db.r8a.48xlarge

db.r8a.48xlarge is an AWS RDS size with 192 vCPUs, 1536 GiB memory (5th Generation AMD EPYC). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $28.982 per hour on demand ($21,157.15 per month) for PostgreSQL, Single-AZ; a 1-year Database Savings Plan costs $23.186 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	$28.982	$23.186
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$28.982	$23.186
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$28.982	$23.186
Asia Pacific (Taipei) ap-east-2	$31.296	$25.037
Canada (Central) ca-central-1	$31.296	$25.037
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2	$32.458	$25.966
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$32.458	$25.966
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$34.781	$27.825
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$35.357	$28.285

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	$28.982	–	–
PostgreSQL · Multi-AZ	$57.965	–	–
MariaDB · Single-AZ	$28.982	–	–
MySQL · Single-AZ	$28.982	–	–
Aurora MySQL · Single-AZ	$33.619	–	–
Aurora PostgreSQL · Single-AZ	$33.619	–	–
Aurora MySQL I/O Optimized · Single-AZ	$43.709	–	–
Aurora PostgreSQL I/O Optimized · Single-AZ	$43.709	–	–
MariaDB · Multi-AZ	$57.965	–	–
MySQL · Multi-AZ	$57.965	–	–

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)	1536

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.r8a.48xlarge
Family	r8a
Category	Memory optimized
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	768

Other	Value
Hardware Basis	r8a.48xlarge

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Other r8a sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
db.r8a.large	2	16	$0.3019
db.r8a.xlarge	4	32	$0.6038
db.r8a.2xlarge	4	64	$1.208
db.r8a.4xlarge	8	128	$2.415
db.r8a.8xlarge	16	256	$4.83
db.r8a.12xlarge	48	384	$7.246
db.r8a.16xlarge	64	512	$9.661
db.r8a.24xlarge	96	768	$14.491
db.r8a.48xlarge	192	1536	$28.982

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