m6a.48xlarge is AWS's general-purpose EC2 size at 192 vCPU and 768 GiB. In the name, "m" is the general-purpose line, "6" is the generation, "a" marks AMD processors and "48xlarge" is the size within the m6a family. It runs on AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor at 3.6 GHz, and AWS introduced it in November 2021. AWS has since shipped m7a, m8a and m9g; m7a.48xlarge is the direct replacement at this size, scoring 5,871,260 CoreMark/s against this instance's 3,589,456 — roughly 64% more throughput for the same vCPU count. The closest Spot shape is gp.vs2.2xlarge at 16 vCPU, so this instance maps to 12 of them — 192 vCPU and 768 GiB across the fleet, about 94% below the US East (N. Virginia) on-demand rate. Spot delivers compute as managed Kubernetes, so a node pool of that size is the native shape of the answer rather than a workaround — provided the workload scales horizontally.
| Region | AWS on-demand | AWS Spot | 1-yr Reserved | 3-yr Reserved | Rackspace Spot | You save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US East, N. Virginia | $8.294 | $2.626 | $5.487 | $3.762 | $0.492 | $7.802 savings |
| US Central, Chicago | no AWS region | $0.492 | ||||
| US Central, Dallas | no AWS region | $0.612 | ||||
| Hong Kong | $0.132 | |||||
| Sydney, Australia | $10.368 | $3.437 | $6.858 | $4.703 | $1.932 | $8.436 savings |
| London, UK | $9.590 | $2.221 | $6.335 | $4.360 | $2.652 | $6.938 savings |
| US West, San Jose | $9.677 | $1.887 | $6.382 | $4.409 | $1.812 | $7.865 savings |
| US Central, Dallas 2 | no AWS region | $0.012 | ||||
| US East, N. Virginia 2 | $8.294 | $2.626 | $5.487 | $3.762 | $1.812 | $6.482 savings |