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 0.0859 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
30 GiB Memory
160 GB Storage
Spare SCore
6,710
(All-cores)
1,279
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m3.2xlarge
Description
General purpose Gen3 2xlarge
Family
m3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-02T00:23:49.864961

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.198525 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.2002 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.2628 USD/h 0.585 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.18495 USD/h 0.616 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.3334 USD/h 0.632 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.224733 USD/h 0.745 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.10195 USD/h 0.761 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.24635 USD/h 0.77 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.26485 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
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
30 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
30 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    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 dedicated eight-vCPU general-purpose instance featuring local NVMe SSD storage and balanced memory for legacy multi-threaded workloads.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    The Amazon Web Services m3.2xlarge is a general-purpose instance utilizing the Xen hypervisor and x86_64 architecture. It is configured with an Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 processor running at 2.5 GHz, delivering 8 dedicated vCPUs across 4 physical cores. The hardware profile includes 30.0 GB of RAM, 160 GB of local NVMe SSD storage, and a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps. Benchmark data shows weak single-core performance but average multi-core capabilities, with a stress-ng multi-core score of 6709.91 and average memory bandwidth. The instance is well-suited for static web serving, software compilation, and general-purpose multi-threaded workloads. However, it exhibits performance limitations in modern database operations and advanced instruction-heavy tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    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 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.29 50.00% 50.00% -46.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,318,729 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.19 20.00% 20.00% -28.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,189 2,416 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,018 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.48 10.00% 10.00% -7.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,792 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 710

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,696

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 7,145
    Compression
    		 101,848
    Encryption
    		 3,101
    Extended Instructions
    		 3,716
    Floating Point Maths
    		 12,242
    Integer Maths
    		 22,098
    Physics
    		 854
    Prime Numbers
    		 41
    Single Threaded
    		 1,792
    String Sorting
    		 12,275

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,189
    Database Operations
    		 2,586
    Memory Latency
    		 57
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22,014
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,427
    Memory Write
    		 9,327

    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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