The r3.8xlarge is a memory optimised instance in the r3 family with 32 vCPU and 244 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge). It costs $1,941.80 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 12 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 $52,783 a year
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not. A 1-yr reservation is cheaper once these run more than 16 h a day.
2,352.1g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
1,717 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 11× the cleanest.
| $1,938.88 | $453.55 | 77% | 3,468 | |
| $1,941.80 | $475.59 | 76% | 2,352 | |
| $1,941.80 | $637.44 | 67% | 1,493 | |
| $2,163.72 | $801.47 | 63% | 2,305 | |
| $2,163.72 | $391.21 | 82% | 1,456 | |
| $2,213.36 | $485.30 | 78% | 5,165 | |
| $2,330.16 | $914.40 | 61% | 2,980 | |
| $2,330.16 | $673.21 | 71% | 5,763 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/r3.8xlarge?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