AWS Amazon EC2

r5ad.8xlarge

Part of the R5AD Memory Optimized family — High memory-to-vCPU ratio for memory-intensive applications.

Name:rMemory Optimized55th GenerationaAMD EPYCdDirect-Attached NVMe SSD8xlarge8 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$1.3290/ hr

~$970.17/mo · lowest in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), ap-south-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.6850/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −48% vs on-demand rate (ap-south-1)

Per unit

$0.0415/ vCPU-hr

$0.0052/GB-hr

Compute

32vCPUs

16 cores • x86_64

Memory

256GB

8.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 10 Gbps

Baseline: 7.5 Gbps

Storage & EBS

593.75MB/s

Max: 20,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to r5ad.8xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs r5ad.8xlarge
r5ad.8xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	32 vCPU · 256 GiB	$2.0960/hr	—
n4d-highmem-32same 32 vCPU and 256 GiB; AMD on both; local disk on r5ad.8xlarge only	32 vCPU · 256 GiB	$1.77888/hr	15% less
n2d-highmem-32same 32 vCPU and 256 GiB; AMD on both; local disk on r5ad.8xlarge only	32 vCPU · 256 GiB	$2.053888/hr	2.0% less
c2d-highmem-32same 32 vCPU and 256 GiB; AMD on both; local disk on r5ad.8xlarge only	32 vCPU · 256 GiB	$2.20672/hr	5.3% more

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

ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads32 vCPUs

Physical Cores16

Clock Speed2.5 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score399,052

CoreMark / vCPU12,470.4 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding100 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar300,265 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0415

Cost per GB-hr$0.0052

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods234 pods

Max ENIs8

IPv4/v6 per ENI30

Total Addressable IPs240 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 10 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth7.5 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationNVMe SSD (1200 GB)

Local NVMe Disk1,200 GB NVMe SSD

EBS Baseline Throughput593.75 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput593.75 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS20,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS20,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput3500 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor64

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$1.3290/ hr

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)

Highest Price Region

$3.3280/ hr

South America (Sao Paulo) (sa-east-1)

Global Fleet Average

$2.3801/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

16regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Lowest	$1.3290
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$2.5280
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$2.5440
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$2.5440
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$2.5440
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$2.5280
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$2.3040
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$2.5280
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$2.3360
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$2.4640
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$2.4480
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$3.3280
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)	$2.0960
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)	$2.0960
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$2.3680
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)	$2.0960

Windows — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Lowest	$2.8010
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$4.0000
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$4.0160
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$4.0160
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$4.0160
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$4.0000
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$3.7760
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$4.0000
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$3.8080
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$3.9360
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$3.9200
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$4.8000
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)	$3.5680
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)	$3.5680
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$3.8400
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)	$3.5680

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 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for r5ad.8xlarge on Linux is 52% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 52% 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.