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r6g.8xlarge

The r6g.8xlarge instance is in the Memory optimized family with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 12 Gibps of bandwidth starting at $1.6128 per hour.

Pricing

$1.613

On Demand

$0.505

Spot

$1.016

1-Year Reserved

$0.697

3-Year Reserved

Family Sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)
r6g.medium	1	8
r6g.large	2	16
r6g.xlarge	4	32
r6g.2xlarge	8	64
r6g.4xlarge	16	128
r6g.8xlarge	32	256
r6g.12xlarge	48	384
r6g.16xlarge	64	512
r6g.metal	64	512

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Instance Variants

Variant
r6a
r6g
r6gd
r6i
r6id
r6idn
r6in

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Instance Details

Compute	Value
vCPUs	32
Memory (GiB)	256
Memory per vCPU (GiB)	8
Physical Processor	AWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed (GHz)	2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture	arm64
GPU	0
GPU Architecture	none
Video Memory (GiB)	0
GPU Compute Capability ?	0
FPGA	0

Networking	Value
Network Performance (Gibps)	12
Enhanced Networking	true
IPv6	true
Placement Group ?

Storage	Value
EBS Optimized	true
Max Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS	9500
Max Throughput (MB/s) on EBS	1187.5
Max I/O operations/second IOPS	40000
Baseline Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS	9500
Baseline Throughput (MB/s) on EBS	1187.5
Baseline I/O operations/second IOPS	40000
Devices	0
Swap Partition	false
NVME Drive ?	false
Disk Space (GiB)	0
SSD	false
Initialize Storage	false

Amazon	Value
Generation	current
Instance Type	r6g.8xlarge
Family	Memory optimized
Name	R6G Eight Extra Large
Elastic Map Reduce EMR	true

Updated 8/24/2026, 3:36:38 PM

r6g.8xlarge pricing and specs - Bigbell