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r8idb.12xlarge pricing and specs in EU (Ireland)

48 vCPU · 384 GiB · 50 Gigabit · Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)

$6.2674/hour on-demand · $4,575/month (Linux, Shared)

r8idb.12xlarge is a memory-optimized EC2 instance with 48 vCPU and 384 GiB, generation 8 of the r family. On-demand it costs $6.2674 an hour, about $4,575 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $3.9484 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 459 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $2.6188 an hour, 58% below on-demand. The newer r8g.12xlarge offers the same size for $3.1642 an hour, 50% less and moves to Graviton. Across regions the cheapest place to run r8idb.12xlarge is US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) at $5.6273 an hour, 10% below EU (Ireland).

Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)

OptionLinuxWindowsRHELSUSEUbuntu Pro
On-Demand$6.2674$8.4754$6.7858$6.3924$6.3514
Spot$2.3228$3.9047———
1y Compute SP NU$4.6322$6.8402$5.1506$4.6921$4.6994
3y Compute SP NU$3.0121$5.2201$3.5305$3.0661$3.0668
1y EC2 SP NU$3.9484$6.1564$4.4668$4.0083$4.0156
3y EC2 SP NU$2.6188$4.8268$3.1372$2.6728$2.6736

Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): eu-west-1a $2.5457 · eu-west-1c $2.0998

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.

Graviton-eligible → r8g.12xlarge (-50%)
Type$/hPrice ΔvCPU per $ ΔSaves / mo
r8g.12xlarge Graviton arch change$3.1642-50%+98%$2,265
r8i-flex.12xlarge$3.5443-43%+77%$1,988
r8i.12xlarge$3.7308-40%+68%$1,852
r8gd.12xlarge Graviton arch change$3.9192-37%+60%$1,714
r8a.12xlarge$4.2905-32%+46%$1,443
r8id.12xlarge$4.4352-29%+41%$1,337
r8ib.12xlarge$5.6273-10%+11%$467
r8in.12xlarge$5.6273-10%+11%$467

Cheapest regions for r8idb.12xlarge

RegionOn-Demand $/hvs eu-west-1Saves / mo
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$5.6273-10%$467
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$5.6273-10%$467
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$5.6273-10%$467
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$6.26740.0%$0
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$6.2674current—
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$6.7056+7%$-320

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.

DateOD LinuxOD Windows1y RI3y RISpot p50
2026-10-22$6.2674$8.4754——$2.3228
2026-10-21$6.2674$8.4754——$2.3323
2026-10-20$6.2674$8.4754——$2.3584
2026-10-19$6.2674$8.4754——$2.3971
2026-10-18$6.2674$8.4754——$2.4133
2026-10-17$6.2674$8.4754——$2.4774
2026-10-16$6.2674$8.4754——$2.5741
2026-10-15$6.2674$8.4754——$2.6852
2026-10-14$6.2674$8.4754——$2.7386
2026-10-13$6.2674$8.4754——$2.8201
2026-10-12$6.2674$8.4754——$2.9532
2026-10-11$6.2674$8.4754——$3.0661
2026-10-10$6.2674$8.4754——$3.1592
2026-10-09$6.2674$8.4754——$3.2306
2026-10-08$6.2674$8.4754——$3.2982
2026-10-07$6.2674$8.4754——$3.3807
2026-10-06$6.2674$8.4754——$3.4794
2026-10-05$6.2674$8.4754——$3.5486
2026-10-04$6.2674$8.4754——$3.6186
2026-10-03$6.2674$8.4754——$3.6714
2026-10-02$6.2674$8.4754——$3.7778
2026-10-01$6.2674$8.4754——$3.9322
2026-09-30$6.2674$8.4754——$4.0050
2026-09-29$6.2674$8.4754——$4.1542
2026-09-28$6.2674$8.4754——$4.1848
2026-09-24$6.2674$8.4754——$4.2259
2026-09-22$6.2674$8.4754——$4.1584

All attributes

vCPU
48
Cores / threads per core
24 / 2
Memory
384 GiB
Memory per vCPU
8.00 GiB
Processor
Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
Architecture
x86_64
Sustained clock
3.9 GHz
Hypervisor
nitro
Generation
Current
Burstable
No
Bare metal
No
Free tier eligible
No
Network performance
50 Gigabit
Network baseline / burst
50.0 / 50.0 Gbps
Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
12 × 50
IPv6 / ENA / EFA
IPv6 / ENA / —
EBS optimized
Yes
EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
37500 / 37500 Mbps
EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
180,000 / 180000
EBS NVMe
required
Instance storage
2850 GB NVMe SSD
GPU
—
Placement groups
cluster, partition, spread
Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
No / Yes
Dedicated hosts
Supported
Boot modes
legacy-bios, uefi
Spot supported
Yes

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