AWS Amazon EC2

m8a.xlarge

Part of the M8A General Purpose family — Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purpose88th GenerationaAMD EPYCxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.2434/ hr

~$177.71/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.12346/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −49% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0609/ vCPU-hr

$0.0152/GB-hr

Compute

4vCPUs

4 cores • x86_64

Memory

16GB

4.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 15 Gbps

Baseline: 1.875 Gbps

Storage & EBS

1,250MB/s

Max: 40,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to m8a.xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs m8a.xlarge
m8a.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.24344/hr	—
t2d-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; AMD on both	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.19032/hr	22% less
n4d-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; AMD on both; 4 physical cores vs 2	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.1694/hr	30% less
c3d-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; AMD on both; 4 physical cores vs 2	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.181596/hr	25% less

Matched on vCPU and memory, then CPU vendor, then rate; a larger size is offered only when nothing is the same size. On-demand Linux only: Spot and commitments work differently on the two clouds, so they aren't compared here.

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 Processor

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores4

Clock SpeedUp to 4.5 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score174,419

CoreMark / vCPU43,604.7 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding71 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar716,476 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0609

Cost per GB-hr$0.0152

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods78 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI20

Total Addressable IPs80 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 15 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth1.875 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth12.5 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput156.25 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput1250 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS6,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS40,000

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 10000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor8

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.2434/ hr

US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)

Highest Price Region

$0.3144/ hr

Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.2698/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

10regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 10 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$0.2561
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.2561
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Highest	$0.3144
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.3068
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.2916
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.2713
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.2713
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.2434
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.2434
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.2434

Windows — Available in all 10 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$0.4401
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.4401
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Highest	$0.4984
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.4908
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.4756
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.4553
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.4553
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.4274
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.4274
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.4274

Savings Plans: what to know

A Savings Plan commits you to a dollar amount per hour of spend for one or three years, not to an instance: usage up to that amount is billed at the plan's rates and the rest at on-demand, and unused commitment is still billed.
A Compute Savings Plan follows your usage across instance families, sizes, regions and operating systems; an EC2 Instance Savings Plan is locked to one family in one region in exchange for a lower rate (what that flexibility costs).
In US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for m8a.xlarge on Linux is 51% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 51% of the hours for the commitment to cost less than on-demand.
On Windows a plan discounts only the compute part of the rate: the Windows license part costs the same as on demand, so the percentage off is smaller than on Linux.
Rates are AWS's effective hourly rate for each payment option; All Upfront pays the whole term's commitment at purchase, which is why its hourly rate is lower; Partial Upfront (at least half up front) isn't shown on this page. The Savings Plans calculator has all three and sizes a commitment for this instance or a mix of them. How AWS applies a plan each hour: how Compute Savings Plans decide what they cover. Sizing one for elastic workloads: managing Compute Savings Plans.