i7ie.metal-24xl pricing and specs in US East (N. Virginia)
96 vCPU · 768 GiB · 100 Gigabit · Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
$12.4752/hour on-demand · $9,107/month (Linux, Shared)
i7ie.metal-24xl is a storage-optimized EC2 instance with 96 vCPU and 768 GiB, generation 7 of the i family. On-demand it costs $12.4752 an hour, about $9,107 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $8.4962 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 497 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $5.4282 an hour, 56% below on-demand. The newer i8g.metal-24xl offers the same size for $8.2368 an hour, 34% less and moves to Graviton. US East (N. Virginia) is already the cheapest region for i7ie.metal-24xl.
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE | Ubuntu Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | $13.5120 | $12.6002 | $12.6432 |
| Spot | $2.8474 | $5.6635 | — | — | — |
| 1y Compute SP NU | $9.8390 | $14.2550 | $10.8758 | $9.8989 | $9.9734 |
| 3y Compute SP NU | $6.2533 | $10.6693 | $7.2901 | $6.3073 | $6.3628 |
| 1y EC2 SP NU | $8.4962 | $12.9122 | $9.5330 | $8.5561 | $8.6306 |
| 3y EC2 SP NU | $5.4282 | $9.8442 | $6.4650 | $5.4822 | $5.5377 |
Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): us-east-1c $2.5115 · us-east-1b $3.1079 · us-east-1f $2.8708 · us-east-1a $2.8474 · us-east-1d $2.3776
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 → i8g.metal-24xl (-34%)| Type | $/h | Price Δ | vCPU per $ Δ | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| i8g.metal-24xl Graviton arch change | $8.2368 | -34% | +51% | $3,094 |
| i7i.metal-24xl | $9.0605 | -27% | +38% | $2,493 |
| i8ge.metal-24xl Graviton arch change | $11.3904 | -9% | +10% | $792 |
Cheapest regions for i7ie.metal-24xl
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs us-east-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $12.4752 | current | — |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $12.4752 | 0.0% | $0 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $12.4752 | 0.0% | $0 |
| EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1 | $13.0824 | +5% | $-443 |
| Mexico (Central) mx-central-1 | $13.0992 | +5% | $-456 |
| Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5 | $13.4630 | +8% | $-721 |
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 (us-east-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-06 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $2.8474 |
| 2026-11-05 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $2.8752 |
| 2026-11-04 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $2.9296 |
| 2026-11-03 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $2.9553 |
| 2026-11-02 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0043 |
| 2026-10-31 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0135 |
| 2026-10-30 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0188 |
| 2026-10-29 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0409 |
| 2026-10-28 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0975 |
| 2026-10-27 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0940 |
| 2026-10-26 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0927 |
| 2026-10-25 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0903 |
| 2026-10-22 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0927 |
| 2026-10-21 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.1284 |
| 2026-10-18 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.1527 |
| 2026-10-17 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.1328 |
| 2026-10-15 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0588 |
| 2026-10-12 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0535 |
| 2026-10-11 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0760 |
| 2026-10-10 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0906 |
| 2026-10-09 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.1370 |
| 2026-10-08 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.1715 |
| 2026-10-07 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.1752 |
| 2026-10-06 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.1787 |
| 2026-10-05 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.1594 |
| 2026-10-04 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.1555 |
| 2026-10-03 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.1485 |
| 2026-10-02 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.1184 |
| 2026-10-01 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0790 |
| 2026-09-29 | $12.4752 | $16.8912 | — | — | $3.0435 |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 96
- Cores / threads per core
- 48 / 2
- Memory
- 768 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 8.00 GiB
- Processor
- Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids)
- Architecture
- x86_64
- Sustained clock
- 3.2 GHz
- Hypervisor
- —
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- Yes
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- 100 Gigabit
- Network baseline / burst
- 100.0 / 100.0 Gbps
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- 15 × 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
- legacy-bios
- Spot supported
- Yes
Public AWS list prices (USD), refreshed nightly (catalog 2026-11-06). 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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