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 0.1165 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
2026-09-12T09:13:55.987513

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.163233 USD/h 0.42 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.231525 USD/h 0.42 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.1866 USD/h 0.478 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.210933 USD/h 0.478 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.17815 USD/h 0.511 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.2595 USD/h 0.516 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.204333 USD/h 0.529 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.2183 USD/h 0.529 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.1285 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
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
15 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
15 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    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

    An x86_64 compute-optimized instance featuring dedicated Intel Xeon cores, local NVMe SSD storage, and balanced multi-core performance for legacy workloads.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services c3.2xlarge is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 processor running at 2.8 GHz. It features 8 vCPUs, 4 physical cores, and 15.0 GB of memory, alongside a bundled 160 GB NVMe SSD and 1 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Operating on the Xen hypervisor, this instance exhibits a performance profile characterized by weak single-core capabilities but average multi-core and memory bandwidth performance. While tasks like software compilation, static web serving, and database operations perform at average levels, single-threaded compression and Redis operations show weaker results. The c3.2xlarge is qualitatively positioned as a legacy compute option suitable for multi-threaded workloads, software building, and web serving that benefit from local NVMe storage, though it is less efficient for modern, single-core intensive or large-scale LLM inference tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.29 50.00% 50.00% -46.10%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,368,000 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.203 20.00% 20.00% -27.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,065 2,418 0.854 10.00% 10.00% -1.57%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,369 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.494 10.00% 10.00% -6.81%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,836 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.776 10.00% 10.00% -2.50%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 717

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,782

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 7238
    Compression
    		 100783
    Encryption
    		 3086
    Extended Instructions
    		 3748
    Floating Point Maths
    		 12259
    Integer Maths
    		 22165
    Physics
    		 963
    Prime Numbers
    		 50
    Single Threaded
    		 1836
    String Sorting
    		 12370

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2065
    Database Operations
    		 2657
    Memory Latency
    		 55
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21878
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10756
    Memory Write
    		 9915

    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

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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    c3.large 24 GiB0
    c3.xlarge 48 GiB0
    c3.4xlarge 1630 GiB0
    c3.8xlarge 3260 GiB0

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