m8a.large by Amazon Web Services

m8a.large is a General purpose [AMD processors] Gen8 large server offered by Amazon Web Services with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0159 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
7,538
(All-cores)
3,779
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m8a.large
Description
General purpose [AMD processors] Gen8 large
Family
m8a
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-12T09:13:55.983112

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.027267 USD/h 0.1217 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.044025 USD/h 0.1217 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.0448 USD/h 0.1217 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.0271 USD/h 0.128 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.0293 USD/h 0.1281 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.016867 USD/h 0.1357 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.059267 USD/h 0.1357 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.0524 USD/h 0.1458 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.102033 USD/h 0.1572 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
8 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
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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
      0.937 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      12.5 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      0.65 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 featuring dedicated AMD EPYC cores and high-speed DDR5 memory for single-threaded workloads.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m8a.large is a general-purpose instance featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs powered by an AMD EPYC 9R45 processor running at 4.5 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture and the Nitro hypervisor, it includes 8.0 GB of DDR5 memory at 6 GHz but lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks show top-tier single-core capabilities, with stress-ng and Geekbench single-core scores in the top 10%, alongside top-tier single-threaded compression speeds. However, multi-core performance, memory bandwidth, and software compilation speeds are average to weak. With a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps and no local storage, the instance offers a balanced resource profile for workloads that prioritize single-threaded execution. It is best suited for general-purpose applications, lightweight web serving, and small-scale database operations.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.54Score
      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) 743,963 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.388 50.00% 50.00% -37.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 5,053,681 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.433 20.00% 20.00% -15.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,495 2,418 0.618 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 138,631 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 1.28 10.00% 10.00% +2.50%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,808 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.61 10.00% 10.00% +4.88%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,822

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 5,086

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6942
      Compression
      		 66701
      Encryption
      		 3185
      Extended Instructions
      		 5860
      Floating Point Maths
      		 15307
      Integer Maths
      		 15254
      Physics
      		 994
      Prime Numbers
      		 60
      Single Threaded
      		 3808
      String Sorting
      		 9097

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1495
      Database Operations
      		 2869
      Memory Latency
      		 82
      Memory Read Cached
      		 33959
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 32633
      Memory Write
      		 33087

      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.12xlarge 48192 GiB0
      m8a.16xlarge 64256 GiB0

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