Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML Pricing

With Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, you pay only for what you reserve. The price of an EC2 Capacity Block depends on available supply and demand for EC2 Capacity Blocks at the time you purchase a reservation. You can view the price of an EC2 Capacity Block before you reserve it, and the price is charged up front at the time the reservation is made. Once reserved, the price does not change. 

When you use an EC2 Capacity Block, you pay for the operating system you use when your instances are running. Linux and Ubuntu Pro operating system prices are billed at per-second granularity. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), RHEL with HA, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) are billed at a flat, hourly rate (minimum one-hour billing). The pricing below shows the hourly rate you pay by the operating system you use for your instance. Learn more about EC2 Capacity Blocks.

On October 27, 2023 you purchase an EC2 Capacity Block for four p5.48xlarge instances with a start date of November 3, 2023 and an end date of November 5, 2023. At the time of purchase, the EC2 Capacity Block is priced at $19,968.00. When your EC2 Capacity Block reservation begins, you launch all four instances into the reservation using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system 15 minutes after the reservation start time. You run your instances continuously and terminate them 45 minutes before your reservation expiration time. The total price you pay is calculated as follows: 

Reservation upfront fee: $19,968.00 USD

On March 8, 2023 you purchase an EC2 Capacity Block for two p5.48xlarge instances with a start date of April 25, 2023 and an end date of April 28, 2023. At the time of purchase, the EC2 Capacity Block is priced at $13,680.00. When your EC2 Capacity Block reservation begins, you launch both instances into the reservation using the Linux operating system at the reservation start time. You run your instances continuously and terminate them two hours before your reservation expiration time. The total price you pay is calculated as follows: 

Reservation upfront fee: $13,680.00 USD