AWS Amazon EC2

x1.16xlarge

Part of the X1 Memory Optimized family — High memory-to-vCPU ratio for memory-intensive applications.

Name:xExtreme Memory Optimized11st Generation16xlarge16 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$6.6690/ hr

~$4,868.37/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$2.4650/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −63% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.1042/ vCPU-hr

$0.0068/GB-hr

Compute

64vCPUs

32 cores • x86_64

Memory

976GB

15.3 GB / vCPU

Network

High

Baseline: 10 Gbps

Storage & EBS

875MB/s

Max: 40,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to x1.16xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs x1.16xlarge
x1.16xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	64 vCPU · 976 GiB	$6.6690/hr	—
m3-megamem-64same 64 vCPU and 976 GiB; Intel on both; local disk on x1.16xlarge only	64 vCPU · 976 GiB	$7.181208/hr	7.7% 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

ProcessorHigh Frequency Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 (Haswell)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads64 vCPUs

Physical Cores32

Clock Speed2.3 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score1,144,390

CoreMark / vCPU17,881.1 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding213 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar171,598 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.1042

Cost per GB-hr$0.0068

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods234 pods

Max ENIs8

IPv4/v6 per ENI30

Total Addressable IPs240 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceHigh

Baseline Bandwidth10 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationSSD (1920 GB)

Local NVMe Disk1,920 GB SSD

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 Factor128

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$6.6690/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$13.0050/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$8.7315/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

19regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 19 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$9.5240
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$10.6380
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$6.8810
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$9.6710
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$9.6710
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$9.6710
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$9.6710
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$9.6710
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$8.0030
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$8.0030
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$7.3360
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$9.3370
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$8.0030
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$8.4030
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$8.4030
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$13.0050
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$6.6690
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$6.6690
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$6.6690

Windows — Available in all 19 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$12.4680
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$13.5820
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$9.8250
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$12.6150
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$12.6150
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$12.6150
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$12.6150
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$12.6150
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$10.9470
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$10.9470
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$10.2800
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$12.2810
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$10.9470
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$11.3470
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$11.3470
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$15.9490
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$9.6130
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$9.6130
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$9.6130

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 x1.16xlarge on Linux is 37% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 37% 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.