m8a.metal-48xl

m8a.metal-48xl is an AWS EC2 instance with 192 vCPUs, 768 GiB memory (AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $11.685 per hour on demand ($8,530.12 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $1.169 per hour. It is sold in 10 regions.

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
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$11.685$1.169$8.585$5.926
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$11.685$2.928$8.585$5.926
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$11.685$3.274$8.585$5.926
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$12.293$1.229$9.073$6.178
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$12.294$2.012$9.074$6.179
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$13.023$1.302$9.885$6.842
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$13.023$3.742$9.886$6.843
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$13.997$2.332$10.672$7.28
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$14.727–$11.643$7.706
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$15.093$2.729$11.432$7.841
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$11.685––
SUSE$11.81––
Ubuntu Pro$12.021––
RHEL$13.528––
Linux SQL Web$14.93––
RHEL HA$15.544––
RHEL SQL Web$16.773––
Windows$20.517––
Windows SQL Web$23.762––
Linux SQL Std$34.725––
RHEL SQL Std$36.568––
RHEL HA SQL Std$38.584––
Windows SQL Std$43.557––
Linux SQL Ent$83.685––
RHEL SQL Ent$85.528––
RHEL HA SQL Ent$87.544––
Windows SQL Ent$92.517––

Specs

ComputeValue
vCPUs192
Physical cores192
Threads per core1
Architecturex86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 Processor
CPU makerAMD
Clock speedUp to 4.5 GHz
Sustained clock4.5 GHz
Processor featuresAMD Turbo; AVX; AVX2; AVX512
BurstableNo
MemoryValue
Memory (GiB)768
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 volumes79
Instance detailsValue
Instance typem8a.metal-48xl
Familym8a
CategoryGeneral purpose
Current generationYes
Normalization factor384
Bare metalYes
Placement groupsCluster, Partition, Spread
HibernationNo
Nitro EnclavesNo
Boot modesLegacy BIOS

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Other m8a sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)On-demand /hr
m8a.medium14$0.0609
m8a.large28$0.1217
m8a.xlarge416$0.2434
m8a.2xlarge832$0.4869
m8a.4xlarge1664$0.9738
m8a.8xlarge32128$1.948
m8a.12xlarge48192$2.921
m8a.16xlarge64256$3.895
m8a.24xlarge96384$5.843
m8a.metal-24xl96384$5.843
m8a.48xlarge192768$11.685
m8a.metal-48xl192768$11.685

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