x1.32xlarge by Amazon Web Services

x1.32xlarge is a Memory intensive Gen1 32xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 128 vCPUs, 1952 GiB of memory and 3.84 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 1.3762 USD per hour.
128 vCPU
1952 GiB Memory
3.84 TB Storage
Spare SCore
60,930
(All-cores)
731
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
x1.32xlarge
Description
Memory intensive Gen1 32xlarge
Family
x1
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-15T14:22:29.890322

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
1.8754 USD/h 13.338 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
3.555967 USD/h 13.338 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
4.066683 USD/h 13.338 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
1.3844 USD/h 13.762 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
1.4672 USD/h 14.672 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
3.298633 USD/h 16.006 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
1.704367 USD/h 16.806 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
1.6806 USD/h 16.806 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
3.237933 USD/h 18.674 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
1.9048 USD/h 19.048 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
1.9341 USD/h 19.341 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.9341 USD/h 19.341 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
2.761933 USD/h 19.341 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
2.767267 USD/h 19.341 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
1.9342 USD/h 19.342 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
9.51985 USD/h 21.276 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
2.601 USD/h 26.01 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
128
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
64
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E7-8880 v3
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
45 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
180 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, arch_perfmon, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, est, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, cpuid_fault, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, xsaveopt, ida
Ecpus
83.4
Scalability
130.31

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 TB
Memory Amount Actual
2 TB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    3840 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 1920 GB nvme ssd
    • 1920 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    25 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    25 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    14 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    14 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A memory-intensive platform featuring massive RAM capacity and local NVMe SSD storage for enterprise database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services x1.32xlarge is a memory-optimized instance powered by an Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 processor on the x86_64 architecture. It delivers 128 vCPUs (64 physical cores) at 2.3 GHz, paired with 1952.0 GB of RAM and 3840 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. Operating on the Xen hypervisor, it features a baseline network bandwidth of 25 Gbps. Benchmark data indicates a significant tradeoff: while single-core CPU performance and single-threaded compression are weak, the instance achieves strong memory bandwidth and static web serving throughput, both ranking in the top 25%. Multi-core performance and database operations remain average. Given its massive memory capacity and local NVMe storage, the x1.32xlarge is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-bound enterprise applications and large in-memory databases, though it is less suited for compute-heavy or single-threaded workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.1Score
    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) 5,952,960 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 3.1 50.00% 50.00% +76.10%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 26,067,366 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 2.23 20.00% 20.00% +17.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,625 2,418 0.672 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 273,835 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 2.53 10.00% 10.00% +9.73%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,598 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.676 10.00% 10.00% -3.84%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 866

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 9,098

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 40478
    Compression
    		 886245
    Encryption
    		 19358
    Extended Instructions
    		 41832
    Floating Point Maths
    		 103855
    Integer Maths
    		 199990
    Physics
    		 3839
    Prime Numbers
    		 260
    Single Threaded
    		 1598
    String Sorting
    		 127259

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1625
    Database Operations
    		 14956
    Memory Latency
    		 93
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18368
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 5671
    Memory Write
    		 6105

    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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