c8i.metal-48xl

c8i.metal-48xl is an AWS EC2 instance with 192 vCPUs, 384 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $8.996 per hour on demand ($6,567.23 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $2.094 per hour. It is sold in 21 regions; the cheapest is Asia Pacific (Malaysia) at $8.817 per hour.

Prices by region

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

RegionOn-demandSpot1-yr savings plan3-yr savings plan
Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5$8.817$4.303$6.692$4.567
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$8.996$6.518$6.857$4.686
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$8.996$6.575$6.994$4.67
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$8.996$2.094$6.501$4.344
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$8.996$0.8996$6.501$4.344
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$8.996$0.8996$6.501$4.344
EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1$9.632$0.9632$7.019$4.828
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$9.652$0.9652$7.377$5.046
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$9.653$2.615$7.376$5.044
Canada (Central) ca-central-1$9.843$6.069$7.468$4.744
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$10.161$1.016$7.735$5.304
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$10.266$1.027$7.814$5.327
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$10.373$3.118$7.873$5.373
EU (London) eu-west-2$10.69$3.631$8.09$5.567
EU (Paris) eu-west-3$10.69$1.069$8.146$5.578
US West (N. California) us-west-1$11.219$1.122$8.56$5.899
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$11.325$1.315$8.598$5.896
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$11.748$11.748$8.613$6.058
Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$12.066$12.066$9.558$6.646
Asia Pacific (New Zealand) ap-southeast-6$12.336–$9.044$6.361
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1$13.865$2.291$10.558$7.19
Reserved and Savings PlansSpot prices by regionWindows prices by regionAzure equivalents

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

Operating systemOn-demand /hr1-yr reserved /hr3-yr reserved /hr
Linux$8.996––
SUSE$9.121––
Ubuntu Pro$9.332––
RHEL$10.839––
Linux SQL Web$12.241––
RHEL HA$12.855––
RHEL SQL Web$14.084––
Windows$17.828––
Windows SQL Web$21.073––
Linux SQL Std$32.036––
RHEL SQL Std$33.879––
RHEL HA SQL Std$35.895––
Windows SQL Std$40.868––
Linux SQL Ent$80.996––
RHEL SQL Ent$82.839––
RHEL HA SQL Ent$84.855––
Windows SQL Ent$89.828––

Specs

ComputeValue
vCPUs192
Physical cores96
Threads per core2
Architecturex86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
CPU makerIntel
Clock speed3.9 GHz
Sustained clock3.9 GHz
Processor featuresIntel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel AVX512; Intel Turbo; Intel AMX
BurstableNo
MemoryValue
Memory (GiB)384
NetworkingValue
Network75 Gbps
Network baseline75 Gbps
Network peak75 Gbps
Enhanced networkingYes (ENA)
EFAYes
IPv6Yes
Max network interfaces24
IPv4 addresses per interface64
StorageValue
StorageEBS only
EBS optimizedYes
EBS over NVMeRequired
EBS throughput60000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth60,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth60,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput7,500 MB/s
EBS max throughput7,500 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS240,000
EBS max IOPS240,000
Max EBS volumes64
Instance detailsValue
Instance typec8i.metal-48xl
Familyc8i
CategoryCompute optimized
Current generationYes
Normalization factor384
Bare metalYes
Placement groupsCluster, Partition, Spread
HibernationNo
Nitro EnclavesNo
Boot modesLegacy BIOS

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Other c8i sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)On-demand /hr
c8i.large24$0.0937
c8i.xlarge48$0.1874
c8i.2xlarge816$0.3748
c8i.4xlarge1632$0.7497
c8i.8xlarge3264$1.499
c8i.12xlarge4896$2.249
c8i.16xlarge64128$2.999
c8i.24xlarge96192$4.498
c8i.32xlarge128256$5.997
c8i.48xlarge192384$8.996
c8i.metal-48xl192384$8.996
c8i.96xlarge384768$17.992
c8i.metal-96xl384768$17.992

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