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x1e.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services

x1e.2xlarge is a Memory intensive [Extra storage or memory] Gen1 2xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 8 vCPUs, 244 GiB of memory and 240 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1848 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
244 GiB Memory
240 GB Storage
Spare SCore
4139
(All-cores)
740
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
x1e.2xlarge
Description
Memory intensive [Extra storage or memory] Gen1 2xlarge
Family
x1e
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-13T10:37:31.998181

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.3188 USD/h 1.668 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.410825 USD/h 1.668 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.4682 USD/h 1.668 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.20865 USD/h 1.72 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.4853 USD/h 1.834 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.531967 USD/h 2 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.457067 USD/h 2.334 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.238 USD/h 2.38 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.2418 USD/h 2.418 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.29145 USD/h 2.418 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.2418 USD/h 2.418 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.58515 USD/h 2.418 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.76455 USD/h 2.418 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
1.51835 USD/h 3.251 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
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
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, cpuid_fault, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, xsaveopt
Ecpus
5.6
Scalability
140

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
244 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
244 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    240 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 240 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    1.25 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 memory-intensive virtual server featuring a high memory-to-core ratio and local NVMe storage for memory-bound workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services x1e.2xlarge is a memory-optimized instance designed for memory-intensive workloads. It features an Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 processor with 8 dedicated vCPUs across 4 physical cores, 244.0 GB of RAM, and a 240 GB NVMe SSD. Operating under the Xen hypervisor, it provides a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps. Benchmark results show that the instance has weak CPU and memory bandwidth performance, with single-core metrics in the bottom 10% and multi-core scores in the bottom 25%. However, its high memory-to-core ratio of 30.5 GB per core makes it a viable option for workloads requiring massive RAM capacity over high-speed processing. The x1e.2xlarge is best suited for in-memory databases, caching layers, and memory-heavy applications that do not demand intensive computational throughput.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.312Score
    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) 470,641 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.246 50.00% 50.00% -50.40%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,027,251 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.261 20.00% 20.00% -23.60%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,469 2,416 0.608 10.00% 10.00% -4.85%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,886 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.342 10.00% 10.00% -10.20%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,618 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.684 10.00% 10.00% -3.73%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 841

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,121

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 6005
    Compression
    		 83758
    Encryption
    		 1843
    Extended Instructions
    		 4278
    Floating Point Maths
    		 9770
    Integer Maths
    		 19373
    Physics
    		 702
    Prime Numbers
    		 46
    Single Threaded
    		 1618
    String Sorting
    		 12648

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1469
    Database Operations
    		 1982
    Memory Latency
    		 91
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18806
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 5277
    Memory Write
    		 5717

    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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