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d3.xlarge by Amazon Web Services

d3.xlarge is a Dense storage Gen3 xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 5.94 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0682 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
5.94 TB Storage
Spare SCore
3488
(All-cores)
1324
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
d3.xlarge
Description
Dense storage Gen3 xlarge
Family
d3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-21T01:33:20.926305

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.1477 USD/h 0.499 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.144125 USD/h 0.499 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.190475 USD/h 0.499 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.090367 USD/h 0.524 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.144467 USD/h 0.55 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.183367 USD/h 0.609 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.192867 USD/h 0.626 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.1763 USD/h 0.626 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.1186 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.1417 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.202633 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.201 USD/h 0.658 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.1277 USD/h 0.724 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.150533 USD/h 0.724 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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
2.6
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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
    5940 GB
    Storage Type
    hdd
    Storages
    • 1980 GB hdd
    • 1980 GB hdd
    • 1980 GB hdd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    3 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    15 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    0.85 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 featuring massive local HDD capacity and balanced memory for large-scale data retention and sequential workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services d3.xlarge is a dense storage instance featuring 5940 GB of local HDD storage, 4 vCPUs, and 32.0 GB of DDR4 memory. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8259CL processor running at 3.1 GHz on the Nitro hypervisor, this x86_64 instance is designed for high-capacity storage workloads. Benchmark results show weak compute and memory bandwidth performance, with stress-ng and multi-core Geekbench scores falling in the bottom 25%. However, it maintains average single-core Geekbench and PassMark memory performance. The d3.xlarge offers qualitative cost efficiency for massive data retention and sequential access workloads, trading off high-speed compute for dense, bundled local storage. It is best suited for distributed file systems, data warehousing, and log processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.266Score
    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) 350,647 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.185 50.00% 50.00% -57.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,163,817 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.188 20.00% 20.00% -28.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,127 2,411 0.882 10.00% 10.00% -1.25%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,701 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.342 10.00% 10.00% -10.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,860 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.787 10.00% 10.00% -2.37%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,124

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,464

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		4112
    Compression
    		51975
    Encryption
    		1604
    Extended Instructions
    		3104
    Floating Point Maths
    		6250
    Integer Maths
    		11637
    Physics
    		538
    Prime Numbers
    		25
    Single Threaded
    		1860
    String Sorting
    		6187

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		2127
    Database Operations
    		1400
    Memory Latency
    		54
    Memory Read Cached
    		22725
    Memory Read Uncached
    		10832
    Memory Write
    		9702

    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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