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
38,022
(All-cores)
988
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
i3.metal
Description
Storage optimized Gen3 metal
Family
Storage Optimized
Series
i3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-14T11:43:15.212775

Availability

Region / IDSpotOndemand
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
Ecpus
38.5
Scalability
53.47

System Resources and Accelerators

Memory
Memory Amount
512 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
512 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2667 Mhz
Accelerators
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    Storage
    Storage Size
    15200 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    • 1900 GB nvme ssd
    Compatible Storage IDs
    standard, gp2, gp3, st1, sc1, io1, io2
    Network
    Network Speed Baseline
    25 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    25 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    19 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    19 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A bare-metal instance delivering massive local NVMe SSD storage and high core density for data-intensive database workloads.

    Amazon Web Services i3.metal is a storage-optimized bare-metal server designed for high-throughput, data-intensive workloads. Powered by Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processors, it delivers 72 vCPUs (36 physical cores) on the x86_64 architecture, paired with 512 GB of DDR4 memory. The server's defining feature is its 15,200 GB of local NVMe SSD storage, complemented by a 25 Gbps baseline network speed. While single-core benchmarks show weak performance, multi-core and memory bandwidth tests fall into the average tier, reflecting its strength in parallel processing. This hardware profile makes the i3.metal highly efficient for large-scale databases, NoSQL deployments, and high-capacity caching layers where direct physical access to dense local storage is critical.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.8Score
    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) 4,811,973 ops/sec 1,933,252 ops/sec 2.5 50.00% 50.00% +58.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 29,062,618 ops/sec 11,814,424 ops/sec 2.4 20.00% 20.00% +19.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,343 2,408 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 124,129 MB/sec 108,674 MB/sec 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,950 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 992

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,899

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 40,175
    Compression
    		 772,971
    Encryption
    		 17,162
    Extended Instructions
    		 40,240
    Floating Point Maths
    		 111,919
    Integer Maths
    		 176,819
    Physics
    		 2,790
    Prime Numbers
    		 232
    Single Threaded
    		 1,950
    String Sorting
    		 109,014

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,343
    Database Operations
    		 18,591
    Memory Latency
    		 54
    Memory Read Cached
    		 20,448
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 8,796
    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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