Machine Learning ASIC Instances EC2 instances
AWS groups 13 current EC2 instance types into the machine learning asic instances family, across 6 series. The median Linux on-demand price in US East is $0.0676 per vCPU-hour, and 0.0% of these types run on Arm-based Graviton processors.
By median price per vCPU, the cheapest series is inf1 (Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL (Cascade Lake), $0.0492 per vCPU-hour) and the dearest is trn1n (Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake), $0.1936). Unit price is not everything: newer processors do more work per vCPU, and some series add local NVMe storage or faster networking. The table lists every current series with its size count, unit price and memory per vCPU, so you can shortlist by shape first and price second.
Among x86 types, AMD EPYC instances sit at a median of $0.0676 per vCPU-hour and Intel Xeon at $0.0929. Prices span from the inf1.xlarge (4 vCPUs, 8 GiB) at $0.2280/hour, about $166 a month, to the trn1n.32xlarge (128 vCPUs, 512 GiB) at $24.78/hour, about $18,089 a month.
| Series | Processor | Sizes | $/vCPU-h | GiB/vCPU |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| inf1 | Intel Xeon Platinum 8275CL (Cascade Lake) | 4 | $0.0492 | 2.0 |
| inf2 | AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor | 4 | $0.0676 | 4.0 |
| dl2q | Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake) | 1 | $0.0929 | 8.0 |
| dl1 | Intel Xeon Platinum 8275L | 1 | $0.1366 | 8.0 |
| trn1 | Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake) | 2 | $0.1680 | 4.0 |
| trn1n | Intel Xeon Scalable (Icelake) | 1 | $0.1936 | 4.0 |