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x1e.8xlarge by Amazon Web Services

x1e.8xlarge is a Memory intensive [Extra storage or memory] Gen1 8xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 32 vCPUs, 976 GiB of memory and 960 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.7334 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
976 GiB Memory
960 GB Storage
Spare SCore
16565
(All-cores)
722
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
x1e.8xlarge
Description
Memory intensive [Extra storage or memory] Gen1 8xlarge
Family
x1e
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-23T19:53:28.003959

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.952 USD/h -
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
1.2399 USD/h 6.672 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.7172 USD/h 6.672 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.92925 USD/h 6.672 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
4.2073 USD/h 6.88 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
4.0337 USD/h 7.334 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
2.036133 USD/h 8 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.6793 USD/h 9.336 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.9672 USD/h 9.672 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.9672 USD/h 9.672 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.9506 USD/h 9.672 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
3.2988 USD/h 9.672 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
6.8007 USD/h 9.672 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
6.86535 USD/h 13.005 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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, 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
22.9
Scalability
143.12

System Resources and Accelerators

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

    Server Description

    A memory-intensive server featuring massive RAM capacity and local NVMe storage, configured for large-scale database and caching workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services x1e.8xlarge is a memory-optimized server designed for memory-intensive enterprise applications. It features 32 vCPUs (16 physical cores) powered by an Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 processor running at 2.3 GHz, paired with 976.0 GB of RAM and 960 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. Operating on the Xen hypervisor, it delivers a baseline network speed of 5 Gbps. Performance benchmarks indicate a significant tradeoff: single-core CPU execution and single-threaded decompression are poor, placing in the bottom 10%, while multi-core performance and memory bandwidth achieve average tier results. This hardware profile is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-bound workloads rather than compute-heavy tasks. It is configured for in-memory databases, caching layers like Redis, and large-scale database operations.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.87Score
    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) 1,869,148 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.986 50.00% 50.00% -0.70%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 11,809,431 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.02 20.00% 20.00% +0.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,494 2,411 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.67%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 65,160 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.607 10.00% 10.00% -4.87%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,609 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.681 10.00% 10.00% -3.77%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 843

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,244

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 18782
    Compression
    		 310584
    Encryption
    		 7115
    Extended Instructions
    		 15065
    Floating Point Maths
    		 38206
    Integer Maths
    		 75814
    Physics
    		 1267
    Prime Numbers
    		 92
    Single Threaded
    		 1609
    String Sorting
    		 43769

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1494
    Database Operations
    		 7588
    Memory Latency
    		 96
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18217
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 5036
    Memory Write
    		 5473

    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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