The ecs.i1.8xlarge is a storage optimised instance in the i1 family with 32 vCPU and 128 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon E5-2682v4. It costs $1,321.30 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (Virginia) and is offered in 10 regions.
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1 Nov 2026
Tracking began
The list price has never changed in us-east-1 since then.
No spot price recorded in us-east-1.
| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 110pod cap | $12.01 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 110pod cap | $12.01 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 63cpu | $20.97 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 29memory | $45.56 |
Node share from GKE's published kube-reserved formula plus a 100 MiB eviction threshold; EKS and AKS keep similar amounts. DaemonSets take more on top. At most 110 pods per node, the kubelet default.
First year, 3 instances
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not.
Bars are on-demand per hour; the teal mark is spot. Price per vCPU varies by 36% across sizes.
No grid or power data for this type in us-east-1.
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curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/alibaba/ecs.i1.8xlarge?region=us-east-1"
List prices from Alibaba Cloud in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. Alibaba pricing page