AWS Amazon EC2

h1.8xlarge

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

Name:hStorage Optimized (High Throughput HDD)11st Generation8xlarge8 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$1.8720/ hr

~$1,366.56/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$1.0400/ 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

32vCPUs

16 cores • x86_64

Memory

128GB

4.0 GB / vCPU

Network

10 Gbps

Baseline: 12 Gbps

Storage & EBS

875MB/s

Max: 40,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to h1.8xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs h1.8xlarge
h1.8xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	32 vCPU · 128 GiB	$1.8720/hr	—
n4-standard-32same 32 vCPU and 128 GiB; Intel on both; local disk on h1.8xlarge only	32 vCPU · 128 GiB	$1.4512/hr	22% less
n2-standard-32same 32 vCPU and 128 GiB; Intel on both; local disk on h1.8xlarge only	32 vCPU · 128 GiB	$1.750048/hr	6.5% less
e2-standard-32same 32 vCPU and 128 GiB; Intel vs Intel or AMD; local disk on h1.8xlarge only	32 vCPU · 128 GiB	$1.207533/hr	35% 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 / Threads32 vCPUs

Physical Cores16

Clock Speed2.3 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score559,538

CoreMark / vCPU17,485.6 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding177 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar298,899 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0585

Cost per GB-hr$0.0146

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 Bandwidth12 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth12 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationHDD (8000 GB)

Local NVMe Disk8,000 GB HDD

EBS Baseline Throughput875 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput875 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS40,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS40,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput7000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor64

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$1.8720/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$2.0760/ hr

EU (Ireland) (eu-west-1)

Global Fleet Average

$1.9230/ 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	$2.0760
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$1.8720
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$1.8720
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$1.8720

Windows — Available in all 4 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Highest	$3.5480
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$3.3440
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$3.3440
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$3.3440

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 h1.8xlarge 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.