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x1e.4xlarge by Amazon Web Services

x1e.4xlarge is a Memory intensive [Extra storage or memory] Gen1 4xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 16 vCPUs, 488 GiB of memory and 480 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.4186 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
488 GiB Memory
480 GB Storage
Spare SCore
8296
(All-cores)
739
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
x1e.4xlarge
Description
Memory intensive [Extra storage or memory] Gen1 4xlarge
Family
x1e
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-21T22:13:14.063713

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.476 USD/h -
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.55455 USD/h 3.336 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.838667 USD/h 3.336 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.920525 USD/h 3.336 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.4831 USD/h 3.44 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
2.2727 USD/h 3.667 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.9885 USD/h 4 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.9564 USD/h 4.668 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.4836 USD/h 4.836 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.4836 USD/h 4.836 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.4836 USD/h 4.836 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.18545 USD/h 4.836 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.1825 USD/h 4.836 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
3.16305 USD/h 6.502 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
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
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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
11.2
Scalability
140

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A memory-intensive server featuring an exceptional memory-to-vCPU ratio and local NVMe SSD storage for large-scale caching and database workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services x1e.4xlarge is a memory-optimized server instance designed for memory-intensive workloads. Powered by an Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 processor with 16 dedicated vCPUs and 8 physical cores, it features a massive 488.0 GB of RAM alongside a bundled 480 GB NVMe SSD. While single-core CPU benchmarks and uncached large-block memory bandwidth fall into the bottom 10%, multi-core performance and cached memory read speeds remain average. The instance provides a baseline network bandwidth of 2 Gbps. This hardware profile is highly specialized for workloads requiring substantial memory capacity relative to compute power, such as in-memory databases, caching layers, and enterprise applications with large memory footprints.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.459Score
    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) 924,582 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.488 50.00% 50.00% -30.10%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 6,052,550 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.525 20.00% 20.00% -12.10%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,540 2,411 0.639 10.00% 10.00% -4.38%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 14,815 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.138 10.00% 10.00% -18.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,476 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.625 10.00% 10.00% -4.59%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 797

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 4,537

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		11162
    Compression
    		166597
    Encryption
    		3688
    Extended Instructions
    		8650
    Floating Point Maths
    		19534
    Integer Maths
    		38708
    Physics
    		1075
    Prime Numbers
    		78
    Single Threaded
    		1476
    String Sorting
    		25162

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		1540
    Database Operations
    		3868
    Memory Latency
    		91
    Memory Read Cached
    		18665
    Memory Read Uncached
    		5240
    Memory Write
    		5721

    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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