AWS Amazon EC2

d2.8xlarge

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Part of the D2 Storage Optimized family — High, sequential read/write access to large local datasets.

Name:dStorage Optimized (Dense HDD)22nd Generation8xlarge8 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$5.5200/ hr

~$4,029.60/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$2.8200/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −49% vs on-demand rate (eu-north-1)

Per unit

$0.1533/ vCPU-hr

$0.0226/GB-hr

Compute

36vCPUs

18 cores • x86_64

Memory

244GB

6.8 GB / vCPU

Network

10 Gbps

Baseline: 10 Gbps

Storage & EBS

500MB/s

Max: 32,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to d2.8xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs d2.8xlarge
d2.8xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	36 vCPU · 244 GiB	$5.5200/hr	—
z3-highmem-44-standardlssd44 vCPU and 352 GiB for 36 vCPU and 244 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 18 physical cores vs 22	44 vCPU · 352 GiB	$4.65069/hr	16% less
z3-highmem-44-highlssd44 vCPU and 352 GiB for 36 vCPU and 244 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 18 physical cores vs 22	44 vCPU · 352 GiB	$4.773977/hr	14% less
c3-highmem-4444 vCPU and 352 GiB for 36 vCPU and 244 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 18 physical cores vs 22; local disk on d2.8xlarge only	44 vCPU · 352 GiB	$2.910776/hr	47% less

Matched on vCPU and memory, then CPU vendor, then rate; a larger size is offered only when nothing is the same size. On-demand Linux only: Spot and commitments work differently on the two clouds, so they aren't compared here.

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads36 vCPUs

Physical Cores18

Clock Speed2.4 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score543,205

CoreMark / vCPU15,089 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding141 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar98,407 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.1533

Cost per GB-hr$0.0226

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods234 pods

Max ENIs8

IPv4/v6 per ENI30

Total Addressable IPs240 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network Performance10 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth10 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationHDD (48000 GB)

Local NVMe Disk48,000 GB HDD

EBS Baseline Throughput500 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput500 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS32,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS32,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput4000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor64

Generation StatusPrevious Generation

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$5.5200/ hr

US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)

Highest Price Region

$7.6560/ hr

Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) (ap-east-1)

Global Fleet Average

$6.3811/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

22regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 22 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$7.0000
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Highest	$7.6560
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$6.6120
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$6.7520
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$6.7520
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$6.9600
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$6.9600
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$6.7520
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$6.6240
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$6.6240
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$6.0720
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$6.3520
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$5.8800
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$6.1740
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$6.1760
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$6.1760
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$5.5840
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$6.4680
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$5.5200
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$5.5200
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$6.2500
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$5.5200

Windows — Available in all 22 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$8.6560
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Highest	$9.3120
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$8.2680
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$8.4080
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$8.4080
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$7.6380
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$7.6380
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$7.4300
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$8.2800
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$7.9560
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$7.7280
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$7.0300
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$6.5580
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$7.8300
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$7.8320
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$7.8320
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$7.2400
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$8.1240
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$6.1980
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$6.1980
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$7.9060
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$6.1980

Savings Plans: what to know

A Savings Plan commits you to a dollar amount per hour of spend for one or three years, not to an instance: usage up to that amount is billed at the plan's rates and the rest at on-demand, and unused commitment is still billed.
A Compute Savings Plan follows your usage across instance families, sizes, regions and operating systems; an EC2 Instance Savings Plan is locked to one family in one region in exchange for a lower rate (what that flexibility costs).
In EU (Stockholm) (eu-north-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for d2.8xlarge on Linux is 51% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 51% of the hours for the commitment to cost less than on-demand.
On Windows a plan discounts only the compute part of the rate: the Windows license part costs the same as on demand, so the percentage off is smaller than on Linux.
Rates are AWS's effective hourly rate for each payment option; All Upfront pays the whole term's commitment at purchase, which is why its hourly rate is lower; Partial Upfront (at least half up front) isn't shown on this page. The Savings Plans calculator has all three and sizes a commitment for this instance or a mix of them. How AWS applies a plan each hour: how Compute Savings Plans decide what they cover. Sizing one for elastic workloads: managing Compute Savings Plans.