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 0.1338 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
122 GiB Memory
3.8 TB Storage
Spare SCore
8,326
(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
2026-10-31T04:43:58.142762

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.3338 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.565433 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.56765 USD/h 1.248 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.140167 USD/h 1.304 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.705933 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.54935 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.5517 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.6666 USD/h 1.376 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.1416 USD/h 1.416 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.547533 USD/h 1.416 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.563133 USD/h 1.445 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.478 USD/h 1.448 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.509267 USD/h 1.448 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.530533 USD/h 1.448 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.209367 USD/h 1.464 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.405375 USD/h 1.464 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.572933 USD/h 1.464 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.6138 USD/h 1.488 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.1496 USD/h 1.496 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.1496 USD/h 1.496 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.542567 USD/h 1.496 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.567167 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
0.2112 USD/h 1.637 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.535867 USD/h 1.64 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.207333 USD/h 1.648 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.253133 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
58.75

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
122 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
122 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    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

    0.59Score
    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 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.53 50.00% 50.00% -27.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,683,040 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.56 20.00% 20.00% -11.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,252 2,416 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 60,104 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.55 10.00% 10.00% -5.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,722 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 913

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 5,589

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 11,826
    Compression
    		 169,730
    Encryption
    		 3,736
    Extended Instructions
    		 8,714
    Floating Point Maths
    		 24,290
    Integer Maths
    		 38,498
    Physics
    		 1,257
    Prime Numbers
    		 84
    Single Threaded
    		 1,722
    String Sorting
    		 25,096

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,252
    Database Operations
    		 4,786
    Memory Latency
    		 55
    Memory Read Cached
    		 19,460
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,953
    Memory Write
    		 7,171

    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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