c8i-flex.8xlarge

c8i-flex.8xlarge is an AWS EC2 instance with 32 vCPUs, 64 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $1.424 per hour on demand ($1,039.74 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.3775 per hour. It is sold in 20 regions; the cheapest is Asia Pacific (Malaysia) at $1.396 per hour.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5	$1.396	$0.4118	$1.06	$0.7231
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1	$1.424	$0.5206	$1.086	$0.742
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2	$1.424	$0.1424	$1.107	$0.7394
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$1.424	$0.3775	$1.029	$0.6877
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$1.424	$0.3747	$1.029	$0.6877
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$1.424	$0.5925	$1.029	$0.6877
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2	$1.528	$0.1731	$1.168	$0.7989
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$1.528	$0.7827	$1.168	$0.7986
Canada (Central) ca-central-1	$1.558	$0.5222	$1.182	$0.7511
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2	$1.609	$0.3493	$1.225	$0.8398
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$1.625	$0.6956	$1.237	$0.8434
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$1.642	$0.6108	$1.247	$0.8507
EU (London) eu-west-2	$1.692	$0.6101	$1.281	$0.8814
EU (Paris) eu-west-3	$1.692	$0.4343	$1.29	$0.8832
US West (N. California) us-west-1	$1.776	$0.6378	$1.355	$0.9341
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$1.793	$0.6522	$1.361	$0.9335
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$1.86	$0.7341	$1.364	$0.9592
Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1	$1.91	$0.5947	$1.513	$1.052
Asia Pacific (New Zealand) ap-southeast-6	$1.953	–	$1.432	$1.007
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$2.195	$0.3792	$1.672	$1.138

Reserved and Savings Plans Spot prices by region Windows prices by region Azure equivalents

Prices by operating system in US East (N. Virginia)

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$1.424	–	–
Ubuntu Pro	$1.48	–	–
SUSE	$1.549	–	–
RHEL	$1.77	–	–
Linux SQL Web	$1.965	–	–
RHEL HA	$2.218	–	–
RHEL SQL Web	$2.311	–	–
Windows	$2.823	–	–
Windows SQL Web	$3.364	–	–
Linux SQL Std	$5.264	–	–
RHEL SQL Std	$5.61	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Std	$6.058	–	–
Windows SQL Std	$6.663	–	–
Linux SQL Ent	$13.424	–	–
RHEL SQL Ent	$13.77	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Ent	$14.218	–	–
Windows SQL Ent	$14.823	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	32
Physical cores	16
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
CPU maker	Intel
Clock speed	3.9 GHz
Sustained clock	3.9 GHz
Processor features	Intel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel AVX512; Intel Turbo; Intel AMX
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	64

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 15 Gbps
Network baseline	7.5 Gbps
Network peak	15 Gbps
Enhanced networking	Yes (ENA)
EFA	No
IPv6	Yes
Max network interfaces	10
IPv4 addresses per interface	50

Storage	Value
Storage	EBS only
EBS optimized	Yes
EBS over NVMe	Required
EBS throughput	Up to 10000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	5,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	10,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	625 MB/s
EBS max throughput	1,250 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	20,000
EBS max IOPS	40,000
Max EBS volumes	32

Instance details	Value
Instance type	c8i-flex.8xlarge
Family	c8i-flex
Category	Compute optimized
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	64
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Nitro
Placement groups	Partition, Spread
Hibernation	Yes
Nitro Enclaves	No
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS, UEFI

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Other c8i-flex sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
c8i-flex.large	2	4	$0.089
c8i-flex.xlarge	4	8	$0.178
c8i-flex.2xlarge	8	16	$0.3561
c8i-flex.4xlarge	16	32	$0.7122
c8i-flex.8xlarge	32	64	$1.424
c8i-flex.12xlarge	48	96	$2.136
c8i-flex.16xlarge	64	128	$2.849

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS EC2 instances.