p2.16xlarge pricing and specs in EU (Ireland)
64 vCPU · 732 GiB · 20 Gigabit · Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
$15.5520/hour on-demand · $11,353/month (Linux, Shared)
p2.16xlarge is a GPU machine-learning EC2 instance with 64 vCPU and 732 GiB, generation 2 of the p family. On-demand it costs $15.5520 an hour, about $11,353 a month if it runs all month. The newer p3.16xlarge offers the same size for $26.4400 an hour, 70% more. Across regions the cheapest place to run p2.16xlarge is US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) at $14.4000 an hour, 7% below EU (Ireland).
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE | Ubuntu Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $15.5520 | $18.4960 | $16.2430 | $15.6520 | $15.6640 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| p3.16xlarge | $26.4400 | +70% | -41% | $-7,948 |
Cheapest regions for p2.16xlarge
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs eu-west-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $14.4000 | -7% | $841 |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $14.4000 | -7% | $841 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $14.4000 | -7% | $841 |
| EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 | $15.5520 | current | — |
| EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 | $21.2160 | +36% | $-4,135 |
| Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2 | $23.4400 | +51% | $-5,758 |
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 | $15.5520 | $18.4960 | — | — | — |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 64
- Cores / threads per core
- —
- Memory
- 732 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 11.44 GiB
- Processor
- Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
- Architecture
- x86_64
- Sustained clock
- 2.3 GHz
- Hypervisor
- —
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- No
- 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)
- 10000.0 / ? Mbps
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- —
- EBS NVMe
- —
- Instance storage
- EBS only
- GPU
- 16 × 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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