g2.2xlarge pricing and specs in EU (Ireland)
8 vCPU · 15 GiB · Moderate · Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge) previous generation
$0.7020/hour on-demand · $512/month (Linux, Shared)
g2.2xlarge is a GPU EC2 instance with 8 vCPU and 15 GiB, generation 2 of the g family; AWS lists it as a previous generation. On-demand it costs $0.7020 an hour, about $512 a month if it runs all month. The newer g4ad.2xlarge offers the same size for $0.6042 an hour, 14% less. Across regions the cheapest place to run g2.2xlarge is US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) at $0.6500 an hour, 7% below EU (Ireland).
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE | Ubuntu Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $0.7020 | $0.7670 | $0.8170 | $0.8020 | — |
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| Type | $/h | Price Δ | vCPU per $ Δ | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| g4ad.2xlarge | $0.6042 | -14% | +16% | $71 |
| g4dn.2xlarge | $0.8380 | +19% | -16% | $-99 |
| g5.2xlarge | $1.3530 | +93% | -48% | $-475 |
Cheapest regions for g2.2xlarge
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs eu-west-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $0.6500 | -7% | $38 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $0.6500 | -7% | $38 |
| EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 | $0.7020 | current | — |
| US West (N. California) us-west-1 | $0.7020 | 0.0% | $0 |
| EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 | $0.7720 | +10% | $-51 |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1 | $0.8980 | +28% | $-143 |
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 (eu-west-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 | $0.7020 | $0.7670 | — | — | — |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 8
- Cores / threads per core
- —
- Memory
- 15 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 1.88 GiB
- Processor
- Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge)
- Architecture
- x86_64
- Sustained clock
- 2.6 GHz
- Hypervisor
- —
- Generation
- Previous
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- Moderate
- Network baseline / burst
- —
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- —
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- — / — / —
- EBS optimized
- —
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- 1.0 / ? Mbps
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- —
- EBS NVMe
- —
- Instance storage
- 60 GB SSD
- GPU
- 1 × GPU
- Placement groups
- —
- Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
- — / —
- Dedicated hosts
- —
- Boot modes
- —
- Spot supported
- —
Public AWS list prices (USD), refreshed nightly (catalog 2026-10-22). 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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