r8id.96xlarge

Analysis

The r8id.96xlarge is a memory optimized instance in the r8id series with 384 vCPUs and 3072 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) (up to 3.9 GHz), which makes it memory-heavy at 8 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Within the same generation and size, the r8i.96xlarge on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) costs $26.67/hour, 16% less ($3,840 a month). The other variants are the r8ib.96xlarge at $40.17, the r8in.96xlarge at $40.17 and the r8idn.96xlarge at $45.02.

Running it in N. Virginia instead of Tokyo saves $4,857 a month per instance: $31.93/hour against $38.59/hour, a 21% spread. It is not offered in São Paulo and Singapore, so plan around that if you need a presence there.

It has local instance storage (6 x 3800 GB NVMe SSD), which is fast but lost when the instance stops. Network: 100000 Megabit.

On demand it costs $31.93/hour in US East (N. Virginia), $23,311 a month if left running, which puts it mid-table for memory optimized types at the 54th percentile per vCPU ($0.0832 per vCPU-hour) and the 71st percentile per GiB ($0.0104 per GiB-hour).

It is the largest of the 11 r8id sizes. Dropping to the r8id.48xlarge saves $11,656 a month.

Windows Server roughly adds 55% to the bill at $49.60/hour, because the licence is charged per vCPU.