x8g.16xlarge

x8g.16xlarge is an AWS EC2 instance with 64 vCPUs, 1024 GiB memory (AWS Graviton4 Processor). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $6.253 per hour on demand ($4,564.54 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $3.853 per hour, 38% less. Spot capacity is about $2.851 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	$6.253	$2.851	$3.853	$2.136	$4.624	$2.563
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$6.253	$1.729	$3.853	$2.136	$4.624	$2.563
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$6.253	$2.437	$3.853	$2.136	$4.624	$2.563
EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1	$7.119	$0.7119	$4.38	$2.426	$5.262	$2.916
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$7.488	$1.976	$4.614	$2.557	$5.537	$3.069
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$7.503	$1.013	$4.624	$2.563	$5.549	$3.076
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$8.739	$1.596	$5.377	$2.978	$6.46	$3.58

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	$6.253	$3.853	$2.136
Ubuntu Pro	$6.365	–	–
SUSE	$6.378	$3.913	$2.19
RHEL	$6.944	$4.545	$2.827
RHEL HA	$7.84	$5.441	$3.723

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	64
Physical cores	64
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)	1024

Networking	Value
Network	30 Gbps
Network baseline	30 Gbps
Network peak	30 Gbps
Enhanced networking	Yes (ENA)
EFA	No
IPv6	Yes
Max network interfaces	15
IPv4 addresses per interface	50

Storage	Value
Storage	EBS only
EBS optimized	Yes
EBS over NVMe	Required
EBS throughput	20 Gbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	20,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	20,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	2,500 MB/s
EBS max throughput	2,500 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	80,000
EBS max IOPS	80,000
Max EBS volumes	48

Instance details	Value
Instance type	x8g.16xlarge
Family	x8g
Category	Memory optimized
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	128
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Nitro
Placement groups	Cluster, Partition, Spread
Hibernation	No
Nitro Enclaves	Yes
Boot modes	UEFI

Compare x8g.16xlarge

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.