d3.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services

d3.2xlarge is a Dense storage Gen3 2xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 11.9 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1478 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
11.9 TB Storage
Spare SCore
6,744
(All-cores)
1,285
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
d3.2xlarge
Description
Dense storage Gen3 2xlarge
Family
d3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-24T15:23:51.938746

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.157567 USD/h 0.999 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.37465 USD/h 0.999 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.339825 USD/h 0.999 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.226433 USD/h 1.047 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.2804 USD/h 1.1 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.4985 USD/h 1.219 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.340333 USD/h 1.252 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.3339 USD/h 1.252 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.24425 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.2368 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.4061 USD/h 1.28 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.47 USD/h 1.316 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.327467 USD/h 1.448 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.308967 USD/h 1.448 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
3.1 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8259CL
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
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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, aperfmperf, 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, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, ida, arat, pku, ospke
Ecpus
5.3
Scalability
66.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2933 Mhz
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    11880 GB
    Storage Type
    hdd
    Storages
    • 1980 GB hdd
    • 1980 GB hdd
    • 1980 GB hdd
    • 1980 GB hdd
    • 1980 GB hdd
    • 1980 GB hdd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    6 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    15 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    1.7 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    2.8 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A dense storage instance combining massive local HDD capacity with balanced multi-core performance for data-intensive and distributed file system workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services d3.2xlarge is a dense storage instance designed for data-intensive workloads. Powered by the Nitro hypervisor, it features an Intel Xeon 8259CL x86_64 processor with 8 vCPUs, 4 physical cores, and 64.0 GB of DDR4 memory. The standout hardware specification is its 11,880 GB of local HDD storage, supported by a 6 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Performance benchmarks show a tradeoff: single-core CPU capabilities are weak, placing in the bottom 25%, while multi-core performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations achieve average marks. This hardware profile makes the d3.2xlarge highly cost-efficient for sequential storage-heavy applications rather than compute-intensive tasks. It is best suited for distributed file systems, big data analytics, and large-scale data warehousing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.45Score
    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) 699,965 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.37 50.00% 50.00% -39.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,393,593 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.37 20.00% 20.00% -18.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,332 2,416 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 55,022 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.5 10.00% 10.00% -6.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,868 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,117

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 4,297

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 7,915
    Compression
    		 103,837
    Encryption
    		 3,212
    Extended Instructions
    		 6,213
    Floating Point Maths
    		 12,525
    Integer Maths
    		 23,363
    Physics
    		 890
    Prime Numbers
    		 45
    Single Threaded
    		 1,868
    String Sorting
    		 12,438

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,332
    Database Operations
    		 2,774
    Memory Latency
    		 55
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22,841
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,943
    Memory Write
    		 9,722

    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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