Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML Pricing

With Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, you can reserve just the amount of GPU capacity you need to run your machine learning workloads. EC2 Capacity Blocks pricing consists of a reservation fee and an operating system fee. Prices and examples of these fees are provided below. Learn more about EC2 Capacity Blocks.

The reservation fee is charged up front at the time you schedule the reservation. Reservation prices are updated regularly based on trends in supply and demand for EC2 Capacity Blocks. The current prices are scheduled to be updated on July 1, 2024. Your Capacity Block is charged at the prevailing rate at the time of purchase, even if the Capacity Block is scheduled to start after the price is updated. The current reservation rates are shown in the table below.

When you use an EC2 Capacity Block, you pay for the operating system you use when your instances are running. Linux, Ubuntu Pro, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and RHEL with HA operating system prices are billed at per-second granularity. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is 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.

Notice: Red Hat is making an update to their cloud pricing model for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). On July 1, 2024 pricing for EC2 RHEL will change to a per-vCPU-hour based pricing model. Learn about the new prices in the RHEL on AWS Pricing page.

On March 20, 2024 you purchase an EC2 Capacity Block for four p5.48xlarge instances in the US East (Ohio) region with a start date of March 29, 2023 and an end date of March 31, 2024 (reservation duration of 48 hours). At the time of purchase, the effective instance hourly rate for p5.48xlarge instances in the US East (Ohio) region is $39.33 USD. When your EC2 Capacity Block reservation begins, you launch all four instances into the reservation using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system at the reservation start time. You run your instances continuously and terminate them one hour before your reservation expiration time. The total price you pay is calculated as follows: 

On March 8, 2024 you purchase an EC2 Capacity Block for two p4d.24xlarge instances in the US West (Oregon) region with a start date of April 25, 2024 and an end date of April 28, 2024 (reservation duration of 72 hours). At the time of purchase, the effective instance hourly rate of p4d.24xlarge instances in the US West (Oregon) is $14.75 USD. When your EC2 Capacity Block reservation begins, you launch both instances into the reservation using the Ubuntu Pro 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: