AWS Amazon EC2

m8gd.16xlarge

Part of the M8GD General Purpose family — Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purpose88th GenerationgAWS GravitondDirect-Attached NVMe SSD16xlarge16 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$2.4538/ hr

~$1,791.24/mo · lowest in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), ap-south-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$1.22592/ hr

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

Per unit

$0.0383/ vCPU-hr

$0.0096/GB-hr

Compute

64vCPUs

64 cores • arm64

Memory

256GB

4.0 GB / vCPU

Network

30 Gbps

Baseline: 30 Gbps

Storage & EBS

2,500MB/s

Max: 80,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to m8gd.16xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs m8gd.16xlarge
m8gd.16xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	64 vCPU · 256 GiB	$3.69024/hr	—
c4a-standard-64-lssdsame 64 vCPU and 256 GiB; Arm on both	64 vCPU · 256 GiB	$3.736614/hr	1.3% more
n4a-standard-64same 64 vCPU and 256 GiB; Arm on both; local disk on m8gd.16xlarge only	64 vCPU · 256 GiB	$2.4640/hr	33% less
c4a-standard-64same 64 vCPU and 256 GiB; Arm on both; local disk on m8gd.16xlarge only	64 vCPU · 256 GiB	$2.8736/hr	22% 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

ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor

Architecturearm64 (ARM64 (Graviton))

vCPUs / Threads64 vCPUs

Physical Cores64

Clock Speed2.7 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score1,941,748

CoreMark / vCPU30,339.8 / core

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CoreMark per Dollar791,336 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0383

Cost per GB-hr$0.0096

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods737 pods

Max ENIs15

IPv4/v6 per ENI50

Total Addressable IPs750 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network Performance30 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth30 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth30 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationNVMe SSD (3800 GB)

Local NVMe Disk3,800 GB NVMe SSD

EBS Baseline Throughput2500 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput2500 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS80,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS80,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput20000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor128

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$2.4538/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$5.8784/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$4.2297/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

21regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 21 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia)	$3.9142
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	$4.6374
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Lowest	$2.4538
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$4.6048
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$4.6374
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$4.7680
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$4.6720
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$4.6720
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$4.1152
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$4.4416
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$4.1152
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$4.2784
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$4.3110
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$3.9194
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$4.1152
mx-central-1 Mexico (Central)	$3.8746
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$5.8784
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)	$3.6902
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)	$3.6902
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$4.3437
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)	$3.6902

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 m8gd.16xlarge 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.