i3.metal by Amazon Web Services
i3.metal is a Storage optimized Gen3 metal server offered by Amazon Web Services with 72 vCPUs, 512 GiB of memory and 15.2 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 4.992 USD per hour.
72 vCPU
512 GiB Memory
15.2 TB Storage
Spare SCore
38022
(All-cores)
(All-cores)
988
(Single-core)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | aws |
Name | i3.metal |
Description | Storage optimized Gen3 metal |
Family | i3 |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-05-17T23:52:32.905501 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Oregon (US) / us-west-2 | - | 4.992 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 72 |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 36 |
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 | 9 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, dts, acpi, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, tm, pbe, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, arch_perfmon, pebs, bts, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, dtes64, monitor, ds_cpl, vmx, smx, est, tm2, ssse3, sdbg, fma, cx16, xtpr, pdcm, pcid, dca, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, cpuid_fault, epb, cat_l3, cdp_l3, pti, intel_ppin, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, cqm, rdt_a, rdseed, adx, smap, intel_pt, xsaveopt, cqm_llc, cqm_occup_llc, cqm_mbm_total, cqm_mbm_local, dtherm, ida, arat, pln, pts, vnmi, md_clear, flush_l1d |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 512 GiB |
Memory Generation | DDR4 |
Memory Speed | 2667 Mhz |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 15200 GB |
Storage Type | nvme ssd |
Storages |
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| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Network Speed | 25 Gbps |
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Score: 992
Geekbench Multi-Core
Score: 9,899
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 40175 |
Compression | 772971 |
Encryption | 17162 |
Extended Instructions | 40240 |
Floating Point Maths | 111919 |
Integer Maths | 176819 |
Physics | 2790 |
Prime Numbers | 232 |
Single Threaded | 1950 |
String Sorting | 109014 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 2343 |
Database Operations | 18591 |
Memory Latency | 54 |
Memory Read Cached | 20448 |
Memory Read Uncached | 8796 |
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
Alternatives
Servers of the Same Family
| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| i3.large | 2 | 15 GiB | 0 |
| i3.xlarge | 4 | 31 GiB | 0 |
| i3.2xlarge | 8 | 61 GiB | 0 |
| i3.4xlarge | 16 | 122 GiB | 0 |
| i3.8xlarge | 32 | 244 GiB | 0 |
| i3.16xlarge | 64 | 488 GiB | 0 |
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