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i2.xlarge by Amazon Web Services

i2.xlarge is a Storage optimized Gen2 xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 4 vCPUs, 31 GiB of memory and 800 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0967 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
31 GiB Memory
800 GB Storage
Spare SCore
3620
(All-cores)
1621
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
i2.xlarge
Description
Storage optimized Gen2 xlarge
Family
i2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-07T22:33:34.444986

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.103067 USD/h 0.853 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.15826 USD/h 0.853 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.1248 USD/h 0.853 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.1595 USD/h 0.938 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.236367 USD/h 0.938 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.0967 USD/h 0.967 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.12625 USD/h 1.001 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.1631 USD/h 1.001 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.1974 USD/h 1.013 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.166767 USD/h 1.018 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.1952 USD/h 1.018 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
25 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
25 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
2.2
Scalability
110

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
31 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
31 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    800 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 800 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    0.7 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    2.8 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    0.5 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    0.5 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A storage-optimized virtual server featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and local NVMe SSD storage for database and data-retrieval workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services i2.xlarge is a storage-optimized virtual server instance utilizing the Xen hypervisor. It is configured with an Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 processor running at 2.5 GHz, delivering 4 dedicated vCPUs across 2 physical cores. The instance features 30.0 GB of RAM and 800 GB of local NVMe SSD storage, alongside a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps. Performance benchmarks indicate that the i2.xlarge has modest processing capabilities, with average single-core CPU performance but weak multi-core and memory bandwidth results. Database operations and Redis SET throughput are also limited. Given its hardware profile, the i2.xlarge is qualitatively cost-efficient for storage-centric workloads that require local NVMe SSD capacity rather than high-performance compute. It is best suited for basic database hosting, static web serving, and legacy storage tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.219Score
    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) 323,816 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.169 50.00% 50.00% -58.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,266,762 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.109 20.00% 20.00% -35.80%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,793 2,416 0.742 10.00% 10.00% -2.94%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 26,688 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.247 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,980 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.837 10.00% 10.00% -1.76%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 532

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,136

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 4485
    Compression
    		 56739
    Encryption
    		 1843
    Extended Instructions
    		 2141
    Floating Point Maths
    		 7502
    Integer Maths
    		 14394
    Physics
    		 639
    Prime Numbers
    		 33
    Single Threaded
    		 1980
    String Sorting
    		 7933

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1793
    Database Operations
    		 1652
    Memory Latency
    		 76
    Memory Read Cached
    		 20583
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9180
    Memory Write
    		 8466

    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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