db.m8a.48xlarge

db.m8a.48xlarge is an AWS RDS size with 192 vCPUs, 768 GiB memory (5th Generation AMD EPYC). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $20.63 per hour on demand ($15,060.19 per month) for PostgreSQL, Single-AZ; a 1-year Database Savings Plan costs $16.504 per hour, 20% less. It is sold in 9 regions.

Prices by region

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

Region	On-demand	1-yr savings plan
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$20.63	$16.504
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$20.63	$16.504
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$20.63	$16.504
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2	$22.838	$18.271
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$22.838	$18.271
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$24.576	$19.661
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$28.637	$22.909
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1	$29.338	$23.47
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2	$29.338	$23.47

Reserved and Savings Plans

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

Option	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
PostgreSQL · Single-AZ	$20.63	–	–
PostgreSQL · Multi-AZ	$41.261	–	–
MariaDB · Single-AZ	$20.63	–	–
MySQL · Single-AZ	$20.63	–	–
MariaDB · Multi-AZ	$41.261	–	–
MySQL · Multi-AZ	$41.261	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	192
Physical cores	192
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	5th Generation AMD EPYC
CPU maker	AMD
Sustained clock	4.5 GHz
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	768

Networking	Value
Network	75 Gbps
Network baseline	75 Gbps
Network peak	75 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	EBS Only
EBS baseline bandwidth	60,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	60,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	7,500 MB/s
EBS max throughput	7,500 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	240,000
EBS max IOPS	240,000

Instance details	Value
Instance type	db.m8a.48xlarge
Family	m8a
Category	General purpose
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	768

Other	Value
Hardware Basis	m8a.48xlarge

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Other m8a sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
db.m8a.large	2	8	$0.2149
db.m8a.xlarge	4	16	$0.4298
db.m8a.2xlarge	8	32	$0.8596
db.m8a.4xlarge	8	64	$1.719
db.m8a.8xlarge	32	128	$3.438
db.m8a.16xlarge	32	256	$6.877
db.m8a.12xlarge	48	192	$5.158
db.m8a.24xlarge	96	384	$10.315
db.m8a.48xlarge	192	768	$20.63

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