M8A General Purpose

Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purposem = General PurposeBalanced compute, memory, and networking resources for a wide variety of standard enterprise workloads and microservices.88th Generation8 = 8th GenerationAWS 8th generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.aAMD EPYCa = AMD EPYCAMD EPYC 9R45 Processor (x86_64). Powered by AMD EPYC x86_64 processors, delivering high core counts and cost-effective compute performance.

Common use cases

  • Web servers
  • Application servers
  • Small-to-medium databases
  • Development environments

Instance types (10)

With a 3-year Compute Savings Plan (No Upfront), m8a sizes on Linux in US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) cost 49% less than the on-demand rate. Each size's page has the rates in every region. How Savings Plans are applied.

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
m8a.medium14 GBx86_64$0.0609
m8a.large28 GBx86_64$0.1217
m8a.xlarge416 GBx86_64$0.2434
m8a.2xlarge832 GBx86_64$0.4869
m8a.4xlarge1664 GBx86_64$0.9738
m8a.8xlarge32128 GBx86_64$1.9475
m8a.12xlarge48192 GBx86_64$2.9213
m8a.16xlarge64256 GBx86_64$3.8950
m8a.24xlarge96384 GBx86_64$5.8426
m8a.48xlarge192768 GBx86_64$11.6851