d2.xlarge by Amazon Web Services

d2.xlarge is a Dense storage Gen2 xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 4 vCPUs, 31 GiB of memory and 6.14 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.069 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
31 GiB Memory
6.14 TB Storage
Spare SCore
2,078
(All-cores)
738
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
d2.xlarge
Description
Dense storage Gen2 xlarge
Family
d2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-20T19:32:05.184834

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.074133 USD/h 0.69 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.1434 USD/h 0.69 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.1095 USD/h 0.69 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.0698 USD/h 0.698 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.210433 USD/h 0.735 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.15155 USD/h 0.759 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.099567 USD/h 0.772 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.105433 USD/h 0.772 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.167533 USD/h 0.772 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.10895 USD/h 0.781 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.151433 USD/h 0.794 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.088867 USD/h 0.827 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.0844 USD/h 0.844 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.148033 USD/h 0.844 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
- 0.844 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.139933 USD/h 0.87 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.152967 USD/h 0.87 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.145467 USD/h 0.875 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.133 USD/h 0.957 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
30 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
30 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, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, 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
Ecpus
2.8
Scalability
140

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
31 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
31 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    6144 GB
    Storage Type
    hdd
    Storages
    • 2048 GB hdd
    • 2048 GB hdd
    • 2048 GB hdd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    1.25 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    2.8 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    0.75 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    0.75 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A dense storage instance featuring massive local HDD capacity and moderate memory for storage-intensive data workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services d2.xlarge is a dense storage instance designed for workloads requiring significant local storage capacity. Powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 processor, this x86_64 system features 4 vCPUs, 2 physical cores, and 30.0 GB of system memory. It includes 6144 GB of local HDD storage and a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps. Performance benchmarks indicate that the instance has limited computational capabilities, with CPU and memory bandwidth tests generally scoring in the bottom 10% to 25% of systems. However, its PassMark memory score achieves an average rating. The d2.xlarge is qualitatively cost-efficient for storage-dense applications where massive local capacity is required but high CPU performance is not critical. It is best suited for data warehousing, log analysis, and large-scale file systems.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.166Score
    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) 212,444 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.111 50.00% 50.00% -66.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,001,007 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.0853 20.00% 20.00% -38.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,916 2,418 0.792 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 27,530 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.254 10.00% 10.00% -12.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,585 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.93%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 890

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,880

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 3068
    Compression
    		 42825
    Encryption
    		 923
    Extended Instructions
    		 2069
    Floating Point Maths
    		 4473
    Integer Maths
    		 9537
    Physics
    		 452
    Prime Numbers
    		 27
    Single Threaded
    		 1585
    String Sorting
    		 6463

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1916
    Database Operations
    		 1226
    Memory Latency
    		 53
    Memory Read Cached
    		 19430
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8560
    Memory Write
    		 8206

    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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    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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    d2.4xlarge 16122 GiB0
    d2.8xlarge 36244 GiB0

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