h1.8xlarge by Amazon Web Services

h1.8xlarge is a Cost-effective storage optimized with HDD Gen1 8xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 32 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 8 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.5414 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
8 TB Storage
Spare SCore
16,280
(All-cores)
865
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
h1.8xlarge
Description
Cost-effective storage optimized with HDD Gen1 8xlarge
Family
h1
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-28T23:25:16.796893

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.557133 USD/h 1.872 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.8114 USD/h 1.872 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.75535 USD/h 1.872 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.86545 USD/h 2.076 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, est, 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, ida
Ecpus
18.8
Scalability
58.75

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    8000 GB
    Storage Type
    hdd
    Storages
    • 2000 GB hdd
    • 2000 GB hdd
    • 2000 GB hdd
    • 2000 GB hdd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    12 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    12 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    7 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    7 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A storage-dense x86 cloud instance featuring 32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, and 8 TB of local HDD capacity for big data analytics.

    Storage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services h1.8xlarge is a storage-optimized server configuration designed for data-intensive processing tasks. Powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processor operating at 2.3 GHz on the x86_64 architecture, it delivers 32 vCPUs across 16 physical cores alongside 128 GB of memory. The instance features 8,000 GB of direct-attached local HDD storage and 12 Gbps of baseline network bandwidth on the Xen hypervisor. Performance evaluations reveal solid multi-core compute capabilities, such as a multi-threaded stress-ng score of 16279.61 and 19.97 million Redis SET operations per second, though single-threaded performance remains lower. With its large local storage capacity and balanced memory profile, the h1.8xlarge provides economical resource density for bulk data processing, log analytics, distributed file systems, and batch data lake workloads that benefit from high sequential storage access rather than high random IOPS performance.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.95Score
    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) 2,085,573 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.1 50.00% 50.00% +4.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 12,524,513 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.1 20.00% 20.00% +1.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,965 2,416 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,303 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.48 10.00% 10.00% -7.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,888 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 889

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,383

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 28,705
    Compression
    		 427,881
    Encryption
    		 13,701
    Extended Instructions
    		 22,373
    Floating Point Maths
    		 65,661
    Integer Maths
    		 109,291
    Physics
    		 3,000
    Prime Numbers
    		 163
    Single Threaded
    		 1,888
    String Sorting
    		 58,691

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,965
    Database Operations
    		 11,445
    Memory Latency
    		 80
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18,713
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8,894
    Memory Write
    		 7,954

    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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