AWS — P5 (H100) Capacity Block
AWS P5 (H100) Capacity Block is a reserved EC2 p5.48xlarge instance with 8 NVIDIA H100 GPUs.
- Price per GPU-hour
- $5.191
- Provider
- AWS
- GPU
- H100
- Form factor
- 8×H100 instance (p5.48xlarge)
- Billing
- Reserved/commit
- Region
- US East (N. Virginia)
- Instance type
- p5.48xlarge
- Checked
AWS lists EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML on the p5.48xlarge instance (8 NVIDIA H100 GPUs) at an effective $41.528 per hour, or $5.191 per accelerator-hour, in US East (N. Virginia) and US East (Ohio). Capacity Blocks are reserved ahead of time and the reservation fee is charged up front. AWS has announced that, effective October 7, 2026, the P5 rate will be $5.970 per accelerator-hour.
- Price basis
- Capacity Block effective hourly rate per accelerator as listed by AWS ($41.528 per instance-hour, 8 GPUs); fee paid up front
- Source
- aws.amazon.com
Questions
How much does an AWS P5 H100 Capacity Block cost per GPU-hour?
AWS lists an effective $5.191 per accelerator-hour, which is $41.528 per hour for the 8-GPU p5.48xlarge instance.
Is the AWS P5 Capacity Block price going up?
Yes. AWS has announced that, effective October 7, 2026, the P5 rate will be $5.970 per accelerator-hour.
Which AWS regions offer P5 Capacity Blocks?
AWS lists this rate in US East (N. Virginia) and US East (Ohio).
When do you pay for an AWS Capacity Block?
Capacity Blocks are reserved ahead of time, and the reservation fee is charged up front.
Source
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