d3.8xlarge · EC2 Prices

d Dense storage

3 Generation 3

8xlarge 32 vCPU · 256 GiB

$3.317/hr

1-yr reserved in Frankfurt

On-demand 1-yr 3-yr

32 vCPU

Xeon Cascade Lake, 3.1 GHz

256 GiB

8 GiB per vCPU

48 TB HDD

Local storage

25 Gbps

Network bandwidth

5 Gbps

EBS bandwidth

x86_64

Architecture

Every way to pay

Prices in Frankfurt. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$3,843	$46,117
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$2,421	$29,054	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$1,660	$19,923	−57%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$3,843

$46,117

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$2,421

$29,054

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$1,660

$19,923

−57%

What will it cost me?

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× d3.8xlarge, on-demand

/mo

a year

You run these most of the time. A 1-year reservation bills every hour, and would still cost /mo.

Same usage on each plan	Monthly	Yearly
On-demand
Reserved 1 yr
Reserved 3 yr

Reservations bill every hour of the month, whether the instance runs or not.

Other sizes in this family

Price roughly doubles with each step. Pick a size to open it.

$0.415 xl $0.829 2xl $1.66 4xl $3.32 8xl

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (N. Virginia). Moving from Frankfurt would save $7,003 a year per instance.

US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$2.517 −24%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$2.517 −24%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$2.517 −24%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$2.639 −20%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$2.773 −16%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$3.016 −9%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$3.071 −7%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$3.155 −5%

Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$3.155 −5%Europe (London) eu-west-2$3.224 −3%Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$3.224 −3%Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$3.224 −3%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$3.317 base Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$3.648 +10%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$3.650 +10%

Not offered in N. California , Calgary , Central , São Paulo , US-East , Stockholm , Milan , Spain , Hyderabad , Jakarta , Melbourne , Malaysia , New Zealand , Thailand , Seoul , Osaka , Hong Kong , Taipei , UAE , Bahrain , Cape Town .

Same shape, other families

Every instance with 32 vCPU · 256 GiB in Frankfurt, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/hr	vs d3.8xlarge
r6g.8xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$1.226	−63%
r7g.8xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$1.367	−59%
r5a.8xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	EBS only	$1.379	−58%
r6gd.8xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	1.9 TB NVMe	$1.394	−58%
r6a.8xlarge	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$1.448	−56%
r8g.8xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$1.504	−55%
r5.8xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$1.532	−54%
r5ad.8xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	1.2 TB NVMe	$1.593	−52%
r6i.8xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$1.609	−51%
r7gd.8xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	1.9 TB NVMe	$1.648	−50%
r7i.8xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$1.689	−49%
r5d.8xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	1.2 TB NVMe	$1.744	−47%
r5n.8xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$1.794	−46%
r5b.8xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$1.794	−46%
r6id.8xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	1.9 TB NVMe	$1.831	−45%
r7a.8xlarge	EPYC Genoa	Gen 7	EBS only	$1.943	−41%
r5dn.8xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	1.2 TB NVMe	$2.006	−40%
r6in.8xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$2.099	−37%
i4i.8xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 4	7.5 TB NVMe	$2.134	−36%
r7iz.8xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$2.268	−32%
r6idn.8xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	1.9 TB NVMe	$2.347	−29%
d3.8xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Newest	48 TB HDD	$3.317	—

Specifications

API name: d3.8xlarge
Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
Local storage: 24 × 2 TB HDD
Family: Storage optimized
Clock speed: 3.1 GHz
Network: 25 Gbps
Generation: Newest
Architecture: x86_64
EBS bandwidth: 5 Gbps
vCPUs: 32
Memory: 256 GiB
GPUs: None