i3.metal pricing and specs in EU (Ireland)
64 vCPU · 488 GiB · 20 Gigabit · Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
$5.5040/hour on-demand · $4,018/month (Linux, Shared)
i3.metal is a storage-optimized EC2 instance with 64 vCPU and 488 GiB, generation 3 of the i family. On-demand it costs $5.5040 an hour, about $4,018 a month if it runs all month. The newer i3en.metal offers the same size for $12.0000 an hour, 118% more. Across regions the cheapest place to run i3.metal is US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) at $4.9920 an hour, 9% below EU (Ireland).
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE | Ubuntu Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $5.5040 | $8.4480 | $6.2820 | $5.6040 | $5.6300 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| i3en.metal | $12.0000 | +118% | -31% | $-4,742 |
| i4i.metal | $12.1090 | +120% | -9% | $-4,822 |
Cheapest regions for i3.metal
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs eu-west-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $4.9920 | -9% | $374 |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $4.9920 | -9% | $374 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $4.9920 | -9% | $374 |
| EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1 | $5.2160 | -5% | $210 |
| Canada (Central) ca-central-1 | $5.5040 | 0.0% | $0 |
| EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 | $5.5040 | current | — |
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 | $5.5040 | $8.4480 | — | — | — |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 64
- Cores / threads per core
- —
- Memory
- 488 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 7.62 GiB
- Processor
- Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
- Architecture
- x86_64
- Sustained clock
- 2.3 GHz
- Hypervisor
- —
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- Yes
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- 20 Gigabit
- Network baseline / burst
- —
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- —
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- — / ENA / —
- EBS optimized
- —
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- 14000.0 / ? Mbps
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- —
- EBS NVMe
- —
- Instance storage
- 8 × 1900 GB NVMe SSD
- 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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