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m8a.xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m8a.xlarge is a General purpose [AMD processors] Gen8 xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0436 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
15048
(All-cores)
3771
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m8a.xlarge
Description
General purpose [AMD processors] Gen8 xlarge
Family
m8a
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-12T09:13:52.174664

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.0712 USD/h 0.2434 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.0947 USD/h 0.2434 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.10928 USD/h 0.2434 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.0498 USD/h 0.2561 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.08895 USD/h 0.2561 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.0561 USD/h 0.2713 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.123567 USD/h 0.2713 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.123467 USD/h 0.2916 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.1266 USD/h 0.3144 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
16 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
4
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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
      1.875 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      12.5 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      1.25 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A general-purpose instance featuring dedicated AMD EPYC processors and DDR5 memory, delivering top-tier single-core performance for balanced workloads.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m8a.xlarge is a general-purpose instance featuring 4 dedicated AMD EPYC vCPUs running at 4.5 GHz and 16.0 GB of DDR5 memory. Operating on the Nitro hypervisor, it lacks local storage and dedicated GPUs, offering a baseline network bandwidth of 2 Gbps. Benchmarks show top-tier single-core CPU performance, single-threaded compression, and small-model LLM text generation, while multi-core operations, memory bandwidth, and database performance remain average. The 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio offers balanced resource density, though the lack of local storage and modest network baseline are notable tradeoffs. This instance is suited for general-purpose workloads, software compilation, text processing, and web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.882Score
      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) 1,489,674 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.78 50.00% 50.00% -11.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,828,081 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.847 20.00% 20.00% -3.27%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,361 2,416 0.977 10.00% 10.00% -0.23%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 94,229 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.873 10.00% 10.00% -1.35%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,825 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 1.62 10.00% 10.00% +4.94%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,827

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 8,922

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 13568
      Compression
      		 132402
      Encryption
      		 6346
      Extended Instructions
      		 12026
      Floating Point Maths
      		 30540
      Integer Maths
      		 30440
      Physics
      		 1850
      Prime Numbers
      		 120
      Single Threaded
      		 3825
      String Sorting
      		 18717

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2361
      Database Operations
      		 5485
      Memory Latency
      		 82
      Memory Read Cached
      		 33904
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 32173
      Memory Write
      		 32887

      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

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      m8a.large 28 GiB0
      m8a.2xlarge 832 GiB0
      m8a.4xlarge 1664 GiB0
      m8a.8xlarge 32128 GiB0
      m8a.12xlarge 48192 GiB0
      m8a.16xlarge 64256 GiB0

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