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GS4-4 by Microsoft Azure

GS4-4 is a GS family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 224 GiB of memory and 459 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6494 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
224 GiB Memory
459 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2028
(All-cores)
491
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_GS4-4
Name
GS4-4
API Reference
Standard_GS4-4
Description
GS family [Intel processor] 16 vCPUs
Family
GS
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
39
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-08T04:20:57.058639

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.6494 USD/h 3.514 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.7155 USD/h 3.872 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
1.4822 USD/h 3.872 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.7248 USD/h 3.922 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
1.5118 USD/h 4.4 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.8505 USD/h 4.602 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.9018 USD/h 4.88 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.9437 USD/h 5.104 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.9757 USD/h 5.28 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
1.0349 USD/h 5.6 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2698B v3
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
5 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
48 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, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, xsaveopt, md_clear
Ecpus
4.1
Scalability
102.5

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An x86 virtual machine offering high memory density and local storage for memory-bound workloads with modest compute requirements.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Microsoft Azure GS4-4 is a memory-optimized virtual machine instance running on Microsoft Hyper-V. It features an Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3 processor with 4 dedicated physical cores and 4 vCPUs running at 2.0 GHz. A key characteristic of this instance is its high memory density, providing 224.0 GB of RAM (56.0 GB per core) alongside 459 GB of local storage, with no GPU acceleration. Performance benchmarks indicate modest compute capabilities, with stress-ng and Geekbench scores falling in the bottom 10% to 25% ranges, while PassMark memory performance remains average. Given the high memory-to-vCPU ratio and older CPU architecture, the GS4-4 is qualitatively cost-effective for memory-bound, low-compute workloads. It is best suited for legacy database hosting, in-memory caching, and enterprise applications requiring a large memory footprint without intensive parallel processing requirements.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.307Score
    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) 413,371 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.216 50.00% 50.00% -53.50%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,059,970 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.264 20.00% 20.00% -23.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,989 2,416 0.823 10.00% 10.00% -1.93%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,612 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.339 10.00% 10.00% -10.30%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,922 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.813 10.00% 10.00% -2.05%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,083

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,239

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 4978
    Compression
    		 69194
    Encryption
    		 1267
    Extended Instructions
    		 4261
    Floating Point Maths
    		 10301
    Integer Maths
    		 13746
    Physics
    		 709
    Prime Numbers
    		 50
    Single Threaded
    		 1922
    String Sorting
    		 9718

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1989
    Database Operations
    		 2424
    Memory Latency
    		 65
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21113
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8945
    Memory Write
    		 7836

    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
    GS1 228 GiB0
    GS2 456 GiB0
    GS3 8112 GiB0
    GS4-8 8224 GiB0
    GS5-8 8448 GiB0
    GS4 16224 GiB0
    GS5-16 16448 GiB0

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