i3.16xlarge by Amazon Web Services

i3.16xlarge is a Storage optimized Gen3 16xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 64 vCPUs, 488 GiB of memory and 15.2 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.5216 USD per hour.
64 vCPU
488 GiB Memory
15.2 TB Storage
Spare SCore
29,387
(All-cores)
866
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
i3.16xlarge
Description
Storage optimized Gen3 16xlarge
Family
i3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-19T09:35:52.432288

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.656233 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.6077 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.9627 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.5216 USD/h 5.216 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.869967 USD/h 5.504 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
4.067033 USD/h 5.504 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
1.95405 USD/h 5.504 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
2.12 USD/h 5.504 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.5664 USD/h 5.664 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
1.1557 USD/h 5.664 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
1.0014 USD/h 5.779 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.8319 USD/h 5.792 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.983533 USD/h 5.792 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
1.291167 USD/h 5.792 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.693725 USD/h 5.856 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.5856 USD/h 5.856 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
1.084133 USD/h 5.856 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
2.380967 USD/h 5.952 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.5984 USD/h 5.984 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.5984 USD/h 5.984 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.215167 USD/h 5.984 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.848033 USD/h 5.984 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
2.4784 USD/h 6.054 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.6547 USD/h 6.547 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.7904 USD/h 6.56 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.6592 USD/h 6.592 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.7968 USD/h 7.968 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
64
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
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
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
45 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
90 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, arch_perfmon, 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, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, rdseed, adx, xsaveopt, ida
Ecpus
33.9
Scalability
52.97

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
488 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
488 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    15200 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    25 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    25 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    14 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    14 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A storage-optimized server featuring 15,200 GB of local NVMe SSD storage and 64 vCPUs for data-intensive, multi-threaded workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory Optimized

    Amazon Web Services i3.16xlarge is a storage-optimized server featuring 64 vCPUs (32 physical cores) powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processor on the Xen hypervisor. It is configured with 488.0 GB of RAM and 15,200 GB of local NVMe SSD storage, supported by a 25 Gbps baseline network speed. Benchmark results indicate a significant performance trade-off: single-core CPU execution and text processing fall into the bottom 10%, whereas multi-threaded operations, memory bandwidth, and database operations consistently perform in the middle 50%. This server is suited for storage-heavy and database-driven workloads, such as Redis deployments and static web serving, where local NVMe capacity and multi-threaded throughput are critical, rather than compute-bound or single-threaded tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.6Score
    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) 4,048,221 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 2.1 50.00% 50.00% +45.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 24,710,625 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 2.1 20.00% 20.00% +16.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,005 2,417 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 108,624 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,803 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 885

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 8,733

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 45075
    Compression
    		 849804
    Encryption
    		 27221
    Extended Instructions
    		 43419
    Floating Point Maths
    		 132783
    Integer Maths
    		 218128
    Physics
    		 3839
    Prime Numbers
    		 232
    Single Threaded
    		 1803
    String Sorting
    		 111519

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2005
    Database Operations
    		 21212
    Memory Latency
    		 78
    Memory Read Cached
    		 17805
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8996
    Memory Write
    		 8147

    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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