i3.xlarge by Amazon Web Services

i3.xlarge is a Storage optimized Gen3 xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 4 vCPUs, 31 GiB of memory and 950 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0344 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
31 GiB Memory
950 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2,080
(All-cores)
883
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
i3.xlarge
Description
Storage optimized Gen3 xlarge
Family
i3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-08T11:34:40.799860

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.063433 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.10515 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.129 USD/h 0.312 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.057933 USD/h 0.326 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.049867 USD/h 0.344 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.1152 USD/h 0.344 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.12405 USD/h 0.344 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.173767 USD/h 0.344 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.046067 USD/h 0.354 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.120867 USD/h 0.354 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.0981 USD/h 0.361 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.065767 USD/h 0.362 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.1046 USD/h 0.362 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.186233 USD/h 0.362 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.06855 USD/h 0.366 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.091233 USD/h 0.366 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.139367 USD/h 0.366 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.175633 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.0374 USD/h 0.374 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.061233 USD/h 0.374 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.1401 USD/h 0.374 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.152167 USD/h 0.374 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
0.1547 USD/h 0.378 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.064233 USD/h 0.409 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.115633 USD/h 0.41 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.092433 USD/h 0.412 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.088633 USD/h 0.498 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 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
2.4
Scalability
60

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A storage-optimized virtual server featuring high-capacity local NVMe SSD storage and balanced memory for database and caching workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory Optimized

    Amazon Web Services i3.xlarge is a storage-optimized instance featuring an Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processor with 4 vCPUs, 2 physical cores, and 30.0 GB of RAM. Running on the Xen hypervisor with an x86_64 architecture, its defining hardware feature is 950 GB of local NVMe SSD storage, complemented by a 1 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Benchmark evaluations place its CPU and memory performance in the lower tiers, with stress-ng and Geekbench scores in the bottom 10%, and memory read bandwidth at 22.62 GB/sec. Despite these processing limitations, the instance provides a high ratio of local storage to compute resources. This makes it qualitatively cost-effective for storage-centric applications that do not require intense CPU throughput. It is best suited for local databases, caching layers, and storage-intensive workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.19Score
    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) 258,471 ops/sec 2,029,678 ops/sec 0.13 50.00% 50.00% -64.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,644,345 ops/sec 12,408,146 ops/sec 0.13 20.00% 20.00% -34.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,714 2,417 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 23,275 MB/sec 108,374 MB/sec 0.21 10.00% 10.00% -14.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,880 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 898

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,900

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 4512
    Compression
    		 53904
    Encryption
    		 1701
    Extended Instructions
    		 2671
    Floating Point Maths
    		 8212
    Integer Maths
    		 13566
    Physics
    		 629
    Prime Numbers
    		 32
    Single Threaded
    		 1880
    String Sorting
    		 7280

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1714
    Database Operations
    		 1513
    Memory Latency
    		 79
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18635
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9067
    Memory Write
    		 8054

    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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