Instances AWS EC2 c8i.metal-96xl c8i.metal-96xl
c8i.metal-96xl is an AWS EC2 instance with 384 vCPUs, 768 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $17.992 per hour on demand ($13,134.38 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $2.87 per hour. It is sold in 21 regions; the cheapest is Asia Pacific (Malaysia) at $17.633 per hour.
USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.
Prices by operating system in US East (N. Virginia) Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $17.992 – – SUSE $18.117 – – Ubuntu Pro $18.664 – – RHEL $21.679 – – Linux SQL Web $24.482 – – RHEL HA $25.711 – – RHEL SQL Web $28.168 – – Windows $35.656 – – Windows SQL Web $42.146 – – Linux SQL Std $64.072 – – RHEL SQL Std $67.759 – – RHEL HA SQL Std $71.791 – – Windows SQL Std $81.736 – – Linux SQL Ent $161.99 – – RHEL SQL Ent $165.68 – – RHEL HA SQL Ent $169.71 – – Windows SQL Ent $179.66 – –
Compute Value vCPUs 384 Physical cores 192 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) 768
Networking Value Network 100 Gbps Network baseline 100 Gbps Network peak 100 Gbps Enhanced networking Yes (ENA) EFA Yes IPv6 Yes Max network interfaces 24 IPv4 addresses per interface 64
Storage Value Storage EBS only EBS optimized Yes EBS over NVMe Required EBS throughput 80000 Mbps EBS baseline bandwidth 80,000 Mbps EBS max bandwidth 80,000 Mbps EBS baseline throughput 10,000 MB/s EBS max throughput 10,000 MB/s EBS baseline IOPS 480,000 EBS max IOPS 480,000 Max EBS volumes 79
Instance details Value Instance type c8i.metal-96xl Family c8i Category Compute optimized Current generation Yes Normalization factor 768 Bare metal Yes Placement groups Cluster, Partition, Spread Hibernation No Nitro Enclaves No Boot modes Legacy BIOS
Compute and memory optimized
With or without local disk and networking
Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS EC2 instances .