EC2 u-6tb1 instance prices

The u-6tb1 series is a memory optimized EC2 line running on Intel Xeon Scalable (Skylake). It has 2 sizes, from the u-6tb1.56xlarge with 224 vCPUs and 6144 GiB to the u-6tb1.112xlarge with 448 vCPUs and 6144 GiB, and it is very memory-heavy with a median of 20.6 GiB per vCPU.

In US East the Linux on-demand price runs from $46.40/hour to $54.60/hour, or $33,875 to $39,858 a month. The median price per vCPU-hour across the series is $0.1645.

Price per vCPU-hour is not flat across the series: the u-6tb1.112xlarge is the cheapest per vCPU at $0.1219 and the u-6tb1.56xlarge the dearest at $0.2072, a 70% gap, so the size you choose changes your unit cost as well as your total. All sizes are sold in the same 12 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.