AWS Amazon EC2

x1e.4xlarge

Part of the X1E Memory Optimized family — High memory-to-vCPU ratio for memory-intensive applications.

Name:xExtreme Memory Optimized11st GenerationeExtra Capacity / Expansion4xlarge4 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$3.3360/ hr

~$2,435.28/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$1.2330/ hr

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

Per unit

$0.2085/ vCPU-hr

$0.0068/GB-hr

Compute

16vCPUs

8 cores • x86_64

Memory

488GB

30.5 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 10 Gbps

Baseline: 2.5 Gbps

Storage & EBS

218.75MB/s

Max: 10,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to x1e.4xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs x1e.4xlarge
x1e.4xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	16 vCPU · 488 GiB	$3.3360/hr	—
m4-hypermem-3232 vCPU and 496 GiB for 16 vCPU and 488 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 8 physical cores vs 16; local disk on x1e.4xlarge only	32 vCPU · 496 GiB	$2.851629/hr	15% less
m4n-hypermem-3232 vCPU and 496 GiB for 16 vCPU and 488 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 8 physical cores vs 16; local disk on x1e.4xlarge only	32 vCPU · 496 GiB	$5.132931/hr	54% more
m3-ultramem-3232 vCPU and 976 GiB for 16 vCPU and 488 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 8 physical cores vs 16; local disk on x1e.4xlarge only	32 vCPU · 976 GiB	$6.071254/hr	82% 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 / Threads16 vCPUs

Physical Cores8

Clock Speed2.3 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score276,948

CoreMark / vCPU17,309.3 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding102 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar83,018 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.2085

Cost per GB-hr$0.0068

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 ConfigurationSSD (480 GB)

Local NVMe Disk480 GB SSD

EBS Baseline Throughput218.75 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput218.75 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS10,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS10,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput1750 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor32

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$3.3360/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$6.5020/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$4.3266/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

16regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$4.7600
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$3.4400
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$4.8360
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$4.8360
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$4.8360
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$4.8360
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$4.8360
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$4.0000
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$4.0000
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$3.6670
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$4.6680
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$4.0000
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$6.5020
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$3.3360
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$3.3360
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$3.3360

Windows — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$5.4960
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$4.1760
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$5.5720
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$5.5720
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$5.5720
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$5.5720
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$5.5720
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$4.7360
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$4.7360
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$4.4030
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$5.4040
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$4.7360
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$7.2380
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$4.0720
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$4.0720
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$4.0720

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 x1e.4xlarge 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.