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m8a.16xlarge pricing and specs in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

64 vCPU · 256 GiB · 30 Gigabit · AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor

$4.0979/hour on-demand · $2,991/month (Linux, Shared)

Pricing by os (hourly, USD, Shared)

OptionLinuxWindowsRHELSUSE
On-Demand$4.0979$7.0419$4.7891$4.2229
Spot$0.6630$3.4073
1y Compute SP NU$3.0248$5.9688$3.7159$3.0846
3y Compute SP NU$2.0595$5.0035$2.7507$2.1135
1y EC2 SP NU$2.7063$5.6503$3.3975$2.7662
3y EC2 SP NU$1.8634$4.8074$2.5546$1.9174

Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): ap-south-1c $0.6592 · ap-south-1b $0.6630 · ap-south-1a $1.0310

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.

Graviton-eligible → m8g.16xlarge (-50%)
Type$/hPrice ΔvCPU per $ ΔSaves / mo
m8g.16xlarge Graviton arch change$2.0531-50%+100%$1,493
m8gd.16xlarge Graviton arch change$2.4538-40%+67%$1,200
m8i-flex.16xlarge$3.3853-17%+21%$520
m8i.16xlarge$3.5632-13%+15%$390
m8id.16xlarge$4.5091+10%-9%$-300

Cheapest regions for m8a.16xlarge

RegionOn-Demand $/hvs ap-south-1Saves / mo
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$3.8950-5%$148
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$3.8950-5%$148
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$3.8950-5%$148
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$4.0976-0.0%$0
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$4.0979current
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$4.3411+6%$-178

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
2026-09-22$4.0979$7.0419$0.6630

All attributes

vCPU
64
Cores / threads per core
64 / 1
Memory
256 GiB
Memory per vCPU
4.00 GiB
Processor
AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor
Architecture
x86_64
Sustained clock
4.5 GHz
Hypervisor
nitro
Generation
Current
Burstable
No
Bare metal
No
Free tier eligible
No
Network performance
30 Gigabit
Network baseline / burst
30.0 / 30.0 Gbps
Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
16 × 64
IPv6 / ENA / EFA
IPv6 / ENA / —
EBS optimized
Yes
EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
20000 / 20000 Mbps
EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
80,000 / 80000
EBS NVMe
required
Instance storage
EBS only
GPU
Placement groups
cluster, partition, spread
Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
No / Yes
Dedicated hosts
Supported
Boot modes
legacy-bios, uefi
Spot supported
Yes

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