r6gd.8xlarge.search

r6gd.8xlarge.search is an AWS OpenSearch size with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB memory. In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $3.06 per hour on demand ($2,233.80 per month); a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $2.111 per hour, 31% less. It is sold in 15 regions; the cheapest is Asia Pacific (Mumbai) at $1.984 per hour.

Prices by region

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

Region	On-demand	1-yr reserved	3-yr reserved
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1	$1.984	$1.369	$1.032
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$3.06	$2.111	$1.591
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$3.06	$2.111	$1.591
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$3.06	$2.111	$1.591
Canada (Central) ca-central-1	$3.357	$2.316	$1.746
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$3.40	$2.346	$1.768
US West (N. California) us-west-1	$3.453	$2.383	$1.796
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$3.543	$2.445	$1.842
Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3	$3.564	$2.459	$1.853
EU (Paris) eu-west-3	$3.591	$2.478	$1.867
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$3.665	$2.529	$1.906
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$3.692	$2.547	$1.92
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$3.692	$2.547	$1.92
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$3.692	$2.547	$1.92
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$4.845	$3.343	$2.519

Reserved and Savings Plans

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	32
Physical cores	32
Threads per core	1
Architecture	arm64
CPU maker	AWS
Sustained clock	2.5 GHz
Burstable	No
ECU	variable

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	256

Networking	Value
Network baseline	12 Gbps
Network peak	12 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
Local disks	1 × 1,900 GB SSD
EBS baseline bandwidth	9,500 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	9,500 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	1,187.5 MB/s
EBS max throughput	1,187.5 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	40,000
EBS max IOPS	40,000

Cluster	Value
Node roles	Data, Dedicated manager
UltraWarm	Yes

Instance details	Value
Instance type	r6gd.8xlarge.search
Family	r6gd
Category	Memory optimized
Current generation	Yes

Other	Value
Hardware Basis	r6gd.8xlarge

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Other r6gd sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
r6gd.large.search	2	16	$0.191
r6gd.xlarge.search	4	32	$0.382
r6gd.2xlarge.search	8	64	$0.765
r6gd.4xlarge.search	16	128	$1.53
r6gd.8xlarge.search	32	256	$3.06
r6gd.12xlarge.search	48	384	$4.59
r6gd.16xlarge.search	64	512	$6.119

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