AWS Amazon EC2

m8g.xlarge

Part of the M8G General Purpose family — Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purpose88th GenerationgAWS GravitonxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.1283/ hr

~$93.67/mo · lowest in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), ap-south-2

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.06448/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −50% vs on-demand rate (ap-south-1)

Per unit

$0.0321/ vCPU-hr

$0.0080/GB-hr

Compute

4vCPUs

4 cores • arm64

Memory

16GB

4.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 12.5 Gbps

Baseline: 1.875 Gbps

Storage & EBS

1,250MB/s

Max: 40,000 IOPS

Alternatives to m8g.xlarge

Option	Price vs m8g.xlarge	Why look at it
c8g.xlarge Compare →	-11%-$0.02/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Different instance family, 8 GiB RAM instead of 16, same vCPU
r8g.xlarge Compare →	+31%+$0.0561/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Different instance family, 32 GiB RAM instead of 16, same vCPU

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to m8g.xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs m8g.xlarge
m8g.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.17952/hr	—
n4a-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Arm on both	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.1540/hr	14% less
c4a-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Arm on both	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.1796/hr	Same rate
c4a-standard-4-lssdsame 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Arm on both; local disk on c4a-standard-4-lssd only	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.241244/hr	34% more

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

ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor

Architecturearm64 (ARM64 (Graviton))

vCPUs / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores4

Clock Speed2.7 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score124,679

CoreMark / vCPU31,169.6 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding45 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar971,626 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0321

Cost per GB-hr$0.0080

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods58 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI15

Total Addressable IPs60 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 12.5 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 10 Gbps

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

$0.1283/ hr

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)

Highest Price Region

$0.2861/ hr

South America (Sao Paulo) (sa-east-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.2100/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

35regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 35 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.2375
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$0.2468
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Lowest	$0.1283
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$0.2244
ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia)	$0.1908
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	$0.2244
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Lowest	$0.1283
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.2319
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.2207
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.2244
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.2244
ap-east-2 Asia Pacific (Taipei)	$0.2087
ap-southeast-7 Asia Pacific (Thailand)	$0.1908
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.2319
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.2262
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.2262
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.2001
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary)	$0.2001
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.2151
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.2001
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.2076
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$0.2094
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.2094
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$0.1908
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.2000
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$0.2366
mx-central-1 Mexico (Central)	$0.1885
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$0.2468
me-central-1 Middle East (UAE)	$0.2201
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.2861
us-east-1-dfw-1 US East (Dallas)	$0.2244
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)	$0.1795
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)	$0.1795
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.2094
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)	$0.1795

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 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for m8g.xlarge on Linux is 50% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 50% of the hours for the commitment to cost less than on-demand.
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.