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r6gd.16xlarge.search pricing and specs in US West (Oregon)

64 vCPU · 512 GiB · · graviton Graviton

$6.1190/hour on-demand · $4,467/month (Default, Default)

r6gd.16xlarge.search is a memory-optimized OpenSearch instance with 64 vCPU and 512 GiB, generation 6 of the r family on AWS Graviton (Arm). On-demand it costs $6.1190 an hour, about $4,467 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $4.2220 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 $2.9371 an hour, 52% below on-demand. The newer r7g.16xlarge.search offers the same size for $5.6890 an hour, 7% less. Across regions the cheapest place to run r6gd.16xlarge.search is Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) at $3.9680 an hour, 35% below US West (Oregon).

Pricing by platform (hourly, USD, Default)

OptionDefault
On-Demand$6.1190
1y Std RI NU$4.2220
1y Std RI PU$4.0999
1y Std RI AU$3.9773
3y Std RI NU$3.1820
3y Std RI PU$3.0598
3y Std RI AU$2.9371

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$/hPrice ΔvCPU per $ ΔSaves / mo
r7g.16xlarge.search Graviton$5.6890-7%+8%$314
r8g.16xlarge.search Graviton$6.2590+2%-2%$-102
r7i.16xlarge.search arch change$6.7740+11%-10%$-478
r7gd.16xlarge.search Graviton$7.2290+18%-15%$-810
r8gd.16xlarge.search Graviton$7.8070+28%-22%$-1,232

Cheapest regions for r6gd.16xlarge.search

RegionOn-Demand $/hvs us-west-2Saves / mo
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$3.9680-35%$1,570
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$6.11900.0%$0
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$6.11900.0%$0
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$6.1190current—
Canada (Central) ca-central-1$6.7140+10%$-434
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$6.7990+11%$-496

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.

DateOD DefaultOD Windows1y RI3y RISpot p50
2026-09-22$6.1190—$4.2220$3.1820—

All attributes

vCPU
64
Cores / threads per core
—
Memory
512 GiB
Memory per vCPU
8.00 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
2 × 1900 GB NVMe SSD
GPU
—
Placement groups
—
Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
— / —
Dedicated hosts
—
Boot modes
—
Spot supported
—

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