The c8a.12xlarge is a compute optimised instance in the c8a family with 48 vCPU and 96 GiB of memory on AMD EPYC 9R45. It costs $1,888.13 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 7 regions.
The list price has not changed in this window. Spot moves with demand and is read every few minutes.
First year, 3 instances
Spot saves $45,432 a year
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 is the same at every size, so pick the size that fits.
927.4g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
677 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 3× the cleanest.
| $1,888.13 | $575.53 | 70% | 589 | |
| $1,888.13 | $626.12 | 67% | 927 | |
| $1,888.13 | $539.84 | 71% | 1,367 | |
| $2,025.49 | $202.58 | 90% | 441 | |
| $2,025.84 | $841.18 | 58% | 909 | |
| $2,154.78 | $555.31 | 74% | 972 | |
| $2,376.76 | $801.69 | 66% | 1,456 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/c8a.12xlarge?region=us-east-1"
List prices from AWS in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. AWS pricing page