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i3.8xlarge by Amazon Web Services

i3.8xlarge is a Storage optimized Gen3 8xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 32 vCPUs, 244 GiB of memory and 7.6 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2752 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
244 GiB Memory
7.6 TB Storage
Spare SCore
16172
(All-cores)
857
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
i3.8xlarge
Description
Storage optimized Gen3 8xlarge
Family
i3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-11T11:29:30.218231

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.689933 USD/h 2.496 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.233125 USD/h 2.496 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.62485 USD/h 2.496 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.547367 USD/h 2.608 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
1.9264 USD/h 2.752 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
1.6474 USD/h 2.752 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.818633 USD/h 2.752 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
2.752 USD/h 2.752 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.6299 USD/h 2.832 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.4988 USD/h 2.832 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.4817 USD/h 2.89 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.404733 USD/h 2.896 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
1.5283 USD/h 2.896 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
1.643867 USD/h 2.896 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.794525 USD/h 2.928 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.5902 USD/h 2.928 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.609167 USD/h 2.928 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.3388 USD/h 2.976 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.312533 USD/h 2.992 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.2992 USD/h 2.992 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.139 USD/h 2.992 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.414633 USD/h 2.992 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
1.2392 USD/h 3.027 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.578767 USD/h 3.274 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.402633 USD/h 3.28 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.3296 USD/h 3.296 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.4085 USD/h 3.984 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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, 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
18.9
Scalability
118.12

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
244 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
244 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    7600 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    12 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    12 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    7 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    7 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A storage-optimized instance featuring massive local NVMe SSD capacity and balanced memory for parallelized database and caching workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services i3.8xlarge is a storage-optimized instance built on the x86_64 architecture and the Xen hypervisor. It features an Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processor with 16 physical cores, 32 dedicated vCPUs, and 244.0 GB of RAM. A defining characteristic is its 7600 GB of local NVMe SSD storage, paired with a 12 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Performance benchmarks indicate weak single-core capabilities, with single-threaded processing and large-block memory writes falling into the lower percentiles. Conversely, multi-threaded operations, database tasks, and Redis SET operations perform in the average range. This hardware profile offers qualitative cost efficiency for storage-intensive deployments that benefit from high local capacity and parallel execution. It is best suited for databases, caching layers, and distributed file systems rather than single-threaded compute tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.981Score
    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) 2,166,974 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 1.13 50.00% 50.00% +6.30%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 12,868,491 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 1.11 20.00% 20.00% +2.11%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,193 2,416 0.908 10.00% 10.00% -0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 59,592 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.552 10.00% 10.00% -5.77%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,683 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.712 10.00% 10.00% -3.34%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 892

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,534

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 20269
    Compression
    		 328487
    Encryption
    		 7330
    Extended Instructions
    		 17159
    Floating Point Maths
    		 47691
    Integer Maths
    		 75552
    Physics
    		 1363
    Prime Numbers
    		 108
    Single Threaded
    		 1683
    String Sorting
    		 47522

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2193
    Database Operations
    		 9119
    Memory Latency
    		 57
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18596
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9144
    Memory Write
    		 6976

    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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