u7in-32tb.224xlarge

Analysis

The u7in-32tb.224xlarge is a memory optimized instance in the u7in-32tb series with 896 vCPUs and 32768 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) (up to 2.9 GHz), which makes it very memory-heavy at 36.57 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Within the same generation and size, the u7i-12tb.224xlarge on Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) costs $126/hour, 65% less ($171,846 a month). The other variants are the u7in-16tb.224xlarge at $180 and the u7in-24tb.224xlarge at $271.

Per vCPU it is one of the dearer memory optimized types: 100% of the 385 current types in the family cost less than its $0.4029 per vCPU-hour. The premium mostly pays for the very fast networking. On demand it is $361/hour in US East (N. Virginia), or $263,520 for a 730-hour month.

Its price is almost flat across the 2 regions that offer it ($361 to $361/hour), so latency and data residency should decide where it runs. It is not offered in Ohio, Canada Central, São Paulo, Ireland, London, Frankfurt, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo, so plan around that if you need a presence there.

Reserving it for a year with no upfront payment cuts the Linux rate to $222/hour, which beats on demand once it runs more than 62% of the time; three years brings it to $116/hour, 68% below on demand. Windows Server roughly adds 11% to the bill at $402/hour, because the licence is charged per vCPU.