AWS Amazon EC2

hs1.8xlarge

Prev Gen

Part of the HS1 Storage Optimized family — High, sequential read/write access to large local datasets.

Name:hsHigh Storage (Previous Gen)11st Generation8xlarge8 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$5.5200/ hr

~$4,029.60/mo · lowest in AWS GovCloud (US-West), us-gov-west-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$2.0920/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −62% vs on-demand rate (us-gov-west-1)

Per unit

$0.3450/ vCPU-hr

$0.0472/GB-hr

Compute

16vCPUs

16 threads • x86_64

Memory

117GB

7.3 GB / vCPU

Network

10 Gbps

Standard

Storage & EBS

48,000 GB HDD

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to hs1.8xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4). hs1.8xlarge isn't sold in any region that has a Google Cloud counterpart, so this compares Northern Virginia, where it isn't sold either.

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs hs1.8xlarge
hs1.8xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	16 vCPU · 117 GiB	Not offered	—
z4m-highmem-1616 vCPU and 122 GiB for 16 vCPU and 117 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both	16 vCPU · 122 GiB	$1.095165/hr	—
c4-highmem-16-lssd16 vCPU and 124 GiB for 16 vCPU and 117 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both	16 vCPU · 124 GiB	$1.207096/hr	—
c4-highmem-1616 vCPU and 124 GiB for 16 vCPU and 117 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; local disk on hs1.8xlarge only	16 vCPU · 124 GiB	$1.042712/hr	—

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 E5-2650

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads16 vCPUs

Physical Cores—

Clock Speed2 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare Metal—

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark ScoreNot benchmarked

CoreMark / vCPU—

FFmpeg Transcoding—

CoreMark per Dollar—

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.3450

Cost per GB-hr$0.0472

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods—

Max ENIs—

IPv4/v6 per ENI—

Total Addressable IPs—

CNI Prefix Delegation—

Networking & Bandwidth

Network Performance10 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth—

Burst / Peak Bandwidth—

Enhanced NetworkingNo

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationHDD (48000 GB)

Local NVMe Disk48,000 GB HDD

EBS Baseline Throughput—

EBS Max Throughput—

EBS Baseline IOPS—

EBS Max / Burst IOPS—

Dedicated EBS Throughput1 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / System—

Nitro Enclaves—

Normalization Factor64

Generation StatusPrevious Generation

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$5.5200/ hr

AWS GovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1)

Highest Price Region

$5.5200/ hr

AWS GovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1)

Global Fleet Average

$5.5200/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

1regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 1 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West) Lowest	$5.5200

Windows — Available in all 1 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West) Lowest	$6.1260

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 AWS GovCloud (US-West) (us-gov-west-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for hs1.8xlarge on Linux is 38% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 38% 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.