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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 0.5504 USD per hour.
64 vCPU
488 GiB Memory
15.2 TB Storage
Spare SCore
29387
(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
2026-07-21T04:13:26.629277

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
1.0254 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.625875 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
2.673717 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.9748 USD/h 5.216 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
2.518 USD/h 5.504 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
1.167433 USD/h 5.504 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
1.68675 USD/h 5.504 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
4.598933 USD/h 5.504 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.756433 USD/h 5.664 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.802567 USD/h 5.664 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
4.0453 USD/h 5.779 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.927467 USD/h 5.792 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.6642 USD/h 5.792 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
1.485367 USD/h 5.792 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.657767 USD/h 5.856 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
1.182425 USD/h 5.856 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.955667 USD/h 5.856 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
2.179767 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
1.7108 USD/h 5.984 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
2.1013 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
0.794967 USD/h 6.547 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.656 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
2.3525 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
105.94

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
488 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
488 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    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

    1.63Score
    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 1,896,415 ops/sec 2.13 50.00% 50.00% +45.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 24,710,625 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 2.14 20.00% 20.00% +16.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,005 2,411 0.832 10.00% 10.00% -1.82%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 108,624 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.01 10.00% 10.00% +0.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,803 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.763 10.00% 10.00% -2.67%

    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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