g2.8xlarge

g2.8xlarge is an AWS EC2 instance with 32 vCPUs, 60 GiB memory, 4 GPUs (Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $2.60 per hour on demand ($1,898.00 per month) for Linux. It is sold in 9 regions.

Prices by region

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

Region	On-demand
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$2.60
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$2.60
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$2.808
US West (N. California) us-west-1	$2.808
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$3.088
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$3.592
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2	$3.592
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$3.592
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$4.00

Windows prices by region

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

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$2.60	–	–
SUSE	$2.70	–	–
Windows	$2.878	–	–
RHEL	$2.946	–	–
Linux SQL Ent	$14.60	–	–
Windows SQL Ent	$16.072	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	32
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge)
Clock speed	2.6 GHz
Processor features	Intel AVX; Intel Turbo
ECU	104

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	60

Accelerators	Value
GPUs	4

Networking	Value
Network	High

Storage	Value
Storage	2 x 120 SSD

Instance details	Value
Instance type	g2.8xlarge
Family	g2
Category	GPU instance
Current generation	No
Normalization factor	64

Compare g2.8xlarge

Other generations

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Other g2 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
g2.2xlarge	8	15	$0.65
g2.8xlarge	32	60	$2.60

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