Instances›AWS EC2›u7i-12tb›u7i-12tb.224xlarge
Compute
vCPUs896
Memory12288 GiB
Mem / vCPU13.71 GiB
ProcessorXeon Scalable
Clock speed2.9 GHz
Architecturex86_64
Storage
TypeEBS only
Bandwidth100,000 Mbps
Throughput12500 MB/s
IOPS560,000
Networking
Performance100 Gigabit
Max ENIs15
IPv6Yes
GPUNone
Family sizes
u7i-12tb.224xlarge896 vCPU · 12288 GiB
u7i-12tb.224xlarge

The u7i-12tb.224xlarge is a memory-optimized AWS EC2 instance: 896 vCPU and 12288 GiB of memory, 13.71 GiB per vCPU. It runs on Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) at 2.9 GHz, and AWS introduced it in May 2024. Spot's largest VM is 16 vCPU and 128 GiB, so matching this instance would take 88 × mh.vs1.2xlarge — arithmetically true and operationally absurd. The Spot column below prices that whole fleet, so read it as a scale reference rather than a drop-in replacement: at this size the useful question is what a shard of the workload costs, which is $0.021/hr per node.

Match qualityNo single-node equivalent

u7i-12tb.224xlarge is 896 vCPU and 12,288 GiB. The largest comparable Spot node is mh.vs1.2xlarge at 16 vCPU and 128 GiB, so matching it would take 88 of them. That maths works out, but 88 nodes is a redesign rather than a migration — a single block of 12,288 GiB does not survive being split across a network.

If you chose u7i-12tb.224xlarge because the work genuinely needs 896 cores and 12,288 GiB together — an in-memory database, a large analytics engine, a single big solver — Rackspace Spot has no equivalent. What does fit is everything around it: the application servers, batch workers and CI that talk to that machine, which is usually the larger share of the bill.

Pricing by region
1 hr
RegionAWS on-demandAWS Spot1-yr Reserved3-yr ReservedRackspace SpotYou save
US East, N. Virginia$125.582$77.402$40.417$1.848
$123.734 savings
US Central, Chicagono AWS region$1.848
US Central, Dallasno AWS region$11.528
Hong Kong$1.848
Sydney, Australia$150.497$92.759$48.436$1.848
$148.649 savings
London, UK$11.528
US West, San Jose$0.175
US Central, Dallas 2no AWS region$21.175
When to use it
Good for
  • ●Large JVM heaps and application servers that hold state
  • ●OLAP and business intelligence query engines
  • ●Real-time analytics over hot datasets
  • ●Workloads that fit inside 12288 GiB of RAM
  • ●Parallel work that can occupy 896 vCPU
  • ●Network-heavy services — AWS rates this size at 100 Gigabit
Avoid if
  • ●The working set needs more than 12288 GiB of RAM
  • ●You want a single-machine Spot equivalent. At this size there is not one.
  • ●The work is single-threaded. Most of these 896 vCPU would sit idle.
  • ●Local NVMe or instance-store disk is a hard requirement
  • ●GPU or FPGA acceleration is needed
  • ●CPU-bound work. You are paying for memory this workload will not use.
u7i-12tb.224xlarge is $91,675/mo on AWS on-demand. A mh.vs1.2xlarge node on Rackspace Spot is $15/mo — at this size the per-node price is the honest comparison.
  • 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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