d2.8xlarge by Amazon Web Services

d2.8xlarge is a Dense storage Gen2 8xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 36 vCPUs, 244 GiB of memory and 49.2 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.552 USD per hour.
36 vCPU
244 GiB Memory
49.2 TB Storage
Spare SCore
18,722
(All-cores)
741
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
d2.8xlarge
Description
Dense storage Gen2 8xlarge
Family
d2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-15T17:33:35.331216

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.657867 USD/h 5.52 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.022475 USD/h 5.52 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
2.0717 USD/h 5.52 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.5584 USD/h 5.584 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.434033 USD/h 5.88 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
1.20045 USD/h 6.072 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.796333 USD/h 6.174 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.9529 USD/h 6.176 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.902667 USD/h 6.176 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.91455 USD/h 6.25 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.2231 USD/h 6.352 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.799067 USD/h 6.612 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.7173 USD/h 6.752 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
1.240767 USD/h 6.752 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
- 6.752 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.271467 USD/h 6.96 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
2.227333 USD/h 6.96 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
1.6169 USD/h 7 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
1.125467 USD/h 7.656 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
36
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
18
CPU Speed
2.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2676 v3
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
576 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
576 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
5 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
30 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
60 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, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, est, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, cpuid_fault, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, xsaveopt, ida
Ecpus
25.3
Scalability
140.56

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
244 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
244 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    49152 GB
    Storage Type
    hdd
    Storages
    • 2048 GB hdd
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    • 2048 GB hdd
    • 2048 GB hdd
    • 2048 GB hdd
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    • 2048 GB hdd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    10 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    10 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    4 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    4 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A dense storage server combining massive local HDD capacity with balanced multi-core processing for sequential data workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services d2.8xlarge is a dense storage server configured with 36 vCPUs, 18 physical Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 cores, and 244.0 GB of RAM. It features a massive 49,152 GB of local HDD storage and a 10 Gbps baseline network speed. Performance benchmarks reveal a significant contrast between single-core and multi-core execution: single-core metrics in stress-ng and Geekbench fall in the bottom 10%, whereas multi-core and memory bandwidth tests achieve average tier results. This hardware profile provides high storage density at a qualitative resource-to-capacity tradeoff, omitting high-speed SSDs in favor of massive HDD volume. The server is designed for storage-intensive workloads such as data warehousing, MapReduce logging, and large-scale sequential database operations.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.06Score
    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) 2,163,700 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 1.13 50.00% 50.00% +6.30%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 14,154,323 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 1.21 20.00% 20.00% +3.89%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,466 2,418 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 90,775 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.839 10.00% 10.00% -1.74%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,879 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.795 10.00% 10.00% -2.27%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 902

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,844

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 28311
    Compression
    		 443752
    Encryption
    		 13600
    Extended Instructions
    		 24889
    Floating Point Maths
    		 61156
    Integer Maths
    		 98828
    Physics
    		 3261
    Prime Numbers
    		 165
    Single Threaded
    		 1879
    String Sorting
    		 52061

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2466
    Database Operations
    		 11668
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21850
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9530
    Memory Write
    		 9238

    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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