db.x2idn.24xlarge pricing and specs in EU (Ireland)
96 vCPU · 1536 GiB · 75 Gbps · Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake
$32.0830/hour on-demand · $23,421/month (MySQL, Single-AZ)
db.x2idn.24xlarge is a high-memory RDS instance with 96 vCPU and 1536 GiB, generation 2 of the x family. On-demand it costs $32.0830 an hour, about $23,421 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $24.7041 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 562 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $17.0041 an hour, 47% below on-demand. The newer db.x2iedn.24xlarge offers the same size for $54.7920 an hour, 71% more. Across regions the cheapest place to run db.x2idn.24xlarge is Canada (Central) (ca-central-1) at $29.3950 an hour, 8% below EU (Ireland).
Pricing by engine (hourly, USD, Single-AZ)
| Option | MySQL | PostgreSQL | MariaDB | Aurora MySQL | Aurora PostgreSQL | Oracle SE2 | SQL Server Express | SQL Server Web | SQL Server Standard | SQL Server Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $32.0830 | $32.0830 | $32.0830 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1y Std RI NU | $24.7041 | — | $24.7041 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1y Std RI PU | $24.0624 | — | $24.0624 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1y Std RI AU | $23.4208 | — | $23.4208 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3y Std RI PU | $17.6458 | — | $17.6458 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3y Std RI AU | $17.0041 | — | $17.0041 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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.
No Graviton equivalent at this size| Type | $/h | Price Δ | vCPU per $ Δ | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| db.x2iedn.24xlarge | $54.7920 | +71% | -41% | $-16,578 |
Cheapest regions for db.x2idn.24xlarge
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs eu-west-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada (Central) ca-central-1 | $29.3950 | -8% | $1,962 |
| EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1 | $30.4900 | -5% | $1,163 |
| EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 | $32.0830 | current | — |
| EU (Milan) eu-south-1 | $33.6770 | +5% | $-1,164 |
| EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 | $37.4210 | +17% | $-3,897 |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2 | $38.7650 | +21% | $-4,878 |
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.
| Date | OD MySQL | OD Windows | 1y RI | 3y RI | Spot p50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 | $32.0830 | — | $24.7041 | — | — |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 96
- Cores / threads per core
- —
- Memory
- 1536 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 16.00 GiB
- Processor
- Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake
- Architecture
- x86_64
- Sustained clock
- —
- Hypervisor
- —
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- 75 Gbps
- 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 × 1425 GB NVMe SSD
- 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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