i4i.metal by Amazon Web Services

i4i.metal is a Storage optimized [Intel processors] Gen4 metal server offered by Amazon Web Services with 128 vCPUs, 1024 GiB of memory and 30 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.1475 USD per hour.
128 vCPU
1024 GiB Memory
30 TB Storage
Spare SCore
125,020
(All-cores)
1,910
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
i4i.metal
Description
Storage optimized [Intel processors] Gen4 metal
Family
i4i
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-14T21:57:16.495841

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
1.863933 USD/h 10.982 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
3.215525 USD/h 10.982 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
3.362967 USD/h 10.982 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
1.1475 USD/h 11.475 USD/h
(MX) / mx-central-1
3.111367 USD/h 11.532 USD/h
Taipei (TW) / ap-east-2
11.595 USD/h 11.595 USD/h
(TH) / ap-southeast-7
2.934833 USD/h 11.848 USD/h
(MY) / ap-southeast-5
2.9186 USD/h 11.848 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
1.685467 USD/h 12.109 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
6.65995 USD/h 12.109 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
1.2109 USD/h 12.109 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
2.873867 USD/h 12.109 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
3.640833 USD/h 12.109 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
1.5594 USD/h 12.461 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
3.131033 USD/h 12.461 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
5.648433 USD/h 12.714 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
1.535367 USD/h 12.742 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
1.724075 USD/h 12.742 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
2.134767 USD/h 12.742 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
1.412167 USD/h 12.883 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
1.2883 USD/h 12.883 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
2.3893 USD/h 12.883 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
2.422533 USD/h 13.094 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
1.3165 USD/h 13.165 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
1.3165 USD/h 13.165 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
2.876 USD/h 13.165 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
4.051333 USD/h 13.165 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
5.4472 USD/h 13.306 USD/h
(NZ) / ap-southeast-6
13.823 USD/h 13.823 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
2.784433 USD/h 14.404 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
1.4432 USD/h 14.432 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
1.4502 USD/h 14.502 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
1.753 USD/h 17.53 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
128
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
64
CPU Speed
3.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8375C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
3 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
80 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
54 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
108 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, art, 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, intel_ppin, ssbd, mba, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, cqm, rdt_a, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, intel_pt, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, cqm_llc, cqm_occup_llc, cqm_mbm_total, cqm_mbm_local, split_lock_detect, wbnoinvd, dtherm, ida, arat, pln, pts, hwp, hwp_act_window, hwp_epp, hwp_pkg_req, vnmi, avx512vbmi, umip, pku, ospke, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, tme, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, fsrm, md_clear, pconfig, flush_l1d, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
65.5
Scalability
102.34

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
1 TB
Memory Amount Actual
1 TB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
3200 Mhz
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    30000 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 3750 GB nvme ssd
    • 3750 GB nvme ssd
    • 3750 GB nvme ssd
    • 3750 GB nvme ssd
    • 3750 GB nvme ssd
    • 3750 GB nvme ssd
    • 3750 GB nvme ssd
    • 3750 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    75 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    75 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    40 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    40 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A bare-metal, storage-optimized server featuring massive local NVMe SSD capacity and high-performance multi-core processing for data-intensive workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory OptimizedCompute Optimized

    Amazon Web Services i4i.metal is a storage-optimized bare-metal server featuring 128 vCPUs from Intel Xeon 8375C processors running at 3.5 GHz. It is equipped with 1024.0 GB of DDR4 memory and 30,000 GB of local NVMe SSD storage, alongside a 75 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. The server delivers strong multi-core performance, ranking in the top 25% for multi-core stress-ng and Geekbench tests, and top 10% for Passmark CPU encryption and extended instruction benchmarks. Single-core performance and text processing remain in the average tier. Lacking a GPU, this instance is optimized for high-throughput, data-intensive workloads. It is highly suited for large-scale databases, Redis deployments, and transactional operations requiring massive local storage and high memory bandwidth without hypervisor overhead.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    4.62Score
    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) 15,046,673 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 7.85 50.00% 50.00% +180.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 71,604,631 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 6.13 20.00% 20.00% +43.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,755 2,418 1.14 10.00% 10.00% +1.32%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 361,896 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 3.35 10.00% 10.00% +12.90%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,450 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.04 10.00% 10.00% +0.39%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,678

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 17,676

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 87525
    Compression
    		 1904539
    Encryption
    		 111573
    Extended Instructions
    		 106469
    Floating Point Maths
    		 277011
    Integer Maths
    		 541797
    Physics
    		 8692
    Prime Numbers
    		 548
    Single Threaded
    		 2450
    String Sorting
    		 241018

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2755
    Database Operations
    		 30570
    Memory Latency
    		 56
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24554
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11932
    Memory Write
    		 10759

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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