m8azn.3xlarge pricing and specs in EU (Ireland)
12 vCPU · 48 GiB · Up to 50 Gigabit · AMD EPYC 9575F
$1.3808/hour on-demand · $1,008/month (Linux, Shared)
m8azn.3xlarge is a general-purpose EC2 instance with 12 vCPU and 48 GiB, generation 8 of the m family. On-demand it costs $1.3808 an hour, about $1,008 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $0.8649 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 457 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $0.6011 an hour, 56% below on-demand. There is no newer generation at this size in EU (Ireland). Across regions the cheapest place to run m8azn.3xlarge is US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) at $1.2388 an hour, 10% below EU (Ireland).
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE | Ubuntu Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | $1.5104 | $1.5058 | $1.4018 |
| Spot | $0.5601 | $0.8782 | — | — | — |
| 1y Compute SP NU | $1.0378 | $1.5898 | $1.1674 | $1.0977 | $1.0546 |
| 3y Compute SP NU | $0.7213 | $1.2733 | $0.8509 | $0.7753 | $0.7350 |
| 1y EC2 SP NU | $0.8649 | $1.4169 | $0.9945 | $0.9248 | $0.8817 |
| 3y EC2 SP NU | $0.6011 | $1.1531 | $0.7307 | $0.6551 | $0.6148 |
Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): eu-west-1c $0.5435 · eu-west-1b $0.5601 · eu-west-1a $0.6060
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 EU (Ireland).
Cheapest regions for m8azn.3xlarge
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs eu-west-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $1.2388 | -10% | $104 |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $1.2388 | -10% | $104 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $1.2388 | -10% | $104 |
| EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 | $1.3808 | current | — |
| EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 | $1.4840 | +7% | $-75 |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1 | $1.6001 | +16% | $-160 |
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 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5601 |
| 2026-10-21 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5602 |
| 2026-10-20 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5604 |
| 2026-10-19 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5607 |
| 2026-10-18 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5638 |
| 2026-10-17 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5651 |
| 2026-10-16 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5660 |
| 2026-10-15 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5713 |
| 2026-10-14 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5731 |
| 2026-10-11 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5735 |
| 2026-10-10 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5731 |
| 2026-10-09 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5714 |
| 2026-10-08 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5705 |
| 2026-10-07 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5695 |
| 2026-10-06 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5682 |
| 2026-10-05 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5672 |
| 2026-10-04 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5615 |
| 2026-10-03 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5629 |
| 2026-10-02 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5639 |
| 2026-10-01 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5695 |
| 2026-09-30 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5733 |
| 2026-09-29 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5760 |
| 2026-09-28 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5783 |
| 2026-09-24 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5813 |
| 2026-09-23 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5796 |
| 2026-09-22 | $1.3808 | $1.9328 | — | — | $0.5773 |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 12
- Cores / threads per core
- 12 / 1
- Memory
- 48 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 4.00 GiB
- Processor
- AMD EPYC 9575F
- Architecture
- x86_64
- Sustained clock
- 5.0 GHz
- Hypervisor
- nitro
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- Up to 50 Gigabit
- Network baseline / burst
- 25.0 / 50.0 Gbps
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- 8 × 40
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- IPv6 / ENA / —
- EBS optimized
- Yes
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- 7500 / 15000 Mbps
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- 30,000 / 60000
- EBS NVMe
- required
- Instance storage
- EBS only
- GPU
- —
- Placement groups
- cluster, partition, spread
- Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
- Yes / Yes
- Dedicated hosts
- Supported
- Boot modes
- legacy-bios, 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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