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i3.4xlarge by Amazon Web Services

i3.4xlarge is a Storage optimized Gen3 4xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 16 vCPUs, 122 GiB of memory and 3.8 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1445 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
122 GiB Memory
3.8 TB Storage
Spare SCore
8326
(All-cores)
883
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
i3.4xlarge
Description
Storage optimized Gen3 4xlarge
Family
i3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-12T09:13:52.165099

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.382367 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.826933 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.71015 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.366967 USD/h 1.304 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.5151 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.606067 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.59775 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.0794 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.3303 USD/h 1.416 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.381967 USD/h 1.416 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.355967 USD/h 1.445 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.4426 USD/h 1.448 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.5216 USD/h 1.448 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.522933 USD/h 1.448 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.222367 USD/h 1.464 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.478625 USD/h 1.464 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.566133 USD/h 1.464 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.701633 USD/h 1.488 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.179167 USD/h 1.496 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.1496 USD/h 1.496 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.589667 USD/h 1.496 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.579267 USD/h 1.496 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
0.6198 USD/h 1.514 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.2192 USD/h 1.637 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.206733 USD/h 1.64 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.220533 USD/h 1.648 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.342033 USD/h 1.992 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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, 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
Ecpus
9.4
Scalability
117.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
122 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
122 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    3800 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    5 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    10 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    3.5 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    3.5 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A storage-optimized platform combining 3.8 TB of local NVMe SSD capacity with balanced multi-core performance for database and caching workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services i3.4xlarge is a storage-optimized instance featuring an Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processor with 16 vCPUs, 8 physical cores, and 122.0 GB of RAM. It includes 3800 GB of local NVMe SSD storage and a 5 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Performance benchmarks indicate a clear tradeoff: single-core CPU performance and single-threaded compression tasks are poor, ranking in the bottom 10%, whereas multi-core CPU metrics, memory read bandwidth, and database operations perform at an average level within the middle 50%. The instance delivers average throughput for Redis SET operations and static web serving. This hardware profile, characterized by high local storage capacity relative to compute resources, is designed for storage-intensive workloads, databases, and caching applications that benefit from direct NVMe access rather than raw single-threaded CPU speed.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.6Score
    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) 1,042,913 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.546 50.00% 50.00% -26.10%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,683,040 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.576 20.00% 20.00% -10.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,252 2,416 0.932 10.00% 10.00% -0.70%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 60,104 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.557 10.00% 10.00% -5.68%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,722 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.728 10.00% 10.00% -3.12%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 913

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 5,589

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    11826
    Compression
    169730
    Encryption
    3736
    Extended Instructions
    8714
    Floating Point Maths
    24290
    Integer Maths
    38498
    Physics
    1257
    Prime Numbers
    84
    Single Threaded
    1722
    String Sorting
    25096

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    2252
    Database Operations
    4786
    Memory Latency
    55
    Memory Read Cached
    19460
    Memory Read Uncached
    9953
    Memory Write
    7171

    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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