i8ge.metal-24xl pricing and specs in EU (Ireland)
96 vCPU · 768 GiB · 150 Gigabit · AWS Graviton4 Processor Graviton
$12.6000/hour on-demand · $9,198/month (Linux, Shared)
i8ge.metal-24xl is a storage-optimized EC2 instance with 96 vCPU and 768 GiB, generation 8 of the i family on AWS Graviton (Arm). On-demand it costs $12.6000 an hour, about $9,198 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $8.6260 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 499 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $5.4976 an hour, 56% below on-demand. The newer i8g.metal-24xl offers the same size for $9.0768 an hour, 28% less. Across regions the cheapest place to run i8ge.metal-24xl is US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) at $11.3904 an hour, 10% below EU (Ireland).
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE | Ubuntu Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $12.6000 | — | $13.6368 | $12.7250 | $12.7680 |
| Spot | $1.3201 | — | — | — | — |
| 1y Compute SP NU | $9.8960 | — | $10.9328 | $9.9559 | $10.0304 |
| 3y Compute SP NU | $6.3685 | — | $7.4053 | $6.4225 | $6.4780 |
| 1y EC2 SP NU | $8.6260 | — | $9.6628 | $8.6859 | $8.7604 |
| 3y EC2 SP NU | $5.4976 | — | $6.5344 | $5.5516 | $5.6071 |
Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): eu-west-1b $1.3201 · eu-west-1a $1.2600 · eu-west-1c $2.9904
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.
Already Graviton| Type | $/h | Price Δ | vCPU per $ Δ | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| i8g.metal-24xl Graviton | $9.0768 | -28% | +39% | $2,572 |
Cheapest regions for i8ge.metal-24xl
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs eu-west-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $11.3904 | -10% | $883 |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $11.3904 | -10% | $883 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $11.3904 | -10% | $883 |
| EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1 | $11.9448 | -5% | $478 |
| Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5 | $12.2976 | -2% | $221 |
| Asia Pacific (Thailand) ap-southeast-7 | $12.2976 | -2% | $221 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $1.3201 |
| 2026-10-21 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $1.3703 |
| 2026-10-20 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $1.4327 |
| 2026-10-19 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $1.5134 |
| 2026-10-18 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $1.5430 |
| 2026-10-17 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $1.5863 |
| 2026-10-16 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $1.6128 |
| 2026-10-15 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $1.6796 |
| 2026-10-14 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $1.7645 |
| 2026-10-13 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $1.7958 |
| 2026-10-12 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $1.8596 |
| 2026-10-11 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $1.9560 |
| 2026-10-10 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $2.0223 |
| 2026-10-09 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $2.0719 |
| 2026-10-08 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $2.1508 |
| 2026-10-07 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $2.2026 |
| 2026-10-06 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $2.2818 |
| 2026-10-05 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $2.3544 |
| 2026-10-04 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $2.4760 |
| 2026-10-03 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $2.6019 |
| 2026-10-02 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $2.7603 |
| 2026-10-01 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $2.8774 |
| 2026-09-30 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $2.9227 |
| 2026-09-29 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $3.0046 |
| 2026-09-28 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $3.1236 |
| 2026-09-27 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $3.2205 |
| 2026-09-26 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $3.2298 |
| 2026-09-25 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $3.2453 |
| 2026-09-24 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $3.2494 |
| 2026-09-23 | $12.6000 | — | — | — | $3.2644 |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 96
- Cores / threads per core
- 96 / 1
- Memory
- 768 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 8.00 GiB
- Processor
- AWS Graviton4 Processor
- Architecture
- arm64
- Sustained clock
- 2.8 GHz
- Hypervisor
- —
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- Yes
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- 150 Gigabit
- Network baseline / burst
- 150.0 / 150.0 Gbps
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- 16 × 50
- 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
- 8 × 7500 GB NVMe SSD
- GPU
- —
- Placement groups
- cluster, partition, spread
- Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
- No / No
- Dedicated hosts
- Supported
- Boot modes
- uefi
- Spot supported
- Yes
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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