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 0.5008 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
47.5 TB Storage
Spare SCore
27,102
(All-cores)
1,286
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
d3.8xlarge
Description
Dense storage Gen3 8xlarge
Family
d3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-24T18:44:21.565490

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.8103 USD/h 3.9955 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.045025 USD/h 3.9955 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.3461 USD/h 3.9955 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.7124 USD/h 4.189 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.7877 USD/h 4.4011 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.170733 USD/h 4.8745 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.018333 USD/h 5.0081 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.328533 USD/h 5.0081 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.7362 USD/h 5.1182 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.865467 USD/h 5.1182 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
1.2073 USD/h 5.1182 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.3042 USD/h 5.2645 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
1.266033 USD/h 5.791 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.81955 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
65.94

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 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
    47520 GB
    Storage Type
    hdd
    Storages
    • 1980 GB hdd
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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

    1.3Score
    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 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.5 50.00% 50.00% +22.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 15,910,175 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.3 20.00% 20.00% +5.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,570 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 119,616 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,880 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,088

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,833

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 26,264
    Compression
    		 406,396
    Encryption
    		 12,870
    Extended Instructions
    		 25,553
    Floating Point Maths
    		 50,248
    Integer Maths
    		 93,836
    Physics
    		 2,398
    Prime Numbers
    		 134
    Single Threaded
    		 1,880
    String Sorting
    		 48,201

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,570
    Database Operations
    		 10,878
    Memory Latency
    		 54
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22,838
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,060
    Memory Write
    		 9,987

    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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