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z1d.6xlarge pricing and specs in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

24 vCPU · 192 GiB · 12 Gigabit · Intel Xeon Platinum 8151

$2.3520/hour on-demand · $1,717/month (Linux, Shared)

z1d.6xlarge is a high-frequency EC2 instance with 24 vCPU and 192 GiB, generation 1 of the z family. On-demand it costs $2.3520 an hour, about $1,717 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $1.4820 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 $0.8490 an hour, 64% below on-demand. There is no newer generation at this size in Asia Pacific (Mumbai). Across regions the cheapest place to run z1d.6xlarge is US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) at $2.2320 an hour, 5% below Asia Pacific (Mumbai).

Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)

OptionLinuxWindowsRHELSUSE
On-Demand$2.3520$3.4560$2.6110$2.4770
Spot$0.5885$1.3392——
1y Std RI NU$1.4820$2.5860$1.7410$1.5420
1y Std RI PU$1.4116$2.5156$1.6706$1.4716
1y Std RI AU$1.3830$2.4870$1.6421$1.4429
3y Std RI NU$0.9750$2.0790$1.2350$1.0290
3y Std RI PU$0.9036$2.0076$1.1626$0.9576
3y Std RI AU$0.8490$1.9530$1.1082$0.9030
1y Conv RI NU$1.7030$2.8070$1.9620$1.7630
3y Conv RI NU$1.1180$2.2220$1.3770$1.1720
1y Compute SP NU$1.7030$2.8070$1.9620$1.7630
3y Compute SP NU$1.1180$2.2220$1.3770$1.1720
1y EC2 SP NU$1.4820$2.5860$1.7410$1.5420
3y EC2 SP NU$0.9750$2.0790$1.2350$1.0290

Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): ap-south-1b $0.7401 · ap-south-1a $0.4369

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 size

No newer generation of this size is priced in Asia Pacific (Mumbai).

Cheapest regions for z1d.6xlarge

RegionOn-Demand $/hvs ap-south-1Saves / mo
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$2.2320-5%$88
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$2.2320-5%$88
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$2.2320-5%$88
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$2.3520current—
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$2.4960+6%$-105
US West (N. California) us-west-1$2.5320+8%$-131

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
2026-10-15$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.5885
2026-10-14$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.5840
2026-10-13$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.5685
2026-10-12$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.5459
2026-10-11$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.5286
2026-10-10$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.5181
2026-10-09$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.5018
2026-10-08$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4879
2026-10-07$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4744
2026-10-06$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4665
2026-10-05$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4580
2026-10-04$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4481
2026-10-03$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4414
2026-10-02$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4466
2026-10-01$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4528
2026-09-29$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4543
2026-09-28$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4653
2026-09-27$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4662
2026-09-26$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4698
2026-09-25$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4713
2026-09-24$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4702
2026-09-23$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4748
2026-09-22$2.3520$3.4560$1.4820$0.9750$0.4828

All attributes

vCPU
24
Cores / threads per core
12 / 2
Memory
192 GiB
Memory per vCPU
8.00 GiB
Processor
Intel Xeon Platinum 8151
Architecture
x86_64
Sustained clock
4.0 GHz
Hypervisor
nitro
Generation
Current
Burstable
No
Bare metal
No
Free tier eligible
No
Network performance
12 Gigabit
Network baseline / burst
12.0 / 12.0 Gbps
Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
8 × 30
IPv6 / ENA / EFA
IPv6 / ENA / —
EBS optimized
Yes
EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
9500 / 9500 Mbps
EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
40,000 / 40000
EBS NVMe
required
Instance storage
900 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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