The m8a.16xlarge is a general purpose instance in the m8a family with 64 vCPU and 256 GiB of memory on AMD EPYC 9R45. It costs $2,843.38 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 9 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 $74,946 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.
1,661g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
1,212.5 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 5× the cleanest.
| $2,843.38 | $761.54 | 73% | 1,661 | |
| $2,843.38 | $814.97 | 71% | 2,449 | |
| $2,843.38 | $1,146.83 | 60% | 1,054 | |
| $2,991.25 | $299.15 | 90% | 3,645 | |
| $2,991.48 | $550.20 | 82% | 3,648 | |
| $3,169.02 | $639.41 | 80% | 790 | |
| $3,169.02 | $1,390.58 | 56% | 1,628 | |
| $3,405.89 | $1,181.94 | 65% | 1,741 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/m8a.16xlarge?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