Instances AWS EC2 r5n.8xlarge r5n.8xlarge
r5n.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 $2.384 per hour on demand ($1,740.32 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $1.502 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $0.6119 per hour. It is sold in 21 regions.
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 $2.384 $1.502 $0.966 Ubuntu Pro $2.44 – – SUSE $2.509 $1.562 $1.02 RHEL $2.73 $1.848 $1.311 Linux SQL Web $2.925 $2.043 $1.506 RHEL HA $3.178 $2.296 $1.759 RHEL SQL Web $3.27 – – Windows $3.856 $2.974 $2.438 Windows SQL Web $4.397 $3.515 $2.978 Linux SQL Std $6.224 $5.342 $4.806 RHEL SQL Std $6.57 – – RHEL HA SQL Std $7.018 – – Windows SQL Std $7.696 $6.814 $6.278 Linux SQL Ent $14.384 $13.502 $12.966 RHEL SQL Ent $14.73 – – RHEL HA SQL Ent $15.178 – – Windows SQL Ent $15.856 $14.974 $14.438
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 2.5 GHz Sustained clock 3.1 GHz Processor features Intel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel AVX512; Intel Turbo 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 EBS only 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 27
Instance details Value Instance type r5n.8xlarge Family r5n 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
With or without local disk and networking
Compute and memory optimized
Other generations
Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS EC2 instances .