x8aedz.metal-12xl pricing and specs in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
48 vCPU · 1536 GiB · 37.5 Gigabit · AMD EPYC 9R05 Processor
$14.2214/hour on-demand · $10,382/month (Linux, Shared)
x8aedz.metal-12xl is a high-memory EC2 instance with 48 vCPU and 1536 GiB, generation 8 of the x family. On-demand it costs $14.2214 an hour, about $10,382 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $8.9600 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 $6.1430 an hour, 57% below on-demand. There is no newer generation at this size in Asia Pacific (Mumbai). Across regions the cheapest place to run x8aedz.metal-12xl is US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) at $13.8072 an hour, 3% below Asia Pacific (Mumbai).
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE | Ubuntu Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | $14.7398 | $14.3464 | $14.3054 |
| Spot | $2.6504 | $3.6301 | — | — | — |
| 1y Compute SP NU | $10.7510 | $12.9590 | $11.2694 | $10.8109 | $10.8182 |
| 3y Compute SP NU | $7.3738 | $9.5818 | $7.8922 | $7.4278 | $7.4285 |
| 1y EC2 SP NU | $8.9600 | $11.1680 | $9.4784 | $9.0199 | $9.0272 |
| 3y EC2 SP NU | $6.1430 | $8.3511 | $6.6615 | $6.1970 | $6.1978 |
Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): ap-south-1a $2.6504
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.
No Graviton equivalent at this sizeNo newer generation of this size is priced in Asia Pacific (Mumbai).
Cheapest regions for x8aedz.metal-12xl
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs ap-south-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $13.8072 | -3% | $302 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1 | $14.2214 | current | — |
| EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1 | $15.7402 | +11% | $-1,109 |
| EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 | $16.5686 | +17% | $-1,713 |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1 | $20.0206 | +41% | $-4,233 |
| Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2 | $20.0206 | +41% | $-4,233 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-06 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $2.6504 |
| 2026-11-05 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $2.5262 |
| 2026-11-04 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $2.4587 |
| 2026-11-03 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $2.3203 |
| 2026-11-02 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $2.2011 |
| 2026-11-01 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $2.1100 |
| 2026-10-31 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $1.9577 |
| 2026-10-30 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $1.8993 |
| 2026-10-29 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $1.7632 |
| 2026-10-28 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $1.7178 |
| 2026-10-27 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $1.6425 |
| 2026-10-26 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $1.5660 |
| 2026-10-25 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $1.4983 |
| 2026-10-24 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $1.4394 |
| 2026-09-22 | $14.2214 | $16.4294 | — | — | $1.4221 |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 48
- Cores / threads per core
- 48 / 1
- Memory
- 1536 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 32.00 GiB
- Processor
- AMD EPYC 9R05 Processor
- Architecture
- x86_64
- Sustained clock
- 5.0 GHz
- Hypervisor
- —
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- Yes
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- 37.5 Gigabit
- Network baseline / burst
- 37.5 / 37.5 Gbps
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- 16 × 64
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- IPv6 / ENA / —
- EBS optimized
- Yes
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- 30000 / 30000 Mbps
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- 120,000 / 120000
- EBS NVMe
- required
- Instance storage
- 3800 GB NVMe SSD
- GPU
- —
- Placement groups
- cluster, partition, spread
- Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
- No / No
- Dedicated hosts
- Supported
- Boot modes
- legacy-bios
- Spot supported
- Yes
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