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h1.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services

h1.2xlarge is a Cost-effective storage optimized with HDD Gen1 2xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 2 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.083 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
2 TB Storage
Spare SCore
4177
(All-cores)
883
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
h1.2xlarge
Description
Cost-effective storage optimized with HDD Gen1 2xlarge
Family
h1
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-03T10:09:54.898878

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.129233 USD/h 0.468 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.2125 USD/h 0.468 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.17835 USD/h 0.468 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.49905 USD/h 0.519 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2686 v4
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
45 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
45 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, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, 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, cpuid_fault, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rdseed, adx, xsaveopt
Ecpus
4.7
Scalability
117.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    2000 GB
    Storage Type
    hdd
    Storages
    • 2000 GB hdd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    2.5 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    10 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    1.75 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    1.75 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A storage-optimized instance featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and high-capacity local HDD storage for sequential data workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services h1.2xlarge is an x86_64 storage-optimized server instance powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processor running at 2.3 GHz. It features 8 vCPUs, 4 physical cores, 32.0 GB of RAM, and a bundled 2000 GB HDD for local storage. Operating under the Xen hypervisor, it provides a baseline network bandwidth of 2 Gbps. Performance benchmarks place this instance in the lower tier for compute and memory bandwidth, with stress-ng single-core and Geekbench single-core scores in the bottom 10%. However, its PassMark memory score remains average. The h1.2xlarge offers a cost-effective profile for workloads requiring high-capacity local HDD storage rather than intensive compute power. It is best suited for sequential storage tasks, log processing, and data warehousing applications that do not require high random I/O performance.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.299Score
    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) 467,072 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.244 50.00% 50.00% -50.60%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,051,252 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.177 20.00% 20.00% -29.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,968 2,416 0.815 10.00% 10.00% -2.02%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 38,874 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.36 10.00% 10.00% -9.71%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,675 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.708 10.00% 10.00% -3.39%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 904

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,371

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 6218
    Compression
    		 84437
    Encryption
    		 1887
    Extended Instructions
    		 4272
    Floating Point Maths
    		 11017
    Integer Maths
    		 19144
    Physics
    		 837
    Prime Numbers
    		 53
    Single Threaded
    		 1675
    String Sorting
    		 12847

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1968
    Database Operations
    		 2391
    Memory Latency
    		 60
    Memory Read Cached
    		 19633
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8860
    Memory Write
    		 6655

    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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