m6g.8xlarge.search pricing and specs in US West (Oregon)
32 vCPU · 128 GiB · · graviton Graviton
$2.0450/hour on-demand · $1,493/month (Default, Default)
m6g.8xlarge.search is a general-purpose OpenSearch instance with 32 vCPU and 128 GiB, generation 6 of the m family on AWS Graviton (Arm). On-demand it costs $2.0450 an hour, about $1,493 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $1.4110 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 503 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $0.9816 an hour, 52% below on-demand. The newer m7g.8xlarge.search offers the same size for $2.1670 an hour, 6% more. Across regions the cheapest place to run m6g.8xlarge.search is Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) at $1.3440 an hour, 34% below US West (Oregon).
Pricing by platform (hourly, USD, Default)
| Option | Default |
|---|---|
| On-Demand | $2.0450 |
| 1y Std RI NU | $1.4110 |
| 1y Std RI PU | $1.3701 |
| 1y Std RI AU | $1.3293 |
| 3y Std RI NU | $1.0630 |
| 3y Std RI PU | $1.0223 |
| 3y Std RI AU | $0.9816 |
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.
Already Graviton| Type | $/h | Price Δ | vCPU per $ Δ | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| m7g.8xlarge.search Graviton | $2.1670 | +6% | -6% | $-89 |
| m8g.8xlarge.search Graviton | $2.3850 | +17% | -14% | $-248 |
| m7i.8xlarge.search arch change | $2.5800 | +26% | -21% | $-391 |
Cheapest regions for m6g.8xlarge.search
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs us-west-2 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1 | $1.3440 | -34% | $512 |
| Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2 | $1.3440 | -34% | $512 |
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $2.0450 | 0.0% | $0 |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $2.0450 | 0.0% | $0 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $2.0450 | current | — |
| Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5 | $2.1675 | +6% | $-89 |
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 Default | OD Windows | 1y RI | 3y RI | Spot p50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 | $2.0450 | — | $1.4110 | $1.0630 | — |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 32
- Cores / threads per core
- —
- Memory
- 128 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 4.00 GiB
- Processor
- graviton
- Architecture
- —
- Sustained clock
- —
- Hypervisor
- —
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- —
- Network baseline / burst
- —
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- —
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- — / — / —
- EBS optimized
- —
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- —
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- —
- EBS NVMe
- —
- Instance storage
- EBS only
- GPU
- —
- 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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