AWS Amazon EC2

h1.2xlarge

Part of the H1 Storage Optimized family — High, sequential read/write access to large local datasets.

Name:hStorage Optimized (High Throughput HDD)11st Generation2xlarge2 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$0.4680/ hr

~$341.64/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.2600/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −44% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0585/ vCPU-hr

$0.0146/GB-hr

Compute

8vCPUs

4 cores • x86_64

Memory

32GB

4.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 10 Gbps

Baseline: 2.5 Gbps

Storage & EBS

218.75MB/s

Max: 12,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to h1.2xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs h1.2xlarge
h1.2xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	8 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.4680/hr	—
c3-standard-8-lssdsame 8 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both	8 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.493627/hr	5.5% more
n4-standard-8same 8 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both; local disk on h1.2xlarge only	8 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.3628/hr	22% less
c3-standard-8same 8 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both; local disk on h1.2xlarge only	8 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.403216/hr	14% 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 E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads8 vCPUs

Physical Cores4

Clock Speed2.3 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score119,790

CoreMark / vCPU14,973.8 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding47 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar255,962 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0585

Cost per GB-hr$0.0146

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods58 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI15

Total Addressable IPs60 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 10 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth2.5 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationHDD (2000 GB)

Local NVMe Disk2,000 GB HDD

EBS Baseline Throughput218.75 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput218.75 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS12,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS12,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput1750 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor16

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.4680/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.5190/ hr

EU (Ireland) (eu-west-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.4808/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

4regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 4 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Highest	$0.5190
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.4680
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.4680
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.4680

Windows — Available in all 4 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Highest	$0.8870
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.8360
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.8360
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.8360

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 US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for h1.2xlarge on Linux is 56% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 56% 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.