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The ecs.r5.16xlarge is a memory optimised instance in the r5 family with 64 vCPU and 512 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon (Skylake) Platinum 8163 / Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake) Platinum 8269CY. It costs $2,943.36 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (Virginia) and is offered in 19 regions.
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1 Nov 2026
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| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 110pod cap | $26.76 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 110pod cap | $26.76 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 110pod cap | $26.76 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 63cpu | $46.72 |
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.
No grid or power data for this type in us-east-1.
| $2,943.36 | — | — | ||
| $3,069.65 | — | — | ||
| $3,106.88 | — | — | ||
| $3,156.52 | — | — | ||
| $3,222.95 | — | — | ||
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| $3,550.72 | — | — |
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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