m5.8xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m5.8xlarge is a General purpose Gen5 8xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 32 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1616 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
26,974
(All-cores)
1,282
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m5.8xlarge
Description
General purpose Gen5 8xlarge
Family
m5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-26T00:02:14.359814

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.279267 USD/h 1.536 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.46442 USD/h 1.536 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.556325 USD/h 1.536 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.1616 USD/h 1.616 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.491933 USD/h 1.616 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.1678 USD/h 1.632 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
0.7302 USD/h 1.712 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.1927 USD/h 1.712 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.4201 USD/h 1.712 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.798767 USD/h 1.712 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.5344 USD/h 1.776 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.33 USD/h 1.792 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.5851 USD/h 1.792 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.5907 USD/h 1.792 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.5865 USD/h 1.798 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.7022 USD/h 1.84 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
0.7709 USD/h 1.883 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.387375 USD/h 1.888 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.192 USD/h 1.92 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.326967 USD/h 1.92 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.7092 USD/h 1.92 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.806233 USD/h 1.92 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.608867 USD/h 1.984 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.692733 USD/h 1.984 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.56 USD/h 2.024 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.391333 USD/h 2.032 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
1.2275 USD/h 2.112 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.3344 USD/h 2.448 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
3.1 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8259CL
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, ida, arat, pku, ospke
Ecpus
21
Scalability
65.62

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
128 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2933 Mhz
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      10 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      6.8 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      6.8 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A balanced multi-core virtual server featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and DDR4 memory for general-purpose enterprise workloads.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m5.8xlarge is a general-purpose virtual server powered by the Nitro hypervisor and an Intel Xeon 8259CL processor. It features 32 dedicated vCPUs operating at 3.1 GHz, paired with 128.0 GB of DDR4 memory. The server does not include local storage or GPU accelerators, and it provides a baseline network bandwidth of 10 Gbps. Performance benchmarks show a distinct tradeoff: single-core performance is weak, ranking in the bottom 25% for Geekbench and stress-ng single-core tests, whereas multi-core performance, memory bandwidth, and database operations consistently achieve average tier results. This hardware profile is qualitatively cost-efficient for balanced, multi-threaded workloads rather than single-threaded or heavy AI inference tasks. It is best suited for general-purpose applications, static web serving, software compilation, and medium-scale database operations.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.2Score
      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) 2,692,365 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.4 50.00% 50.00% +18.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 16,019,246 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.3 20.00% 20.00% +5.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,518 2,416 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 114,752 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,813 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,050

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 9,637

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 25,371
      Compression
      		 390,583
      Encryption
      		 12,448
      Extended Instructions
      		 24,665
      Floating Point Maths
      		 48,660
      Integer Maths
      		 90,842
      Physics
      		 2,275
      Prime Numbers
      		 129
      Single Threaded
      		 1,813
      String Sorting
      		 47,121

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,518
      Database Operations
      		 10,434
      Memory Latency
      		 55
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22,148
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,996
      Memory Write
      		 9,858

      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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