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d3.8xlarge by Amazon Web Services

d3.8xlarge is a Dense storage Gen3 8xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 47.5 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.4189 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
47.5 TB Storage
Spare SCore
27102
(All-cores)
1286
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
d3.8xlarge
Description
Dense storage Gen3 8xlarge
Family
d3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-21T22:13:14.051785

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.962967 USD/h 3.9955 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.13735 USD/h 3.9955 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.531225 USD/h 3.9955 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.447833 USD/h 4.189 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.9629 USD/h 4.4011 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.107833 USD/h 4.8745 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.787533 USD/h 5.0081 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.152233 USD/h 5.0081 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.886467 USD/h 5.1182 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.89085 USD/h 5.1182 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
1.148967 USD/h 5.1182 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.780333 USD/h 5.2645 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
1.798967 USD/h 5.791 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
2.4323 USD/h 5.7934 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 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
21.1
Scalability
131.88

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2933 Mhz
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    47520 GB
    Storage Type
    hdd
    Storages
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    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    25 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    25 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    5 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    5 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A high-density storage instance featuring thirty-two virtual cores, DDR4 memory, and over forty-seven terabytes of local HDD capacity.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services d3.8xlarge is a dense storage instance built on the AWS Nitro System, featuring an Intel Xeon 8259CL x86_64 processor with 32 vCPUs and 256.0 GB of DDR4 memory. It includes a massive 47,520 GB of bundled local HDD storage and a baseline network bandwidth of 25 Gbps. Performance benchmarks show average multi-core CPU capabilities and memory bandwidth, contrasted by weak single-core performance. This hardware profile makes the d3.8xlarge highly suitable for storage-intensive workloads such as distributed file systems, data warehousing, and big data analytics. Its qualitative cost efficiency lies in its high storage density per virtual core, though users must trade off single-threaded processing speed for this high-capacity local HDD storage.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.28Score
    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) 2,751,436 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.45 50.00% 50.00% +20.40%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 15,910,175 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.38 20.00% 20.00% +6.65%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,570 2,411 1.07 10.00% 10.00% +0.68%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 119,616 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.11 10.00% 10.00% +1.05%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,880 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.795 10.00% 10.00% -2.27%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,088

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,833

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		26264
    Compression
    		406396
    Encryption
    		12870
    Extended Instructions
    		25553
    Floating Point Maths
    		50248
    Integer Maths
    		93836
    Physics
    		2398
    Prime Numbers
    		134
    Single Threaded
    		1880
    String Sorting
    		48201

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2570
    Database Operations
    		10878
    Memory Latency
    		54
    Memory Read Cached
    		22838
    Memory Read Uncached
    		10060
    Memory Write
    		9987

    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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