x8g.12xlarge

x8g.12xlarge is an AWS EC2 instance with 48 vCPUs, 768 GiB memory (AWS Graviton4 Processor). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $4.69 per hour on demand ($3,423.41 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $2.89 per hour, 38% less. Spot capacity is about $1.945 per hour. It is sold in 7 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	$4.69	$1.945	$2.89	$1.602	$3.468	$1.923
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$4.69	$0.4947	$2.89	$1.602	$3.468	$1.923
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$4.69	$1.932	$2.89	$1.602	$3.468	$1.923
EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1	$5.339	$0.5339	$3.285	$1.82	$3.947	$2.187
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$5.616	$1.351	$3.46	$1.918	$4.152	$2.302
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$5.628	$0.9147	$3.468	$1.922	$4.162	$2.307
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$6.554	$1.931	$4.033	$2.234	$4.845	$2.685

Reserved and Savings Plans Spot 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	$4.69	$2.89	$1.602
Ubuntu Pro	$4.774	–	–
SUSE	$4.815	$2.95	$1.656
RHEL	$5.208	$3.408	$2.12
RHEL HA	$5.88	$4.08	$2.792

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	48
Physical cores	48
Threads per core	1
Architecture	arm64
Processor	AWS Graviton4 Processor
CPU maker	AWS
Clock speed	2.7 GHz
Sustained clock	2.8 GHz
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	768

Networking	Value
Network	22.5 Gbps
Network baseline	22.5 Gbps
Network peak	22.5 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	15 Gbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	15,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	15,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	1,875 MB/s
EBS max throughput	1,875 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	60,000
EBS max IOPS	60,000
Max EBS volumes	32

Instance details	Value
Instance type	x8g.12xlarge
Family	x8g
Category	Memory optimized
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	96
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Nitro
Placement groups	Cluster, Partition, Spread
Hibernation	No
Nitro Enclaves	Yes
Boot modes	UEFI

Compare x8g.12xlarge

Other processors

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Other x8g sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
x8g.medium	1	16	$0.0977
x8g.large	2	32	$0.1954
x8g.xlarge	4	64	$0.3908
x8g.2xlarge	8	128	$0.7816
x8g.4xlarge	16	256	$1.563
x8g.8xlarge	32	512	$3.126
x8g.12xlarge	48	768	$4.69
x8g.16xlarge	64	1024	$6.253
x8g.24xlarge	96	1536	$9.379
x8g.metal-24xl	96	1536	$9.379
x8g.48xlarge	192	3072	$18.758
x8g.metal-48xl	192	3072	$18.758

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