AWS Amazon EC2

m8i.xlarge

Part of the M8I General Purpose family — Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purpose88th GenerationiIntel Xeon ScalablexlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.2117/ hr

~$154.53/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.10735/ hr

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

Per unit

$0.0529/ vCPU-hr

$0.0132/GB-hr

Compute

4vCPUs

2 cores • x86_64

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

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to m8i.xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs m8i.xlarge
m8i.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.21168/hr	—
n4-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.1814/hr	14% less
c3-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.201608/hr	4.8% less
n2-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.218756/hr	3.3% 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

ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores2

Clock Speed3.9 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score88,968

CoreMark / vCPU22,242 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding40 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar420,295 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0529

Cost per GB-hr$0.0132

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods118 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI30

Total Addressable IPs120 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 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

$0.2117/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.3374/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$0.2493/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

23regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 23 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.2800
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$0.2227
ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia)	$0.2249
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.2227
ap-southeast-6 Asia Pacific (New Zealand)	$0.2778
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.2602
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.2646
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.2646
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.2734
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.2668
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.2668
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.2359
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary)	$0.2359
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.2536
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.2359
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.2448
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.2470
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.2359
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.3374
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.2117
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.2117
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.2470
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.2117

Windows — Available in all 23 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.4640
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$0.4067
ap-southeast-5 Asia Pacific (Malaysia)	$0.4089
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.4067
ap-southeast-6 Asia Pacific (New Zealand)	$0.4618
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.4442
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.4486
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.4486
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.4574
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.4508
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.4508
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.4199
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary)	$0.4199
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.4376
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.4199
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.4288
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.4310
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.4199
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.5214
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.3957
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.3957
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.4310
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.3957

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 m8i.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.