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r8id.2xlarge pricing and specs in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

8 vCPU · 64 GiB · Up to 15 Gigabit · Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)

$0.6978/hour on-demand · $509/month (Linux, Shared)

Pricing by os (hourly, USD, Shared)

OptionLinuxWindowsRHELSUSE
On-Demand$0.6978$1.0658$0.8130$0.8228
Spot$0.1761$0.4439
1y Compute SP NU$0.5056$0.8736$0.6208$0.5655
3y Compute SP NU$0.3596$0.7276$0.4748$0.4136
1y EC2 SP NU$0.4396$0.8076$0.5548$0.4995
3y EC2 SP NU$0.3015$0.6695$0.4167$0.3555

Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): ap-south-1a $0.1761 · ap-south-1c $0.1462 · ap-south-1b $0.1824

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 → r8g.2xlarge (-53%)
Type$/hPrice ΔvCPU per $ ΔSaves / mo
r8g.2xlarge Graviton arch change$0.3303-53%+111%$268
r8gd.2xlarge Graviton arch change$0.3802-46%+84%$232
r8i-flex.2xlarge$0.5446-22%+28%$112
r8i.2xlarge$0.5733-18%+22%$91

Cheapest regions for r8id.2xlarge

RegionOn-Demand $/hvs ap-south-1Saves / mo
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.6653-5%$24
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.6653-5%$24
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.6653-5%$24
Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5$0.6833-2%$11
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.6978current
EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1$0.7022+0.6%$-3

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$0.6978$1.0658$0.1761

All attributes

vCPU
8
Cores / threads per core
4 / 2
Memory
64 GiB
Memory per vCPU
8.00 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
Up to 15 Gigabit
Network baseline / burst
3.75 / 15.0 Gbps
Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
4 × 30
IPv6 / ENA / EFA
IPv6 / ENA / —
EBS optimized
Yes
EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
2500 / 10000 Mbps
EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
12,000 / 40000
EBS NVMe
required
Instance storage
474 GB NVMe SSD
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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