u-3tb1.56xlarge

u-3tb1.56xlarge is an AWS EC2 instance with 224 vCPUs, 3072 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Scalable (Skylake)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $27.30 per hour on demand ($19,929.00 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $16.823 per hour, 38% less. 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	1-yr reserved	3-yr reserved	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$27.30	$16.823	$8.771	$20.18	$10.526
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$27.30	$16.823	$8.771	$20.18	$10.526
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$27.30	$16.823	$8.771	$20.18	$10.526
Canada (Central) ca-central-1	$29.90	$18.426	$9.607	$22.102	$11.528
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$30.55	$18.826	$9.816	$22.583	$11.779
EU (Milan) eu-south-1	$32.078	$19.768	$10.306	$23.712	$12.368
EU (Paris) eu-west-3	$32.078	$19.768	$10.306	$23.712	$12.368
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$32.715	$20.16	$10.511	$24.183	$12.614
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$32.717	$20.161	$10.512	$24.184	$12.614
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$32.93	$20.293	$10.58	$24.342	$12.697
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$32.933	$20.295	$10.582	$24.344	$12.698
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$32.934	$20.295	$10.582	$24.344	$12.698
Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1	$36.227	$22.325	$11.64	$26.779	$13.968
Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2	$36.227	$22.325	$11.64	$26.779	$13.968
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$43.55	$26.837	$13.993	$32.192	$16.791

Reserved and Savings Plans 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	$27.30	$16.823	$8.771
SUSE	$27.425	$16.884	$8.825
Ubuntu Pro	$27.692	–	–
RHEL	$29.45	$18.974	$10.922
Linux SQL Web	$31.086	$20.609	$12.557
RHEL HA	$31.802	$21.326	$13.274
RHEL SQL Web	$33.236	–	–
Windows	$37.604	$27.128	$19.076
Windows SQL Web	$41.39	$30.913	$22.861
Linux SQL Std	$54.18	$43.703	$35.651
RHEL SQL Std	$56.33	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Std	$58.682	–	–
Windows SQL Std	$64.484	$54.008	$45.956
Linux SQL Ent	$111.30	$100.82	$92.772
RHEL SQL Ent	$113.45	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Ent	$115.80	–	–
Windows SQL Ent	$121.60	$111.13	$103.08

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	224
Physical cores	112
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Scalable (Skylake)
CPU maker	Intel
Clock speed	2.1 GHz
Sustained clock	2.1 GHz
Processor features	AVX2; Intel AVX; Intel AVX2
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	3072

Networking	Value
Network	50 Gbps
Network baseline	50 Gbps
Network peak	50 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	19000 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	27

Instance details	Value
Instance type	u-3tb1.56xlarge
Family	u-3tb1
Category	Memory optimized
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	448
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Nitro
Placement groups	Cluster, Partition, Spread
Hibernation	No
Nitro Enclaves	No
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS

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