EC2 prices in Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
ap-northeast-1
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1) offers 1069 of the current EC2 instance types we track. For types sold both here and in US East (N. Virginia), the median Linux on-demand price is 26% higher than in N. Virginia.
Of the 1062 types sold both here and in N. Virginia, 1062 cost more here, 0 cost less and 0 cost the same. The largest premium is on the p2.xlarge, at 71% above the N. Virginia rate. 151 current types sold elsewhere are not offered in this region at all, usually the newest or most specialised series.
The lowest price per vCPU in each family here comes from hpc7g.16xlarge for compute optimized ($0.0330 per vCPU-hour), f2.6xlarge for fpga instances ($0.1114 per vCPU-hour), t4g.nano for general purpose ($0.00270 per vCPU-hour), vt1.6xlarge for media accelerator instances ($0.0682 per vCPU-hour). These are on-demand Linux rates; reserved instances and Savings Plans cut them further, and each instance page shows the reserved rates for this region alongside every other region.
Cheapest per vCPU, by family
| Family | Type | vCPU | Memory | $/hour | $/vCPU-h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute optimized | hpc7g.16xlarge | 64 | 128 GiB | $2.11 | $0.0330 |
| FPGA Instances | f2.6xlarge | 24 | 256 GiB | $2.67 | $0.1114 |
| General purpose | t4g.nano | 2 | 0.5 GiB | $0.00540 | $0.00270 |
| Media Accelerator Instances | vt1.6xlarge | 24 | 48 GiB | $1.64 | $0.0682 |
| Memory optimized | r6g.medium | 1 | 8 GiB | $0.0608 | $0.0608 |
| Storage optimized | i3.2xlarge | 8 | 61 GiB | $0.7320 | $0.0915 |