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m6gd.12xlarge pricing and specs in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

48 vCPU · 192 GiB · 20 Gigabit · AWS Graviton2 Processor Graviton

$1.4496/hour on-demand · $1,058/month (Linux, Shared)

m6gd.12xlarge is a general-purpose EC2 instance with 48 vCPU and 192 GiB, generation 6 of the m family on AWS Graviton (Arm). On-demand it costs $1.4496 an hour, about $1,058 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $0.9132 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 459 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $0.5451 an hour, 62% below on-demand. The newer m6g.12xlarge offers the same size for $1.2144 an hour, 16% less. Asia Pacific (Mumbai) is already the cheapest region for m6gd.12xlarge.

Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)

OptionLinuxWindowsRHELSUSE
On-Demand$1.4496—$1.9680$1.5746
Spot$0.4837———
1y Std RI NU$0.9132—$1.4316$0.9732
1y Std RI PU$0.8698—$1.3882$0.9297
1y Std RI AU$0.8524—$1.3708$0.9123
3y Std RI NU$0.6262—$1.1446$0.6802
3y Std RI PU$0.5798—$1.0982$0.6338
3y Std RI AU$0.5451—$1.0634$0.5990
1y Conv RI NU$1.0718—$1.5902$1.1318
3y Conv RI NU$0.7242—$1.2426$0.7782
1y Compute SP NU$1.0718—$1.5902$1.1317
3y Compute SP NU$0.7242—$1.2426$0.7782
1y EC2 SP NU$0.9132—$1.4316$0.9731
3y EC2 SP NU$0.6262—$1.1446$0.6802

Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): ap-south-1b $0.2718 · ap-south-1a $0.4837 · ap-south-1c $0.5397

Newer generations of the same size

Same family letter and size in a newer generation, ranked by price. “vCPU per $” uses vCPU as the performance proxy — newer chips usually add more, so it is a floor.

Already Graviton
Type$/hPrice ΔvCPU per $ ΔSaves / mo
m6g.12xlarge Graviton$1.2144-16%+19%$172
m6a.12xlarge arch change$1.3332-8%+9%$85
m7g.12xlarge Graviton$1.3997-3%+4%$36
m8g.12xlarge Graviton$1.5398+6%-6%$-66
m7gd.12xlarge Graviton$1.7040+18%-15%$-186
m8gd.12xlarge Graviton$1.8403+27%-21%$-285
m7i-flex.12xlarge arch change$2.4180+67%-40%$-707
m6i.12xlarge arch change$2.4240+67%-40%$-711

Cheapest regions for m6gd.12xlarge

RegionOn-Demand $/hvs ap-south-1Saves / mo
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$1.4496current—
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$1.44960.0%$0
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$2.1696+50%$-526
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$2.1696+50%$-526
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$2.1696+50%$-526
Mexico (Central) mx-central-1$2.2781+57%$-605

Caveat: instance price is only part of the bill. Cross-region and internet data transfer, latency to your users, data-residency rules and service availability can outweigh a few percent on compute.

Price history (ap-south-1)

Daily snapshots since the catalog started tracking this type; a row is added whenever a headline price changes.

DateOD LinuxOD Windows1y RI3y RISpot p50
2026-10-05$1.4496—$0.9132$0.6262$0.4837
2026-10-04$1.4496—$0.9132$0.6262$0.5056
2026-10-03$1.4496—$0.9132$0.6262$0.5119
2026-09-29$1.4496—$0.9132$0.6262$0.5160
2026-09-28$1.4496—$0.9132$0.6262$0.5069
2026-09-27$1.4496—$0.9132$0.6262$0.4894
2026-09-26$1.4496—$0.9132$0.6262$0.4872
2026-09-25$1.4496—$0.9132$0.6262$0.4843
2026-09-24$1.4496—$0.9132$0.6262$0.4775
2026-09-23$1.4496—$0.9132$0.6262$0.4652
2026-09-22$1.4496—$0.9132$0.6262$0.4585

All attributes

vCPU
48
Cores / threads per core
48 / 1
Memory
192 GiB
Memory per vCPU
4.00 GiB
Processor
AWS Graviton2 Processor
Architecture
arm64
Sustained clock
2.5 GHz
Hypervisor
nitro
Generation
Current
Burstable
No
Bare metal
No
Free tier eligible
No
Network performance
20 Gigabit
Network baseline / burst
20.0 / 20.0 Gbps
Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
8 × 30
IPv6 / ENA / EFA
IPv6 / ENA / —
EBS optimized
Yes
EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
14250 / 14250 Mbps
EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
50,000 / 50000
EBS NVMe
required
Instance storage
2 × 1425 GB NVMe SSD
GPU
—
Placement groups
cluster, partition, spread
Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
No / Yes
Dedicated hosts
Supported
Boot modes
uefi
Spot supported
Yes

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