r5dn.metal

r5dn.metal is an AWS EC2 instance with 96 vCPUs, 768 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $8.016 per hour on demand ($5,851.68 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $5.05 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $1.272 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	$8.016	$1.272	$5.05	$3.264	$5.808	$3.749
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$8.016	$1.442	$5.05	$3.264	$5.808	$3.749
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$8.016	$2.118	$5.05	$3.264	$5.808	$3.749
EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1	$8.496	$0.8496	$5.353	$3.542	$6.289	$4.074
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$8.928	$2.191	$5.625	$3.732	$6.60	$4.291
EU (Milan) eu-south-1	$9.408	$0.9408	$5.927	$3.922	$6.836	$4.521
EU (Paris) eu-west-3	$9.408	$0.9408	$5.927	$3.932	$6.895	$4.491
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2	$9.552	$1.022	$6.018	$3.982	$7.001	$4.58
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$9.552	$3.043	$6.018	$3.982	$7.071	$4.58
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$9.60	$2.373	$6.048	$3.94	$7.036	$4.531
AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1	$9.648	–	$6.078	$3.939	$7.071	$4.522
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$9.648	–	$6.078	$3.939	$7.071	$4.522
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$9.744	$1.623	$6.139	$4.094	$7.295	$4.704
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$9.792	$3.003	$6.169	$4.008	$7.177	$4.611
Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1	$10.608	$1.061	$6.683	$4.354	$7.73	$5.121

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	$8.016	$5.05	$3.264
SUSE	$8.141	$5.11	$3.318
Ubuntu Pro	$8.184	–	–
RHEL	$9.053	$6.087	$4.301
Linux SQL Web	$9.638	$6.672	$4.886
RHEL HA	$10.397	$7.431	$5.645
RHEL SQL Web	$10.675	–	–
Windows	$12.432	$9.466	$7.68
Windows SQL Web	$14.054	$11.088	$9.302
Linux SQL Std	$19.536	$16.57	$14.784
RHEL SQL Std	$20.573	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Std	$21.917	–	–
Windows SQL Std	$23.952	$20.986	$19.20
Linux SQL Ent	$44.016	$41.05	$39.264
RHEL SQL Ent	$45.053	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Ent	$46.397	–	–
Windows SQL Ent	$48.432	$45.466	$43.68

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	96
Physical cores	48
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)	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	15
IPv4 addresses per interface	50

Storage	Value
Storage	4 x 900 NVMe SSD
Local disks	4 × 900 GB SSD
EBS optimized	Yes
EBS over NVMe	Required
EBS throughput	12000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	19,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	19,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	2,375 MB/s
EBS max throughput	2,375 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	80,000
EBS max IOPS	80,000
Max EBS volumes	31

Instance details	Value
Instance type	r5dn.metal
Family	r5dn
Category	Memory optimized
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	192
Bare metal	Yes
Placement groups	Cluster, Partition, Spread
Hibernation	No
Nitro Enclaves	No
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS

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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.