x8i.2xlarge

x8i.2xlarge is an AWS EC2 instance with 8 vCPUs, 128 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.8753 per hour on demand ($638.97 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.2564 per hour. It is sold in 17 regions.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$0.8753	$0.2564	$0.647	$0.3375
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$0.8753	$0.1765	$0.647	$0.3375
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$0.8753	$0.2844	$0.647	$0.3375
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1	$0.9031	$0.1592	$0.6676	$0.3482
EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1	$0.9982	$0.0998	$0.7379	$0.3849
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2	$1.05	$0.105	$0.7765	$0.405
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$1.05	$0.4401	$0.7765	$0.405
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$1.05	–	$0.7765	$0.405
EU (Milan) eu-south-1	$1.103	$0.2242	$0.815	$0.4251
EU (Paris) eu-west-3	$1.103	$0.2207	$0.8153	$0.4252
Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5	$1.142	$0.1142	$0.8444	$0.4404
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$1.226	$0.2718	$0.9059	$0.4725
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$1.269	$0.2694	$0.9382	$0.4894
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2	$1.269	$0.1269	$0.9382	$0.4894
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$1.269	$0.2375	$0.9382	$0.4894
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$1.269	$0.3793	$0.9382	$0.4894
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$1.707	$0.1707	$1.262	$0.6581

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	$0.8753	–	–
Ubuntu Pro	$0.8893	–	–
RHEL	$0.9905	–	–
SUSE	$1.00	–	–
Linux SQL Web	$1.01	–	–
RHEL SQL Web	$1.126	–	–
RHEL HA	$1.131	–	–
Windows	$1.243	–	–
Windows SQL Web	$1.379	–	–
Linux SQL Std	$1.835	–	–
RHEL SQL Std	$1.95	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Std	$2.091	–	–
Windows SQL Std	$2.203	–	–
Linux SQL Ent	$3.875	–	–
RHEL SQL Ent	$3.99	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Ent	$4.13	–	–
Windows SQL Ent	$4.243	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	8
Physical cores	4
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
CPU maker	Intel
Clock speed	3.9 GHz
Sustained clock	3.9 GHz
Processor features	Intel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel AVX512; Intel Turbo; Intel AMX
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	128

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 15 Gbps
Network baseline	3.75 Gbps
Network peak	15 Gbps
Enhanced networking	Yes (ENA)
EFA	No
IPv6	Yes
Max network interfaces	4
IPv4 addresses per interface	30

Storage	Value
Storage	EBS only
EBS optimized	Yes
EBS over NVMe	Required
EBS throughput	Up to 10000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	2,500 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	10,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	312.5 MB/s
EBS max throughput	1,250 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	12,000
EBS max IOPS	40,000
Max EBS volumes	32

Instance details	Value
Instance type	x8i.2xlarge
Family	x8i
Category	Memory optimized
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	16
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Nitro
Placement groups	Cluster, Partition, Spread
Hibernation	Yes
Nitro Enclaves	Yes
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS, UEFI

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Other x8i sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
x8i.large	2	32	$0.2188
x8i.xlarge	4	64	$0.4377
x8i.2xlarge	8	128	$0.8753
x8i.4xlarge	16	256	$1.751
x8i.8xlarge	32	512	$3.501
x8i.12xlarge	48	768	$5.252
x8i.16xlarge	64	1024	$7.003
x8i.24xlarge	96	1536	$10.504
x8i.32xlarge	128	2048	$14.005
x8i.48xlarge	192	3072	$21.008
x8i.metal-48xl	192	3072	$21.008
x8i.64xlarge	256	4096	$28.01
x8i.96xlarge	384	6144	$48.744
x8i.metal-96xl	384	6144	$48.744

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