c3.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services

c3.2xlarge is a Compute optimized Gen3 2xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 8 vCPUs, 15 GiB of memory and 160 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1116 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
15 GiB Memory
160 GB Storage
Spare SCore
6,681
(All-cores)
1,281
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
c3.2xlarge
Description
Compute optimized Gen3 2xlarge
Family
c3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-27T10:43:53.471629

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.166467 USD/h 0.42 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.2087 USD/h 0.42 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.1843 USD/h 0.478 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.2195 USD/h 0.478 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.17755 USD/h 0.511 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.2151 USD/h 0.516 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.2007 USD/h 0.529 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.19895 USD/h 0.529 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.114 USD/h 0.65 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2680 v2
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
25 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
25 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, ht, syscall, nx, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, pti, fsgsbase, smep, erms, xsaveopt
Ecpus
5.2
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
15 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
15 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    160 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 80 GB nvme ssd
    • 80 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    1 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    10 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    1 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    1 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A compute-focused legacy virtual machine offering eight virtual cores, local NVMe SSD storage, and steady multi-threaded execution capabilities.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services c3.2xlarge is a compute-optimized instance driven by an Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 processor at 2.8 GHz on the x86_64 architecture. It offers 8 vCPUs, 15.0 GB of RAM, 160 GB of local NVMe SSD storage, and 1 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Benchmarks highlight average multi-core CPU performance, including a PassMark CPU score of 7237.82 and 6.84 GB/sec static web serving throughput, balanced against weak single-threaded capability and a Geekbench single-core score of 717.0. Hardware support includes AVX and AES, though modern vector extensions like AVX-512 are unavailable. The instance delivers local storage density suited for software build pipelines, static web hosting, and legacy database workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.35Score
    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) 556,848 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.29 50.00% 50.00% -46.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,368,000 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.2 20.00% 20.00% -28.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,065 2,416 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,369 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.48 10.00% 10.00% -7.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,836 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 717

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,782

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 7,238
    Compression
    		 100,783
    Encryption
    		 3,086
    Extended Instructions
    		 3,748
    Floating Point Maths
    		 12,259
    Integer Maths
    		 22,165
    Physics
    		 963
    Prime Numbers
    		 50
    Single Threaded
    		 1,836
    String Sorting
    		 12,370

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,065
    Database Operations
    		 2,657
    Memory Latency
    		 55
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,878
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,756
    Memory Write
    		 9,915

    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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    c3.8xlarge 3260 GiB0

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