i2.8xlarge by Amazon Web Services

i2.8xlarge is a Storage optimized Gen2 8xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 32 vCPUs, 244 GiB of memory and 6.4 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.682 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
244 GiB Memory
6.4 TB Storage
Spare SCore
27,789
(All-cores)
1,890
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
i2.8xlarge
Description
Storage optimized Gen2 8xlarge
Family
i2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-29T10:04:49.308366

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.682 USD/h 6.82 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.0727 USD/h 6.82 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.4695 USD/h 6.82 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.7502 USD/h 7.502 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.360333 USD/h 7.502 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.7733 USD/h 7.733 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
1.11045 USD/h 8.004 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.8004 USD/h 8.004 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.31865 USD/h 8.102 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.289867 USD/h 8.14 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.42385 USD/h 8.14 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2670 v2
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
25 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
50 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, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cpuid_fault, pti, fsgsbase, smep, erms, xsaveopt
Ecpus
14.7
Scalability
45.94

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
244 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
244 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    6400 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 800 GB nvme ssd
    • 800 GB nvme ssd
    • 800 GB nvme ssd
    • 800 GB nvme ssd
    • 800 GB nvme ssd
    • 800 GB nvme ssd
    • 800 GB nvme ssd
    • 800 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    10 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    10 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A storage-optimized instance featuring massive local NVMe SSD capacity and balanced memory for high-throughput database and transactional workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services i2.8xlarge is a storage-optimized instance powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 processor with 16 physical cores, 32 vCPUs, and 244.0 GB of RAM. It features 6400 GB of local NVMe SSD storage and a 10 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Performance benchmarks indicate average multi-core capabilities, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 5071.0 and 11.15 million operations per second on Redis SET tasks. However, single-core performance is weak, with a Geekbench single-core score of 534.0 and poor single-threaded decompression speeds. The lack of AVX-512 instructions limits its utility for modern machine learning workloads, as shown by poor large-model LLM inference speeds. This instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for storage-heavy workloads and is best suited for databases, transactional processing, and static web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.99Score
    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) 2,283,003 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.2 50.00% 50.00% +9.50%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,049,865 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.75 20.00% 20.00% -5.60%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,282 2,416 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 85,664 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.78 10.00% 10.00% -2.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,992 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 534

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 5,071

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 29,387
    Compression
    		 462,611
    Encryption
    		 14,890
    Extended Instructions
    		 18,498
    Floating Point Maths
    		 62,149
    Integer Maths
    		 116,278
    Physics
    		 3,191
    Prime Numbers
    		 177
    Single Threaded
    		 1,992
    String Sorting
    		 64,299

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,282
    Database Operations
    		 12,598
    Memory Latency
    		 68
    Memory Read Cached
    		 20,737
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,522
    Memory Write
    		 9,366

    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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