AWS Amazon EC2

d3.8xlarge

Part of the D3 Storage Optimized family — High, sequential read/write access to large local datasets.

Name:dStorage Optimized (Dense HDD)33rd Generation8xlarge8 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$3.9955/ hr

~$2,916.73/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$2.07128/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −48% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.1249/ vCPU-hr

$0.0156/GB-hr

Compute

32vCPUs

16 cores • x86_64

Memory

256GB

8.0 GB / vCPU

Network

25 Gbps

Baseline: 25 Gbps

Storage & EBS

625MB/s

Max: 30,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to d3.8xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs d3.8xlarge
d3.8xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	32 vCPU · 256 GiB	$3.99552/hr	—
z3-highmem-32-highlssdsame 32 vCPU and 256 GiB; Intel on both	32 vCPU · 256 GiB	$3.45704/hr	13% less
n4-highmem-32same 32 vCPU and 256 GiB; Intel on both; local disk on d3.8xlarge only	32 vCPU · 256 GiB	$1.90432/hr	52% less
n2-highmem-32same 32 vCPU and 256 GiB; Intel on both; local disk on d3.8xlarge only	32 vCPU · 256 GiB	$2.360736/hr	41% less

Matched on vCPU and memory, then CPU vendor, then rate; a larger size is offered only when nothing is the same size. On-demand Linux only: Spot and commitments work differently on the two clouds, so they aren't compared here.

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads32 vCPUs

Physical Cores16

Clock Speed3.1 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score468,087

CoreMark / vCPU14,627.7 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding134 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar117,153 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.1249

Cost per GB-hr$0.0156

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods59 pods

Max ENIs3

IPv4/v6 per ENI20

Total Addressable IPs60 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network Performance25 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth25 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth25 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationHDD (48000 GB)

Local NVMe Disk48,000 GB HDD

EBS Baseline Throughput625 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput625 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS30,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS30,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput5000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor64

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$3.9955/ hr

US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)

Highest Price Region

$5.7934/ hr

Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1)

Global Fleet Average

$4.8306/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

15regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 15 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$4.1890
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$5.0081
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$5.0081
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Highest	$5.7934
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$4.7878
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$4.4011
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$5.2645
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$4.8745
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$5.1182
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$5.1182
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$5.7910
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$5.1182
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$3.9955
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$3.9955
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$3.9955

Windows — Available in all 15 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$5.6610
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$6.4801
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$6.4801
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Highest	$7.2654
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$6.2598
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$5.8731
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$6.7365
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$6.3465
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$6.5902
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$6.5902
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$7.2630
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$6.5902
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$5.4675
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$5.4675
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$5.4675

Savings Plans: what to know

A Savings Plan commits you to a dollar amount per hour of spend for one or three years, not to an instance: usage up to that amount is billed at the plan's rates and the rest at on-demand, and unused commitment is still billed.
A Compute Savings Plan follows your usage across instance families, sizes, regions and operating systems; an EC2 Instance Savings Plan is locked to one family in one region in exchange for a lower rate (what that flexibility costs).
In US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for d3.8xlarge on Linux is 52% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 52% of the hours for the commitment to cost less than on-demand.
On Windows a plan discounts only the compute part of the rate: the Windows license part costs the same as on demand, so the percentage off is smaller than on Linux.
Rates are AWS's effective hourly rate for each payment option; All Upfront pays the whole term's commitment at purchase, which is why its hourly rate is lower; Partial Upfront (at least half up front) isn't shown on this page. The Savings Plans calculator has all three and sizes a commitment for this instance or a mix of them. How AWS applies a plan each hour: how Compute Savings Plans decide what they cover. Sizing one for elastic workloads: managing Compute Savings Plans.