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m8i.16xlarge pricing and specs in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

64 vCPU · 256 GiB · 30 Gigabit · Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)

$3.5632/hour on-demand · $2,601/month (Linux, Shared)

Pricing by os (hourly, USD, Shared)

OptionLinuxWindowsRHELSUSE
On-Demand$3.5632$6.5072$4.2544$3.6882
Spot$0.7982$3.3003
1y Compute SP NU$2.6301$5.5741$3.3213$2.6900
3y Compute SP NU$1.7908$4.7348$2.4820$1.8448
1y EC2 SP NU$2.3532$5.2972$3.0444$2.4131
3y EC2 SP NU$1.6203$4.5643$2.3115$1.6743

Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): ap-south-1b $0.6168 · ap-south-1c $0.7982 · ap-south-1a $0.8947

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 (-42%)
Type$/hPrice ΔvCPU per $ ΔSaves / mo
m8g.16xlarge Graviton arch change$2.0531-42%+74%$1,102
m8gd.16xlarge Graviton arch change$2.4538-31%+45%$810
m8i-flex.16xlarge$3.3853-5%+5%$130
m8a.16xlarge$4.0979+15%-13%$-390
m8id.16xlarge$4.5091+27%-21%$-691

Cheapest regions for m8i.16xlarge

RegionOn-Demand $/hvs ap-south-1Saves / mo
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$3.3869-5%$129
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$3.3869-5%$129
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$3.3869-5%$129
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$3.5632current
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$3.56320.0%$0
Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5$3.5984+1.0%$-26

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$3.5632$6.5072$0.7982

All attributes

vCPU
64
Cores / threads per core
32 / 2
Memory
256 GiB
Memory per vCPU
4.00 GiB
Processor
Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Architecture
x86_64
Sustained clock
3.9 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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