ecs.i3.4xlarge by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.i3.4xlarge is a ecs.i3 family (16 vCPUs, 128 GiB RAM, 3839 GB ssd storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 3.84 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.1469 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
3.84 TB Storage
Spare SCore
14,015
(All-cores)
1,315
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.i3.4xlarge
Description
ecs.i3 family (16 vCPUs, 128 GiB RAM, 3839 GB ssd storage)
Family
ecs.i3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-06T14:31:55.404793

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ulanqab (CN) / cn-wulanchabu
- 1.1469 USD/h
Virginia (US) / us-east-1
- 1.263 USD/h
Beijing (CN) / cn-beijing
- 1.2744 USD/h
Chengdu (CN) / cn-chengdu
- 1.2744 USD/h
Guangzhou (CN) / cn-guangzhou
- 1.2744 USD/h
Hangzhou (CN) / cn-hangzhou
- 1.2744 USD/h
Shanghai (CN) / cn-shanghai
- 1.2744 USD/h
Shenzhen (CN) / cn-shenzhen
- 1.2744 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
- 1.487 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
- 1.511 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8269CY
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 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, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, arat, avx512_vnni
Ecpus
10.7
Scalability
66.88

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    3839 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      6 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A storage-heavy server featuring dedicated Intel processors, 128 GB RAM, and 3.8 TB of local SSD for database workloads.

      Storage & DatabaseMemory Optimized

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.i3.4xlarge is an x86_64 server featuring 16 dedicated vCPUs from an Intel Xeon 8269CY processor, 128.0 GB of RAM, and a bundled 3839 GB local SSD. Operating on a KVM hypervisor, it delivers a baseline network bandwidth of 6 Gbps. Performance benchmarks show a distinct tradeoff: single-core CPU execution and single-threaded gzip compression are weak, placing in the bottom 25%, while multi-core CPU, memory bandwidth, and database operations perform in the average tier. With a 1:8 vCPU-to-RAM ratio and significant local SSD capacity, this instance is optimized for storage-intensive and database workloads. It is highly suitable for database hosting, Redis caching, and static web serving, offering a balanced resource profile for data-heavy applications that do not require high single-threaded compute performance.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.8Score
      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) 1,456,864 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.79 50.00% 50.00% -11.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 8,737,002 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.72 20.00% 20.00% -6.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,506 2,417 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 93,378 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.85 10.00% 10.00% -1.60%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,973 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,184

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 7,286

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 15441
      Compression
      		 215825
      Encryption
      		 6492
      Extended Instructions
      		 13226
      Floating Point Maths
      		 25144
      Integer Maths
      		 46834
      Physics
      		 1604
      Prime Numbers
      		 92
      Single Threaded
      		 1973
      String Sorting
      		 28608

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2506
      Database Operations
      		 5626
      Memory Latency
      		 53
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22795
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9866
      Memory Write
      		 9593

      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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