db.r4.8xlarge

db.r4.8xlarge is an Amazon Neptune size with 32 vCPUs, 244 GiB memory (Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $5.568 per hour on demand ($4,064.64 per month) for Standard storage. It is sold in 13 regions.

Prices by region

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

Region	On-demand
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$5.568
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$5.568
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$5.568
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$6.144
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1	$6.34
EU (London) eu-west-2	$6.528
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$6.72
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2	$6.72
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$6.72
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$6.72
Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4	$6.72
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$6.72
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$6.72

Prices by storage and deployment in US East (N. Virginia)

Option	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Standard storage	$5.568	–	–
I/O-Optimized storage	$7.516	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	32
Physical cores	16
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
CPU maker	Intel
Sustained clock	2.3 GHz
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	244

Networking	Value
Network	10 Gbps
Network baseline	12 Gbps
Network peak	12 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	EBS Only

Instance details	Value
Instance type	db.r4.8xlarge
Family	r4
Category	Memory optimized
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	83.2

Other	Value
Hardware Basis	r4.8xlarge

Compare db.r4.8xlarge

Other generations

vs db.r5.8xlarge

Other r4 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
db.r4.large	2	15.25	$0.348
db.r4.xlarge	4	30.5	$0.696
db.r4.2xlarge	8	61	$1.392
db.r4.4xlarge	16	122	$2.784
db.r4.8xlarge	32	244	$5.568

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all Amazon Neptune sizes.