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i8g.8xlarge by Amazon Web Services

i8g.8xlarge is a Storage optimized [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 8xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 7.5 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.287 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
7.5 TB Storage
Spare SCore
54609
(All-cores)
1707
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
i8g.8xlarge
Description
Storage optimized [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 8xlarge
Family
i8g
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-21T22:13:14.050640

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.661033 USD/h 2.7456 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.036875 USD/h 2.7456 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.73815 USD/h 2.7456 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.3717 USD/h 2.8704 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.824933 USD/h 3.0256 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.6678 USD/h 3.0256 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.1212 USD/h 3.0256 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.71 USD/h 3.1152 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.867767 USD/h 3.1856 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.8997 USD/h 3.2208 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.955933 USD/h 3.2208 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.678767 USD/h 3.2256 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.186167 USD/h 3.2736 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.631267 USD/h 3.2912 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.154367 USD/h 3.2912 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.719967 USD/h 4.384 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
AWS
CPU Model
Neoverse-V2
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
64 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, jscvt, fcma, lrcpc, dcpop, sha3, asimddp, sha512, sve, asimdfhm, dit, uscat, ilrcpc, flagm, ssbs, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svepmull, svebitperm, svesha3, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16, dgh, rng, bti
Ecpus
32
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
252 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    7500 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 3750 GB nvme ssd
    • 3750 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    25 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    25 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    10 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    10 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    An ARM64 storage-optimized platform featuring high-capacity local NVMe SSDs and top-tier memory bandwidth for data-intensive workloads.

    Storage & DatabaseMemory Optimized

    Amazon Web Services i8g.8xlarge is an ARM-based, storage-optimized server instance utilizing 32 dedicated physical cores of the AWS Neoverse-V2 processor at 2.8 GHz. It features 256.0 GB of RAM, a 7500 GB local NVMe SSD, and 25 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Benchmarks show top-tier memory performance, with large-block read bandwidth at 406.47 GB/sec and write bandwidth at 183.77 GB/sec, alongside top-tier Passmark database operation scores. While multi-core processing is strong, registering a Geekbench multi-core score of 21629.0, the instance exhibits weaker performance in large-scale LLM prompt processing. The high storage density and memory throughput make this instance highly efficient for database hosting, caching layers, and high-throughput data processing workloads.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.93Score
    Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
    Component Score Weight Impact
    Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
    Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 7,218,437 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 3.81 50.00% 50.00% +95.20%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 43,438,687 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 3.76 20.00% 20.00% +30.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,410 2,411 1.41 10.00% 10.00% +3.50%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 383,259 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 3.57 10.00% 10.00% +13.60%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,945 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.823 10.00% 10.00% -1.93%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,886

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 21,629

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		26405
    Compression
    		213095
    Encryption
    		6054
    Extended Instructions
    		29496
    Floating Point Maths
    		194053
    Integer Maths
    		167021
    Physics
    		9248
    Prime Numbers
    		430
    Single Threaded
    		1945
    String Sorting
    		147793

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		3410
    Database Operations
    		47278
    Memory Latency
    		46
    Memory Read Cached
    		21192
    Memory Read Uncached
    		20159
    Memory Write
    		21298

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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    i8g.16xlarge 64512 GiB0
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