EC2 prices in Europe (Ireland)
eu-west-1
Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1) offers 1067 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 12% higher than in N. Virginia.
Of the 1057 types sold both here and in N. Virginia, 1057 cost more here, 0 cost less and 0 cost the same. The largest premium is on the inf2.24xlarge, at 25% above the N. Virginia rate. 153 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 ($0.0282 per vCPU-hour), f1.4xlarge for fpga instances ($0.2269 per vCPU-hour), t4g.nano for general purpose ($0.00230 per vCPU-hour), vt1.24xlarge for media accelerator instances ($0.0612 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 | $1.81 | $0.0282 |
| FPGA Instances | f1.4xlarge | 16 | 244 GiB | $3.63 | $0.2269 |
| General purpose | t4g.nano | 2 | 0.5 GiB | $0.00460 | $0.00230 |
| Media Accelerator Instances | vt1.24xlarge | 96 | 192 GiB | $5.87 | $0.0612 |
| Memory optimized | r6g.medium | 1 | 8 GiB | $0.0564 | $0.0564 |
| Storage optimized | h1.4xlarge | 16 | 64 GiB | $1.04 | $0.0649 |