AWS Amazon EC2

x8i.96xlarge

Part of the X8I Memory Optimized family — High memory-to-vCPU ratio for memory-intensive applications.

Name:xExtreme Memory Optimized88th GenerationiIntel Xeon Scalable96xlarge96 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$48.7444/ hr

~$35,583.40/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$18.79388/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −61% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.1269/ vCPU-hr

$0.0079/GB-hr

Compute

384vCPUs

192 cores • x86_64

Memory

6,144GB

16.0 GB / vCPU

Network

100 Gbps

Baseline: 100 Gbps

Storage & EBS

10,000MB/s

Max: 480,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to x8i.96xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs x8i.96xlarge
x8i.96xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	384 vCPU · 6,144 GiB	$48.74438/hr	—
m2-hypermem-416416 vCPU and 8832 GiB for 384 vCPU and 6144 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 192 physical cores vs 208	416 vCPU · 8,832 GiB	$76.312064/hr	57% more
m2-ultramem-416416 vCPU and 11776 GiB for 384 vCPU and 6144 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 192 physical cores vs 208	416 vCPU · 11,776 GiB	$95.60704/hr	96% 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

ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads384 vCPUs

Physical Cores192

Clock Speed3.9 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark ScoreNot benchmarked

CoreMark / vCPU—

FFmpeg Transcoding—

CoreMark per Dollar—

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.1269

Cost per GB-hr$0.0079

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods1514 pods

Max ENIs24

IPv4/v6 per ENI64

Total Addressable IPs1536 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network Performance100 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth100 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth100 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput10000 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput10000 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS480,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS480,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput80000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor768

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$48.7444/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$77.7265/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$56.1157/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

17regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 17 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia)	$52.8323
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$50.2360
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$58.7024
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$58.7024
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$58.3850
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$58.7024
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$58.3629
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$58.8230
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$54.4895
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$57.2508
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$57.2119
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$51.7837
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$54.5246
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$77.7265
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$48.7444
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$48.7444
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$48.7444

Windows — Available in all 17 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia)	$70.4963
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$67.9000
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$76.3663
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$76.3663
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$76.0490
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$76.3663
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$76.0268
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$76.4870
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$72.1535
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$74.9148
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$74.8759
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$69.4477
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$72.1886
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$95.3905
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$66.4084
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$66.4084
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$66.4084

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 x8i.96xlarge on Linux is 39% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 39% 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.