vt1.24xlargeAWS Pricing, Specs & Benchmarks

The vt1 family is a generation-1 video transcoding line running on Intel Xeon (x86_64). vt1.24xlarge provides 96 vCPUs and 192GB of RAM (a 1:2 vCPU-to-memory ratio), priced at $5.2000/hr On-Demand — about $3744.00 per month at 24×7 utilization.

Video transcoding instances are sized for live video processing pipelines using the Xilinx U30 media accelerators. If your workload doesn't match that profile — for example, if you're running a memory-bound app on a compute-optimized instance, or a CPU-pegged batch job on a burstable t-series — you'll likely pay for capacity you can't use or run into bottlenecks you didn't anticipate. The pages for sibling families (linked further down) cover those alternatives in detail.

In the AWS instance-naming convention, the digit after the series letter is the generation — higher is newer. This appears to be one of AWS's newer generations in the series, so for most fresh workloads it's a reasonable default within its category.

Pricing varies by region (sometimes meaningfully — the gap between the cheapest and most expensive AWS region for the same SKU is often 15–30%). The regional pricing table further down shows where vt1.24xlarge is cheapest today, both On-Demand and Spot. Spot pricing for vt1.24xlarge is currently $2.9481/hr — roughly 43% off On-Demand — which makes the instance viable for fault-tolerant batch jobs, CI fleets, and any workload that can tolerate interruption with short notice.