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r5ad.12xlarge pricing and specs in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

48 vCPU · 384 GiB · 10 Gigabit · AMD EPYC 7571

$1.9930/hour on-demand · $1,455/month (Linux, Shared)

r5ad.12xlarge is a memory-optimized EC2 instance with 48 vCPU and 384 GiB, generation 5 of the r family. On-demand it costs $1.9930 an hour, about $1,455 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $1.2560 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 460 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $0.7494 an hour, 62% below on-demand. The newer r6g.12xlarge offers the same size for $1.5600 an hour, 22% less and moves to Graviton. Asia Pacific (Mumbai) is already the cheapest region for r5ad.12xlarge.

Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)

OptionLinuxWindowsRHELSUSE
On-Demand$1.9930$4.2010$2.5120$2.1180
Spot$0.7898$2.4073——
1y Std RI NU$1.2560$3.4640$1.7740$1.3160
1y Std RI PU$1.1959$3.4039$1.7139$1.2560
1y Std RI AU$1.1720$3.3800$1.6904$1.2320
3y Std RI NU$0.8610$3.0690$1.3790$0.9150
3y Std RI PU$0.7976$3.0056$1.3156$0.8516
3y Std RI AU$0.7494$2.9575$1.2678$0.8034
1y Conv RI NU$1.4440$3.6520$1.9620$1.5040
3y Conv RI NU$1.0270$3.2350$1.5450$1.0810
1y Compute SP NU$1.4440$3.6520$1.9620$1.5040
3y Compute SP NU$1.0270$3.2350$1.5450$1.0810
1y EC2 SP NU$1.2560$3.4640$1.7740$1.3160
3y EC2 SP NU$0.8610$3.0690$1.3790$0.9150

Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): ap-south-1a $0.8278 · ap-south-1b $0.6252 · ap-south-1c $0.7898

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 → r6g.12xlarge (-22%)
Type$/hPrice ΔvCPU per $ ΔSaves / mo
r6g.12xlarge Graviton arch change$1.5600-22%+28%$316
r6a.12xlarge$1.7160-14%+16%$202
r5a.12xlarge$1.7160-14%+16%$202
r6gd.12xlarge Graviton arch change$1.7938-10%+11%$145
r7g.12xlarge Graviton arch change$1.8019-10%+11%$140
r8g.12xlarge Graviton arch change$1.9819-0.6%+0.6%$8
r7gd.12xlarge Graviton arch change$2.1120+6%-6%$-87
r8gd.12xlarge Graviton arch change$2.2810+14%-13%$-210

Cheapest regions for r5ad.12xlarge

RegionOn-Demand $/hvs ap-south-1Saves / mo
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$1.9930current—
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$3.1440+58%$-840
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$3.1440+58%$-840
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$3.1440+58%$-840
Canada (Central) ca-central-1$3.4560+73%$-1,068
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$3.5040+76%$-1,103

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$1.9930$4.2010$1.2560$0.8610$0.7898
2026-10-04$1.9930$4.2010$1.2560$0.8610$0.7926
2026-09-30$1.9930$4.2010$1.2560$0.8610$0.8058
2026-09-29$1.9930$4.2010$1.2560$0.8610$0.7871
2026-09-28$1.9930$4.2010$1.2560$0.8610$0.7514
2026-09-27$1.9930$4.2010$1.2560$0.8610$0.7346
2026-09-26$1.9930$4.2010$1.2560$0.8610$0.7337
2026-09-25$1.9930$4.2010$1.2560$0.8610$0.7329
2026-09-24$1.9930$4.2010$1.2560$0.8610$0.7317
2026-09-23$1.9930$4.2010$1.2560$0.8610$0.7280
2026-09-22$1.9930$4.2010$1.2560$0.8610$0.7252

All attributes

vCPU
48
Cores / threads per core
24 / 2
Memory
384 GiB
Memory per vCPU
8.00 GiB
Processor
AMD EPYC 7571
Architecture
x86_64
Sustained clock
2.2 GHz
Hypervisor
nitro
Generation
Current
Burstable
No
Bare metal
No
Free tier eligible
No
Network performance
10 Gigabit
Network baseline / burst
10.0 / 10.0 Gbps
Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
8 × 30
IPv6 / ENA / EFA
IPv6 / ENA / —
EBS optimized
Yes
EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
6780 / 6780 Mbps
EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
30,000 / 30000
EBS NVMe
required
Instance storage
2 × 900 GB NVMe SSD
GPU
—
Placement groups
cluster, partition, spread
Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
No / Yes
Dedicated hosts
—
Boot modes
legacy-bios, uefi
Spot supported
Yes

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