m8a.medium by Amazon Web Services

m8a.medium is a General purpose [AMD processors] Gen8 medium server offered by Amazon Web Services with 1 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0064 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,763
(All-cores)
3,763
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m8a.medium
API Reference Object
-
Description
General purpose [AMD processors] Gen8 medium
Family
m8a
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-17T07:16:38.117835

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.014367 USD/h 0.0609 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.0168 USD/h 0.0609 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.019 USD/h 0.0609 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.0064 USD/h 0.064 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.010733 USD/h 0.064 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.015733 USD/h 0.0678 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.027867 USD/h 0.0678 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.0318 USD/h 0.0729 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.042 USD/h 0.0786 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
1
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
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
48 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
4 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, 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, 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
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR5
Memory Speed
6400 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
      0.52 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      12.5 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      0.325 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A single-core general-purpose instance featuring high-frequency DDR5 memory and strong single-threaded performance for lightweight workloads.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m8a.medium is a general-purpose instance featuring a single dedicated AMD EPYC 9R45 core running at 4.5 GHz on the x86_64 architecture. It is equipped with 4.0 GB of DDR5 memory operating at 6 GHz, delivering a balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio. Operating on the Nitro hypervisor, the instance provides a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps and does not include local storage. Benchmarks highlight top-tier single-core performance, particularly in single-threaded compression and text processing, though multi-core and database operations are limited by the single-vCPU constraint. This instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for workloads requiring high single-threaded clock speeds without the overhead of multi-core scaling. It is best suited for lightweight web serving, text processing, and single-threaded utility tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.33Score
      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) 381,608 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.2 50.00% 50.00% -55.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,482,212 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.21 20.00% 20.00% -27.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,313 2,417 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 127,439 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,719 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,795

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,784

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3491
      Compression
      		 32851
      Encryption
      		 1585
      Extended Instructions
      		 2751
      Floating Point Maths
      		 7652
      Integer Maths
      		 7620
      Physics
      		 495
      Prime Numbers
      		 30
      Single Threaded
      		 3719
      String Sorting
      		 4707

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1313
      Database Operations
      		 1529
      Memory Latency
      		 83
      Memory Read Cached
      		 33820
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 32417
      Memory Write
      		 32758

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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