r5dn.8xlarge

r5dn.8xlarge is an AWS EC2 instance with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $2.672 per hour on demand ($1,950.56 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $1.683 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $0.7899 per hour. It is sold in 15 regions.

Prices by region

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

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr reserved	3-yr reserved	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$2.672	$0.7899	$1.683	$1.088	$1.936	$1.25
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$2.672	$0.7133	$1.683	$1.088	$1.936	$1.25
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$2.672	$1.191	$1.683	$1.088	$1.936	$1.25
EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1	$2.832	$0.3099	$1.784	$1.181	$2.096	$1.358
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$2.976	$1.553	$1.875	$1.244	$2.20	$1.43
EU (Milan) eu-south-1	$3.136	$0.5441	$1.976	$1.307	$2.279	$1.507
EU (Paris) eu-west-3	$3.136	$0.8436	$1.976	$1.311	$2.298	$1.497
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2	$3.184	$1.008	$2.006	$1.327	$2.334	$1.527
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$3.184	$1.514	$2.006	$1.327	$2.357	$1.527
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$3.20	$1.178	$2.016	$1.313	$2.345	$1.51
AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1	$3.216	–	$2.026	$1.313	$2.357	$1.507
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$3.216	–	$2.026	$1.313	$2.357	$1.507
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$3.248	$0.7804	$2.046	$1.365	$2.432	$1.568
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$3.264	$1.20	$2.056	$1.336	$2.392	$1.537
Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1	$3.536	$1.159	$2.228	$1.451	$2.577	$1.707

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	$2.672	$1.683	$1.088
Ubuntu Pro	$2.728	–	–
RHEL	$3.018	$2.029	$1.433
Linux SQL Web	$3.213	$2.224	$1.629
RHEL HA	$3.466	$2.477	$1.881
RHEL SQL Web	$3.558	–	–
Windows	$4.144	$3.155	$2.56
Windows SQL Web	$4.685	$3.696	$3.101
Linux SQL Std	$6.512	$5.523	$4.928
RHEL SQL Std	$6.858	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Std	$7.306	–	–
Windows SQL Std	$7.984	$6.995	$6.40
Linux SQL Ent	$14.672	$13.683	$13.088
RHEL SQL Ent	$15.018	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Ent	$15.466	–	–
Windows SQL Ent	$16.144	$15.155	$14.56

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	32
Physical cores	16
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
CPU maker	Intel
Clock speed	3.1 GHz
Sustained clock	3.1 GHz
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	256

Networking	Value
Network	25 Gbps
Network baseline	25 Gbps
Network peak	25 Gbps
Enhanced networking	Yes (ENA)
EFA	No
IPv6	Yes
Max network interfaces	8
IPv4 addresses per interface	30

Storage	Value
Storage	2 x 600 NVMe SSD
Local disks	2 × 600 GB SSD
EBS optimized	Yes
EBS over NVMe	Required
EBS throughput	5000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	6,800 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	6,800 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	850 MB/s
EBS max throughput	850 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	30,000
EBS max IOPS	30,000
Max EBS volumes	25

Instance details	Value
Instance type	r5dn.8xlarge
Family	r5dn
Category	Memory optimized
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	64
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Nitro
Placement groups	Cluster, Partition, Spread
Hibernation	No
Nitro Enclaves	Yes
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS, UEFI

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Other r5dn sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
r5dn.large	2	16	$0.167
r5dn.xlarge	4	32	$0.334
r5dn.2xlarge	8	64	$0.668
r5dn.4xlarge	16	128	$1.336
r5dn.8xlarge	32	256	$2.672
r5dn.12xlarge	48	384	$4.008
r5dn.16xlarge	64	512	$5.344
r5dn.24xlarge	96	768	$8.016
r5dn.metal	96	768	$8.016

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