Instances›AWS EC2›x8i›x8i.metal-96xl
Compute
vCPUs384
Memory6144 GiB
Mem / vCPU16.00 GiB
ProcessorXeon Scalable
Clock speed3.9 GHz
Architecturex86_64
Storage
TypeEBS only
Bandwidth80,000 Mbps
Throughput10000 MB/s
IOPS480,000
Networking
Performance100 Gigabit
Max ENIs24
IPv6Yes
GPUNone
Family sizes
x8i.large2 vCPU · 32 GiB
x8i.xlarge4 vCPU · 64 GiB
x8i.2xlarge8 vCPU · 128 GiB
x8i.4xlarge16 vCPU · 256 GiB
x8i.8xlarge32 vCPU · 512 GiB
x8i.12xlarge48 vCPU · 768 GiB
x8i.16xlarge64 vCPU · 1024 GiB
x8i.24xlarge96 vCPU · 1536 GiB
x8i.32xlarge128 vCPU · 2048 GiB
x8i.48xlarge192 vCPU · 3072 GiB
x8i.metal-48xl192 vCPU · 3072 GiB
x8i.64xlarge256 vCPU · 4096 GiB
x8i.96xlarge384 vCPU · 6144 GiB
x8i.metal-96xl384 vCPU · 6144 GiB
x8i.metal-96xl

The x8i.metal-96xl pairs 384 vCPU with 6144 GiB of RAM, the 16.00 GiB-per-vCPU ratio that marks a memory-optimized instance. In the name, "x" is the extra-memory line, "8" is the generation, "i" marks Intel processors and "metal-96xl" is the size within the x8i family. It runs on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) at 3.9 GHz, and AWS introduced it in January 2026. x8i is the current generation of the x family, so there is no newer AWS size to migrate to. Spot's largest VM is 16 vCPU and 128 GiB, so matching this instance would take 44 × 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 qualityVirtualised, not bare metal

x8i.metal-96xl is a full physical server — no virtualisation layer in the way, direct access to the hardware, and a socket count that licensing can verify.

Rackspace Spot no longer sells bare metal; everything in the catalog is a virtual machine. You get the same cores and memory (44 × mh.vs1.2xlarge, 704 vCPU, 5,632 GiB), but not the dedicated hardware. If you picked x8i.metal-96xl because you needed the real machine — nested virtualisation, per-socket licensing, low-level profiling — this is not a replacement at any price. If you picked it because it is the biggest x8i, it is the same compute for a lot less.

Pricing by region
1 hr
RegionAWS on-demandAWS Spot1-yr Reserved3-yr ReservedRackspace SpotYou save
US East, N. Virginia$48.744$5.170$0.924
$47.820 savings
US Central, Chicagono AWS region$0.924
US Central, Dallasno AWS region$5.764
Hong Kong$0.924
Sydney, Australia$58.385$5.838$0.924
$57.461 savings
London, UK$5.764
US West, San Jose$0.088
US Central, Dallas 2no AWS region$10.648
When to use it
Good for
  • ●In-memory caches such as Redis and Memcached
  • ●Large JVM heaps and application servers that hold state
  • ●OLAP and business intelligence query engines
  • ●Workloads that fit inside 6144 GiB of RAM
  • ●Parallel work that can occupy 384 vCPU
  • ●Network-heavy services — AWS rates this size at 100 Gigabit
Avoid if
  • ●The working set needs more than 6144 GiB of RAM
  • ●You need dedicated hardware. Rackspace Spot sells virtualised compute only.
  • ●You want a single-machine Spot equivalent. At this size there is not one.
  • ●The work is single-threaded. Most of these 384 vCPU would sit idle.
  • ●Local NVMe or instance-store disk is a hard requirement
  • ●GPU or FPGA acceleration is needed
x8i.metal-96xl is $35,583/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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