AWS Amazon EC2

i3.xlarge

Part of the I3 Storage Optimized family — High, sequential read/write access to large local datasets.

Name:iStorage Optimized (High I/O NVMe)33rd GenerationxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.3120/ hr

~$227.76/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.1740/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −44% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0780/ vCPU-hr

$0.0102/GB-hr

Compute

4vCPUs

2 cores • x86_64

Memory

31GB

7.6 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 10 Gbps

Baseline: 1.25 Gbps

Storage & EBS

106.25MB/s

Max: 6,000 IOPS

Alternatives to i3.xlarge

Option	Price vs i3.xlarge	Why look at it
i3en.xlarge Compare →	+45%+$0.14/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Different family variant, 32 GiB RAM instead of 30.5, same vCPU
i4i.xlarge Compare →	+10%+$0.031/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, 32 GiB RAM instead of 30.5, same vCPU
i4g.xlarge Compare →	-1%-$0.0031/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), newer generation, 32 GiB RAM instead of 30.5, same vCPU

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to i3.xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs i3.xlarge
i3.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	4 vCPU · 30.5 GiB	$0.3120/hr	—
c4-highmem-4-lssd4 vCPU and 31 GiB for 4 vCPU and 30.5 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 31 GiB	$0.34287/hr	9.9% more
c4-highmem-44 vCPU and 31 GiB for 4 vCPU and 30.5 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; local disk on i3.xlarge only	4 vCPU · 31 GiB	$0.260678/hr	16% less
n4-highmem-44 vCPU and 32 GiB for 4 vCPU and 30.5 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; local disk on i3.xlarge only	4 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.23804/hr	24% 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 E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores2

Clock Speed2.3 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score52,722

CoreMark / vCPU13,180.4 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding17 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar168,981 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0780

Cost per GB-hr$0.0102

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods58 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI15

Total Addressable IPs60 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 10 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth1.25 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationNVMe SSD (950 GB)

Local NVMe Disk950 GB NVMe SSD

EBS Baseline Throughput106.25 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput106.25 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS6,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS6,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput850 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor8

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.3120/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.4980/ hr

South America (Sao Paulo) (sa-east-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.3665/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

30regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 30 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.4100
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$0.4120
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$0.3540
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$0.3740
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	$0.3740
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.3540
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.3660
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.3660
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.3740
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.3740
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.3660
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.3760
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.3760
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.3440
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.3720
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.3440
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.3620
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$0.3620
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.3620
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$0.3260
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.3440
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$0.4090
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$0.3610
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$0.3780
me-central-1 Middle East (UAE)	$0.3780
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.4980
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.3120
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.3120
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.3440
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.3120

Windows — Available in all 30 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.5940
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$0.5960
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$0.5380
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$0.5580
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	$0.5580
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.5380
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.5500
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.5500
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.5580
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.5580
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.5500
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.5600
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.5600
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.5280
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.5560
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.5280
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.5460
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$0.5460
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.5460
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$0.5100
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.5280
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$0.5930
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$0.5450
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$0.5620
me-central-1 Middle East (UAE)	$0.5620
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.6820
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.4960
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.4960
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.5280
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.4960

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 i3.xlarge on Linux is 56% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 56% 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.