x8i.4xlarge

x8i.4xlarge is an AWS EC2 instance with 16 vCPUs, 256 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $1.751 per hour on demand ($1,277.94 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.4242 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	$1.751	$0.4242	$1.294	$0.675
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$1.751	$0.315	$1.294	$0.675
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$1.751	$0.5131	$1.294	$0.675
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1	$1.806	$0.5253	$1.335	$0.6964
EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1	$1.996	$0.1996	$1.476	$0.7698
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2	$2.101	$0.2101	$1.553	$0.81
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$2.101	$0.8601	$1.553	$0.81
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$2.101	–	$1.553	$0.81
EU (Milan) eu-south-1	$2.205	$0.384	$1.63	$0.8502
EU (Paris) eu-west-3	$2.206	$0.4613	$1.631	$0.8505
Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5	$2.285	$0.2285	$1.689	$0.8809
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$2.451	$0.7145	$1.812	$0.945
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$2.538	$0.7056	$1.876	$0.9787
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2	$2.538	$0.2538	$1.876	$0.9787
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$2.538	$0.7424	$1.876	$0.9787
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$2.538	$0.7217	$1.876	$0.9787
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$3.414	$0.3414	$2.523	$1.316

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	$1.751	–	–
Ubuntu Pro	$1.779	–	–
SUSE	$1.876	–	–
RHEL	$1.923	–	–
Linux SQL Web	$2.021	–	–
RHEL HA	$2.147	–	–
RHEL SQL Web	$2.194	–	–
Windows	$2.487	–	–
Windows SQL Web	$2.757	–	–
Linux SQL Std	$3.671	–	–
RHEL SQL Std	$3.843	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Std	$4.067	–	–
Windows SQL Std	$4.407	–	–
Linux SQL Ent	$7.751	–	–
RHEL SQL Ent	$7.923	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Ent	$8.147	–	–
Windows SQL Ent	$8.487	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	16
Physical cores	8
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)	256

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 15 Gbps
Network baseline	7.5 Gbps
Network peak	15 Gbps
Enhanced networking	Yes (ENA)
EFA	No
IPv6	Yes
Max network interfaces	8
IPv4 addresses per interface	50

Storage	Value
Storage	EBS only
EBS optimized	Yes
EBS over NVMe	Required
EBS throughput	Up to 10000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	5,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	10,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	625 MB/s
EBS max throughput	1,250 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	20,000
EBS max IOPS	40,000
Max EBS volumes	32

Instance details	Value
Instance type	x8i.4xlarge
Family	x8i
Category	Memory optimized
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	32
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Nitro
Placement groups	Cluster, Partition, Spread
Hibernation	No
Nitro Enclaves	Yes
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS, UEFI

Compare x8i.4xlarge

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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.