r8gd.48xlarge pricing and specs in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
192 vCPU · 1536 GiB · 50 Gigabit · AWS Graviton4 Processor Graviton
$9.1238/hour on-demand · $6,660/month (Linux, Shared)
r8gd.48xlarge is a memory-optimized EC2 instance with 192 vCPU and 1536 GiB, generation 8 of the r family on AWS Graviton (Arm). On-demand it costs $9.1238 an hour, about $6,660 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $5.7480 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 $3.9415 an hour, 57% below on-demand. The newer r8g.48xlarge offers the same size for $7.9277 an hour, 13% less. Asia Pacific (Mumbai) is already the cheapest region for r8gd.48xlarge.
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $9.1238 | — | $10.9670 | $9.2488 |
| Spot | $1.5551 | — | — | — |
| 1y Compute SP NU | $6.6102 | — | $8.4534 | $6.6701 |
| 3y Compute SP NU | $4.7012 | — | $6.5444 | $4.7552 |
| 1y EC2 SP NU | $5.7480 | — | $7.5912 | $5.8079 |
| 3y EC2 SP NU | $3.9415 | — | $5.7847 | $3.9955 |
Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): ap-south-1c $1.5551 · ap-south-1b $1.5012 · ap-south-1a $2.6432
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 | $/h | Price Δ | vCPU per $ Δ | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| r8g.48xlarge Graviton | $7.9277 | -13% | +15% | $873 |
| r8i.48xlarge arch change | $13.7597 | +51% | -34% | $-3,384 |
| r8id.48xlarge arch change | $16.7482 | +84% | -46% | $-5,566 |
Cheapest regions for r8gd.48xlarge
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs ap-south-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1 | $9.1238 | current | — |
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $14.1082 | +55% | $-3,639 |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $14.1082 | +55% | $-3,639 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $14.1082 | +55% | $-3,639 |
| Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5 | $14.4902 | +59% | $-3,917 |
| EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1 | $14.8934 | +63% | $-4,212 |
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.
| Date | OD Linux | OD Windows | 1y RI | 3y RI | Spot p50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-10 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.5551 |
| 2026-10-09 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.5726 |
| 2026-10-08 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.6251 |
| 2026-10-04 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.6601 |
| 2026-10-03 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.5345 |
| 2026-10-02 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.4952 |
| 2026-10-01 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.4234 |
| 2026-09-30 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.3521 |
| 2026-09-29 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.3049 |
| 2026-09-26 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.2888 |
| 2026-09-25 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.3020 |
| 2026-09-24 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.3477 |
| 2026-09-23 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.4034 |
| 2026-09-22 | $9.1238 | — | — | — | $1.4258 |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 192
- Cores / threads per core
- 192 / 1
- Memory
- 1536 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 8.00 GiB
- Processor
- AWS Graviton4 Processor
- Architecture
- arm64
- Sustained clock
- 2.7 GHz
- Hypervisor
- nitro
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- 50 Gigabit
- Network baseline / burst
- 50.0 / 50.0 Gbps
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- 15 × 50
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- EBS optimized
- Yes
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- 40000 / 40000 Mbps
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- 240,000 / 240000
- EBS NVMe
- required
- Instance storage
- 6 × 1900 GB NVMe SSD
- GPU
- —
- Placement groups
- cluster, partition, spread
- Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
- No / Yes
- Dedicated hosts
- Supported
- Boot modes
- uefi
- Spot supported
- Yes
Public AWS list prices (USD), refreshed nightly (catalog 2026-10-10). RI and Savings Plan rates are effective hourly (upfront amortised over the term) and are charged for every hour of the term. Excludes taxes, data transfer and storage. How these numbers are sourced and checked. Not affiliated with Amazon Web Services.
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