Per-hour pricing

Region	AWS on-demand	AWS Spot	Rackspace Spot	You save
US East, N. Virginia	$0.139	$0.037	$0.011	$0.128 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US Central, Chicago	no AWS region		$0.021
US Central, Dallas	no AWS region		$0.041
Hong Kong			$0.002
Sydney, Australia	$0.167	$0.051	$0.011	$0.155 savingsBuild Cloudspace
London, UK	$0.163	$0.044	$0.011	$0.152 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US West, San Jose	$0.154	$0.037	$0.031	$0.123 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US Central, Dallas 2	no AWS region		$0.031

Monthly pricing (730 hrs)

Region	AWS on-demand	AWS Spot	Rackspace Spot	You save
US East, N. Virginia	$101	$27	$8	$93 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US Central, Chicago	no AWS region		$15
US Central, Dallas	no AWS region		$30
Hong Kong			$1
Sydney, Australia	$122	$37	$8	$114 savingsBuild Cloudspace
London, UK	$119	$32	$8	$111 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US West, San Jose	$113	$27	$23	$90 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US Central, Dallas 2	no AWS region		$23

Instances›AWS EC2›r8i›r8i.large

Compute

vCPUs2

Memory16 GiB

Mem / vCPU8.00 GiB

ProcessorXeon Scalable

Clock speed3.9 GHz

Architecturex86_64

Storage

TypeEBS only

Bandwidth10,000 Mbps

Throughput1250 MB/s

IOPS40,000

Networking

PerformanceUp to 12.5 Gigabit

Max ENIs3

IPv6Yes

GPUNone

Family sizes

r8i.large2 vCPU · 16 GiB

r8i.xlarge4 vCPU · 32 GiB

r8i.2xlarge8 vCPU · 64 GiB

r8i.4xlarge16 vCPU · 128 GiB

r8i.8xlarge32 vCPU · 256 GiB

r8i.12xlarge48 vCPU · 384 GiB

r8i.16xlarge64 vCPU · 512 GiB

r8i.24xlarge96 vCPU · 768 GiB

r8i.32xlarge128 vCPU · 1024 GiB

r8i.48xlarge192 vCPU · 1536 GiB

r8i.metal-48xl192 vCPU · 1536 GiB

r8i.96xlarge384 vCPU · 3072 GiB

r8i.metal-96xl384 vCPU · 3072 GiB

r8i.large

r8i.large is AWS's memory-optimized EC2 size at 2 vCPU and 16 GiB. In the name, "r" stands for RAM, "8" is the generation, "i" marks Intel processors and "large" is the size within the r8i family. It runs on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) at 3.9 GHz, and AWS introduced it in August 2025. AWS has since shipped r9g; r9g.large is the direct replacement at this size. On Rackspace Spot the same shape is mh.vs2.medium — 2 vCPU, 16 GiB, matched on both dimensions, about 92% below the US East (N. Virginia) on-demand rate.

Pricing by region

1 hr

Region	AWS on-demand	AWS Spot	Rackspace Spot	You save
US East, N. Virginia	$0.139	$0.037	$0.011	$0.128 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US Central, Chicago	no AWS region		$0.021
US Central, Dallas	no AWS region		$0.041
Hong Kong			$0.002
Sydney, Australia	$0.167	$0.051	$0.011	$0.155 savingsBuild Cloudspace
London, UK	$0.163	$0.044	$0.011	$0.152 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US West, San Jose	$0.154	$0.037	$0.031	$0.123 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US Central, Dallas 2	no AWS region		$0.031

When to use it

Good for

●Database instances that keep the working set in RAM
●Graph and search workloads with large indexes
●In-memory caches such as Redis and Memcached
●Workloads that fit inside 16 GiB of RAM
●Small, steady services that do not need more than 2 vCPU
●Network-heavy services — AWS rates this size at Up to 12.5 Gigabit

Avoid if

●The working set needs more than 16 GiB of RAM
●CPU-bound work. You are paying for memory this workload will not use.
●More than 8.00 GiB of RAM per vCPU is needed — that ratio is fixed for the whole family
●Local NVMe or instance-store disk is a hard requirement
●GPU or FPGA acceleration is needed

Stop overpaying AWS. This compute costs $101/mo on AWS vs $8/mo on Rackspace Spot.

Spot sells spare capacity at market prices. It is the cheapest compute on the internet.
Prices are set by supply and demand. You pay what the market decides.
Compute is delivered as fully managed Kubernetes. All infrastructure is taken care of.
Egress costs $0.01/GB after the free allowance. AWS charges $0.09/GB.

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