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 0.0673 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
5.94 TB Storage
Spare SCore
3,488
(All-cores)
1,324
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
d3.xlarge
Description
Dense storage Gen3 xlarge
Family
d3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-19T06:19:35.053320

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.113733 USD/h 0.499 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.131825 USD/h 0.499 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.209775 USD/h 0.499 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.108833 USD/h 0.524 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.135233 USD/h 0.55 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.1859 USD/h 0.609 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.1903 USD/h 0.626 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.132267 USD/h 0.626 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.1042 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.166767 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.1435 USD/h 0.64 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.1682 USD/h 0.658 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.134367 USD/h 0.724 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.162467 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 offering massive local HDD capacity and balanced memory for sequential data processing and distributed file systems.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory Optimized

    Amazon Web Services d3.xlarge is a dense storage instance utilizing the AWS Nitro hypervisor and an x86_64 Intel Xeon 8259CL processor. It features 4 dedicated vCPUs, 32.0 GB of DDR4 memory, and a baseline network bandwidth of 3 Gbps. The defining characteristic of this instance is its 5940 GB of local HDD storage, designed for high-capacity sequential data access. Benchmark data reveals a significant tradeoff, with CPU and memory bandwidth performance scoring in the bottom 25%, including a stress-ng multi-core score of 3488.06 and a Geekbench multi-core score of 2464.0. Consequently, this instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for storage-heavy workloads rather than compute-intensive tasks. It is best suited for distributed file systems, data warehousing, and large-scale data lakes where massive local storage capacity is required.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.264Score
    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 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.183 50.00% 50.00% -57.20%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,163,817 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.184 20.00% 20.00% -28.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,127 2,418 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.27%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,701 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.339 10.00% 10.00% -10.30%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,860 Mops/s 2,365 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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