d3en.6xlarge by Amazon Web Services

d3en.6xlarge is a Dense storage [Network and EBS optimized] [Extra storage or memory] Gen3 6xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 24 vCPUs, 96 GiB of memory and 168 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3954 USD per hour.
24 vCPU
96 GiB Memory
168 TB Storage
Spare SCore
20,994
(All-cores)
1,327
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
d3en.6xlarge
Description
Dense storage [Network and EBS optimized] [Extra storage or memory] Gen3 6xlarge
Family
d3en
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-23T15:04:47.223148

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.9182 USD/h 3.154 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.80605 USD/h 3.154 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.955467 USD/h 3.848 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.3954 USD/h 3.954 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.870733 USD/h 3.954 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.7709 USD/h 3.954 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.886333 USD/h 4.156 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.82105 USD/h 4.574 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
24
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
12
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
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
12 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
15.8
Scalability
65.83

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
96 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
96 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
    167760 GB
    Storage Type
    hdd
    Storages
    • 13980 GB hdd
    • 13980 GB hdd
    • 13980 GB hdd
    • 13980 GB hdd
    • 13980 GB hdd
    • 13980 GB hdd
    • 13980 GB hdd
    • 13980 GB hdd
    • 13980 GB hdd
    • 13980 GB hdd
    • 13980 GB hdd
    • 13980 GB hdd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    40 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    40 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    4 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    4 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 average multi-core performance and high baseline network bandwidth.

    Storage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services d3en.6xlarge is a dense storage instance featuring 24 vCPUs from an Intel Xeon 8259CL processor, 96.0 GB of DDR4 memory, and an extensive 167,760 GB of local HDD storage. Operating on the AWS Nitro hypervisor, it provides a baseline network bandwidth of 40 Gbps. Benchmark results indicate weak single-core CPU performance, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1056.0, but average multi-core and memory bandwidth capabilities, including a multi-core Geekbench score of 8267.0. This hardware profile is qualitatively cost-efficient for storage-heavy applications that prioritize capacity over high-speed SSD IOPS. It is suited for distributed file systems, data lakes, and large-scale log processing.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1Score
    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) 2,112,224 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.1 50.00% 50.00% +4.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 12,719,753 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.1 20.00% 20.00% +1.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,483 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 114,762 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,806 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,056

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,267

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 20,040
    Compression
    		 297,615
    Encryption
    		 9,333
    Extended Instructions
    		 18,453
    Floating Point Maths
    		 36,447
    Integer Maths
    		 67,922
    Physics
    		 1,867
    Prime Numbers
    		 98
    Single Threaded
    		 1,806
    String Sorting
    		 34,423

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,483
    Database Operations
    		 7,754
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,929
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,513
    Memory Write
    		 10,017

    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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