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m3.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m3.2xlarge is a General purpose Gen3 2xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 8 vCPUs, 30 GiB of memory and 160 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1476 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
30 GiB Memory
160 GB Storage
Spare SCore
6710
(All-cores)
1279
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m3.2xlarge
Description
General purpose Gen3 2xlarge
Family
m3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-03T07:13:49.656932

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.191533 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.25255 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.254333 USD/h 0.585 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.2159 USD/h 0.616 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.34745 USD/h 0.632 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.229567 USD/h 0.745 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.16545 USD/h 0.761 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.25595 USD/h 0.77 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.29525 USD/h 0.784 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2670 v2
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
25 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
25 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, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, pti, fsgsbase, smep, erms, xsaveopt
Ecpus
5.2
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A balanced general-purpose instance combining legacy Intel Xeon processing, 30 GB of memory, and local NVMe SSD storage.

    General Purpose

    Amazon Web Services m3.2xlarge is an x86_64 general-purpose instance running on the Xen hypervisor. It features an Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 processor with 8 vCPUs (4 physical cores, 2 threads per core) operating at 2.5 GHz, supported by 30.0 GB of RAM and a bundled 160 GB NVMe SSD. Network performance is anchored by a 1 Gbps baseline bandwidth. Benchmark data shows average multi-core CPU performance and average memory bandwidth, though single-core performance is poor. Lacking AVX-512 and AMX instruction sets, this instance exhibits weak performance in modern database operations and cryptography tests. Qualitatively, it provides a balanced resource profile for legacy general-purpose applications, software compilation, and static web serving, but is less efficient for modern high-throughput or instruction-heavy workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.35Score
    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) 555,268 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.291 50.00% 50.00% -46.10%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,318,729 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.2 20.00% 20.00% -27.50%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,189 2,416 0.906 10.00% 10.00% -0.98%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,018 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.491 10.00% 10.00% -6.87%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,792 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.758 10.00% 10.00% -2.73%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 710

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,696

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 7145
    Compression
    		 101848
    Encryption
    		 3101
    Extended Instructions
    		 3716
    Floating Point Maths
    		 12242
    Integer Maths
    		 22098
    Physics
    		 854
    Prime Numbers
    		 41
    Single Threaded
    		 1792
    String Sorting
    		 12275

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2189
    Database Operations
    		 2586
    Memory Latency
    		 57
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22014
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9427
    Memory Write
    		 9327

    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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