Name
F4s_v2
API Reference
Standard_F4s_v2
Description
FSv2 family [Premium Storage capable] [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
FSv2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
20.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-22T06:21:31.788381

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0312 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0372 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0514 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0889 USD/h 0.169 USD/h
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0314 USD/h 0.17 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0314 USD/h 0.17 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0314 USD/h 0.17 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0315 USD/h 0.17 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.17 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.17 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0325 USD/h 0.176 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0325 USD/h 0.176 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0342 USD/h 0.185 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0737 USD/h 0.185 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0344 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0346 USD/h 0.187 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0355 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0355 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0355 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0508 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0359 USD/h 0.194 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0359 USD/h 0.194 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0359 USD/h 0.194 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0359 USD/h 0.194 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0359 USD/h 0.194 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0359 USD/h 0.194 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.036 USD/h 0.194 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0362 USD/h 0.196 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0279 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0373 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0373 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0373 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0371 USD/h 0.204 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0377 USD/h 0.204 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0377 USD/h 0.204 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.039 USD/h 0.211 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.039 USD/h 0.211 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0392 USD/h 0.212 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0394 USD/h 0.2134 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0395 USD/h 0.214 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0395 USD/h 0.214 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0399 USD/h 0.216 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0222 USD/h 0.222 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.041 USD/h 0.222 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.041 USD/h 0.222 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0412 USD/h 0.223 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0421 USD/h 0.228 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0431 USD/h 0.233 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0436 USD/h 0.235 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0438 USD/h 0.237 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0466 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0466 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0484 USD/h 0.262 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0484 USD/h 0.262 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0513 USD/h 0.2775 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0584 USD/h 0.316 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.063 USD/h 0.341 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, 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
130

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A dedicated compute-optimized virtual machine featuring a balanced entry-level CPU profile and low memory overhead for targeted workloads.

    Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure F4s_v2 is a compute-optimized virtual machine from the FSv2 family, powered by a dedicated Intel Xeon 8272CL processor. It provides 4 vCPUs (2 physical cores with hyper-threading) running at 2.6 GHz, paired with 8.0 GB of system memory and 33 GB of local storage. The instance supports Premium Storage but does not include integrated GPUs. Benchmark data shows average single-core performance, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1144.0, but weaker multi-core and memory bandwidth results, such as a multi-core Geekbench score of 2517.0 and uncached read speeds of 25.4 GB/sec. This hardware profile is best suited for compute-focused workloads with low memory requirements, such as light web serving, single-threaded batch processing, and basic utility scripting, offering a dedicated CPU allocation without the cost of excess memory.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.239Score
    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) 330,836 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.174 50.00% 50.00% -58.30%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,113,862 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.183 20.00% 20.00% -28.80%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,021 2,411 0.423 10.00% 10.00% -8.24%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 33,872 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.315 10.00% 10.00% -10.90%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,014 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.852 10.00% 10.00% -1.59%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,144

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,517

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		4428
    Compression
    		55541
    Encryption
    		1710
    Extended Instructions
    		3517
    Floating Point Maths
    		6671
    Integer Maths
    		12452
    Physics
    		548
    Prime Numbers
    		28
    Single Threaded
    		2014
    String Sorting
    		6664

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		1021
    Database Operations
    		1361
    Memory Latency
    		59
    Memory Read Cached
    		23971
    Memory Read Uncached
    		10418
    Memory Write
    		9490

    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
    F2s_v2 24 GiB0
    F8s_v2 816 GiB0
    F16s_v2 1632 GiB0
    F32s_v2 3264 GiB0
    F48s_v2 4896 GiB0
    F64s_v2 64128 GiB0
    F72s_v2 72144 GiB0

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