What are you running?

Start from a workload or set the minimums yourself. We pick the cheapest instance that meets every one.

Web or API server Stateless, scales out Database Memory and fast disk Cache Redis, Memcached CI and batch jobs Bursty, retry-safe Model inference Serve a 7–13B model Model training Multi-GPU, big VRAM

CPU at least 8 vCPU

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Any Arm (Graviton) x86 only

For these needs Arm is 11% cheaper than x86. Pick x86 if you run Windows or x86-only binaries.

Network (EBS) is fine Fast local NVMe

Not sure A year or more Three years

533 instances meet your needs in N. Virginia, priced 3-yr reserved.

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g Graviton (Arm)

2xlarge 8 vCPU · 32 GiB

$85/mo

$0.1161 an hour

8 vCPU Graviton2

32 GiB 4 GiB per vCPU

EBS only Local disk

Up to 5 Gbps Network

Cheapest match. Meets every requirement, with 16 GiB extra memory at no cost. Full details