g4ad.8xlarge pricing and specs in US West (Oregon)
32 vCPU · 128 GiB · 15 Gigabit · AMD EPYC 7R32
$1.7340/hour on-demand · $1,266/month (Linux, Shared)
g4ad.8xlarge is a GPU EC2 instance with 32 vCPU and 128 GiB, generation 4 of the g family. On-demand it costs $1.7340 an hour, about $1,266 a month if it runs all month. The newer g6.8xlarge offers the same size for $2.0144 an hour, 16% more. Across regions the cheapest place to run g4ad.8xlarge is US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) at $1.7340 an hour, 0% below US West (Oregon).
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE | Ubuntu Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $1.7340 | $3.2060 | $2.0796 | $1.8590 | $1.7900 |
| Spot | $0.7228 | $1.9317 | — | — | — |
Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): us-west-2a $0.6502 · us-west-2b $0.8031 · us-west-2c $0.7228
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 → g5g.8xlarge (-21%)| Type | $/h | Price Δ | vCPU per $ Δ | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| g5g.8xlarge Graviton arch change | $1.3720 | -21% | +26% | $264 |
| g6.8xlarge | $2.0144 | +16% | -14% | $-205 |
| g4dn.8xlarge | $2.1760 | +25% | -20% | $-323 |
| g5.8xlarge | $2.4480 | +41% | -29% | $-521 |
| g7.8xlarge | $4.0862 | +136% | -58% | $-1,717 |
| g6e.8xlarge | $4.5286 | +161% | -62% | $-2,040 |
| g7e.8xlarge | $5.2682 | +204% | -67% | $-2,580 |
Cheapest regions for g4ad.8xlarge
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs us-west-2 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $1.7340 | 0.0% | $0 |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $1.7340 | 0.0% | $0 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $1.7340 | current | — |
| Canada (Central) ca-central-1 | $1.9360 | +12% | $-147 |
| EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 | $1.9360 | +12% | $-147 |
| EU (London) eu-west-2 | $2.0280 | +17% | $-215 |
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-west-2)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-06 | $1.7340 | $3.2060 | — | — | $0.7228 |
| 2026-10-05 | $1.7340 | $3.2060 | — | — | $0.7084 |
| 2026-10-04 | $1.7340 | $3.2060 | — | — | $0.6701 |
| 2026-10-03 | $1.7340 | $3.2060 | — | — | $0.6576 |
| 2026-10-02 | $1.7340 | $3.2060 | — | — | $0.6483 |
| 2026-10-01 | $1.7340 | $3.2060 | — | — | $0.6417 |
| 2026-09-30 | $1.7340 | $3.2060 | — | — | $0.6368 |
| 2026-09-29 | $1.7340 | $3.2060 | — | — | $0.6348 |
| 2026-09-25 | $1.7340 | $3.2060 | — | — | $0.6338 |
| 2026-09-24 | $1.7340 | $3.2060 | — | — | $0.6343 |
| 2026-09-23 | $1.7340 | $3.2060 | — | — | $0.6351 |
| 2026-09-22 | $1.7340 | $3.2060 | — | — | $0.6356 |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 32
- Cores / threads per core
- —
- Memory
- 128 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 4.00 GiB
- Processor
- AMD EPYC 7R32
- Architecture
- x86_64
- Sustained clock
- 2.8 GHz
- Hypervisor
- —
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- 15 Gigabit
- Network baseline / burst
- —
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- —
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- — / ENA / —
- EBS optimized
- —
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- 3000.0 / ? Mbps
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- —
- EBS NVMe
- —
- Instance storage
- 1200 GB NVMe SSD
- GPU
- 2 × GPU (16.0 GiB total)
- Placement groups
- —
- Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
- — / —
- Dedicated hosts
- —
- Boot modes
- —
- Spot supported
- —
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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