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m8a.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m8a.2xlarge is a General purpose [AMD processors] Gen8 2xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0956 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
30096
(All-cores)
3772
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m8a.2xlarge
Description
General purpose [AMD processors] Gen8 2xlarge
Family
m8a
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-07T04:33:36.794730

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.148033 USD/h 0.4869 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.194775 USD/h 0.4869 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.18486 USD/h 0.4869 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.118267 USD/h 0.5122 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.16925 USD/h 0.5122 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.0991 USD/h 0.5426 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.2881 USD/h 0.5426 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.228933 USD/h 0.5832 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.2416 USD/h 0.6289 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
4.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
9R45
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
384 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, topoext, perfctr_core, ssbd, perfmon_v2, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, vmmcall, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, clzero, xsaveerptr, rdpru, wbnoinvd, arat, avx512vbmi, pku, ospke, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, rdpid, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, avx512_vp2intersect, flush_l1d
Ecpus
8
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR5
Memory Speed
6400 Mhz
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      3.75 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      15 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      2.5 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A balanced general-purpose instance combining high-frequency AMD EPYC single-core performance with fast DDR5 memory for efficient compute workloads.

      General PurposeCompute Optimized

      Amazon Web Services m8a.2xlarge is a general-purpose instance featuring an 8-core AMD EPYC 9R45 processor running at 4.5 GHz on the Nitro hypervisor. It is equipped with 32.0 GB of DDR5 memory at 6 GHz, offering 4.0 GB of RAM per core, but lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. The instance delivers top-tier single-core performance, as evidenced by high stress-ng and Geekbench single-core scores, alongside top-tier single-threaded compression and decompression speeds. Conversely, multi-core benchmarks, memory bandwidth, and database operations align with average tier performance. With a baseline network bandwidth of 4 Gbps, the m8a.2xlarge represents a balanced resource profile. It is best suited for workloads prioritizing single-threaded CPU speed, such as web serving, text processing, software compilation, and small-scale language model inference.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.38Score
      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) 2,961,485 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 1.55 50.00% 50.00% +24.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 19,516,735 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 1.68 20.00% 20.00% +10.90%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,523 2,416 1.04 10.00% 10.00% +0.39%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 63,967 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.593 10.00% 10.00% -5.09%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,831 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 1.62 10.00% 10.00% +4.94%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,817

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 14,151

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 25642
      Compression
      		 263757
      Encryption
      		 12687
      Extended Instructions
      		 24305
      Floating Point Maths
      		 61024
      Integer Maths
      		 60942
      Physics
      		 3030
      Prime Numbers
      		 217
      Single Threaded
      		 3831
      String Sorting
      		 37064

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2523
      Database Operations
      		 10526
      Memory Latency
      		 88
      Memory Read Cached
      		 33916
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 32410
      Memory Write
      		 32972

      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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      m8a.8xlarge 32128 GiB0
      m8a.12xlarge 48192 GiB0
      m8a.16xlarge 64256 GiB0

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