EC2 hpc7a instance prices

The hpc7a series is a compute optimized EC2 line running on AMD EPYC 9R14. It has 4 sizes, from the hpc7a.12xlarge with 24 vCPUs and 768 GiB to the hpc7a.96xlarge with 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB, and it is very memory-heavy with a median of 12.0 GiB per vCPU.

In US East the Linux on-demand price runs from $7.20/hour to $7.20/hour, or $5,256 to $5,256 a month. The median price per vCPU-hour across the series is $0.1125.

Price per vCPU-hour is not flat across the series: the hpc7a.96xlarge is the cheapest per vCPU at $0.0375 and the hpc7a.12xlarge the dearest at $0.3000, a 700% gap, so the size you choose changes your unit cost as well as your total. All sizes are sold in the same 2 of the 12 regions we track. Each size below links to a page with prices in every tracked region, reserved-instance savings, Windows pricing and cheaper alternatives of the same shape.