i3.large by Amazon Web Services

i3.large is a Storage optimized Gen3 large server offered by Amazon Web Services with 2 vCPUs, 15 GiB of memory and 475 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0163 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
15 GiB Memory
475 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1,033
(All-cores)
869
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
i3.large
Description
Storage optimized Gen3 large
Family
i3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-24T08:21:27.818368Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.021867 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.0379 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.03855 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.016367 USD/h 0.163 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.027767 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.0401 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.046367 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.057533 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.0207 USD/h 0.177 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.026267 USD/h 0.177 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.0317 USD/h 0.181 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.051733 USD/h 0.181 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.0484 USD/h 0.181 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.051733 USD/h 0.181 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.029225 USD/h 0.183 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.049833 USD/h 0.183 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.052033 USD/h 0.183 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.054467 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.0187 USD/h 0.187 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.034567 USD/h 0.187 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.0497 USD/h 0.187 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.055067 USD/h 0.187 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
0.0774 USD/h 0.189 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.044567 USD/h 0.205 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.053933 USD/h 0.205 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.0389 USD/h 0.206 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.035267 USD/h 0.249 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
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
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
256 KiB
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
1.2
Scalability
60

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
15 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
15 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    475 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 475 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    0.75 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    10 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    0.425 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    0.425 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A storage-optimized instance featuring dedicated compute resources and high-speed local NVMe SSD storage for localized data workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services i3.large is a storage-optimized instance utilizing the x86_64 architecture with an Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processor. It features 2 dedicated vCPUs, 15.0 GB of memory, and a bundled 475 GB NVMe SSD, operating on the Xen hypervisor. Benchmark data indicates that its CPU and memory performance, including stress-ng and Geekbench scores, fall within the bottom 10% of tested hardware. Despite these computational limitations, the instance provides a high-speed local storage footprint with a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps. This hardware profile makes the i3.large qualitatively cost-efficient for storage-heavy tasks that prioritize local NVMe capacity over raw processing power. It is best suited for lightweight database hosting, caching layers, and basic storage-intensive workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.121Score
    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) 132,571 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.0691 50.00% 50.00% -73.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 814,780 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.0694 20.00% 20.00% -41.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,398 2,418 0.578 10.00% 10.00% -5.33%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 22,618 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.209 10.00% 10.00% -14.50%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,686 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.713 10.00% 10.00% -3.33%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 866

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,005

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 2202
    Compression
    		 26482
    Encryption
    		 840
    Extended Instructions
    		 1285
    Floating Point Maths
    		 3582
    Integer Maths
    		 6632
    Physics
    		 311
    Prime Numbers
    		 15
    Single Threaded
    		 1686
    String Sorting
    		 3551

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1398
    Database Operations
    		 737
    Memory Latency
    		 79
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18499
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8853
    Memory Write
    		 8056

    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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