d3.8xlarge
Amazon EC2 D3 and D3en instances provide cost-effective, high capacity local storage-per-vCPU for massively-scaled storage workloads.
The d3.8xlarge is a aws ec2 instance type featuring multiple vCPUs and optimized memory, commonly used for ec2 workloads.
Last updated at Tue May 26 2026
Instance Info
| Compute | Value |
| vCPUs | 32 |
| Memory | 256 GiB |
| Physical Processor | Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake) |
| Clock Speed | 3.1 GHz |
| CPU Architecture | 64-bit |
| GPU Memory | NA |
| Network | Value |
| Network Performance | 25 Gigabit |
| Enhanced Networking | Yes |
| Storage | Value |
| Storage | 24 x 2000 HDD |
| EBS Throughput | 5000 Mbps |
| Amazon | Value |
| Current Generation | Yes |
| Instance Type | d3.8xlarge |
| Family | Storage optimized |
Family Instances
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| d3.xlarge | 4 | 32 |
| d3.2xlarge | 8 | 64 |
| d3.4xlarge | 16 | 128 |
| d3.8xlarge | 32 | 256 |
Related Instances
| Instance | vCPUs | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| r8a.8xlarge | 32 | 256 GiB |
| r8g.8xlarge | 32 | 256 GiB |
| r8gb.8xlarge | 32 | 256 GiB |
| i8g.8xlarge | 32 | 256 GiB |
| r8gd.8xlarge | 32 | 256 GiB |
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