m8gb.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m8gb.2xlarge is a General purpose [AWS Graviton 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 0.1882 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
13,649
(All-cores)
1,707
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m8gb.2xlarge
Description
General purpose [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 2xlarge
Family
m8gb
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-26T03:19:29.415956

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.210425 USD/h 0.582 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.2336 USD/h 0.582 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.288833 USD/h 0.6505 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
AWS
CPU Family
ARMv9
CPU Model
Neoverse-V2
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, jscvt, fcma, lrcpc, dcpop, sha3, asimddp, sha512, sve, asimdfhm, dit, uscat, ilrcpc, flagm, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svepmull, svebitperm, svesha3, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16, dgh, rng, bti
Ecpus
8
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
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
      16.666 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      33.333 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      12.5 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      25 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      An ARM64 general-purpose instance featuring dedicated Graviton cores and top-tier memory bandwidth for balanced, scale-out workloads.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m8gb.2xlarge is a general-purpose server instance built on the ARM64 architecture and managed by the Nitro hypervisor. It features an 8-core AWS Graviton Neoverse-V2 processor running at 2.8 GHz with dedicated CPU allocation and no hyperthreading. Equipped with 32.0 GB of RAM and a 17 Gbps baseline network speed, the instance lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Benchmarks indicate strong memory performance, with a top-tier PassMark memory score, and average compute capabilities across Geekbench and stress-ng tests. However, it exhibits weaker performance in CPU encryption and medium-sized LLM prompt processing. This instance is suitable for balanced workloads such as static web serving, Redis caching, and general-purpose application hosting.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.91Score
      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) 1,573,846 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.84 50.00% 50.00% -8.30%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,496,800 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.79 20.00% 20.00% -4.60%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,170 2,416 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 171,958 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1.5 10.00% 10.00% +4.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,945 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,897

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 10,132

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 7,701
      Compression
      		 53,133
      Encryption
      		 1,510
      Extended Instructions
      		 7,370
      Floating Point Maths
      		 48,497
      Integer Maths
      		 41,755
      Physics
      		 2,600
      Prime Numbers
      		 140
      Single Threaded
      		 1,945
      String Sorting
      		 37,134

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 3,170
      Database Operations
      		 12,144
      Memory Latency
      		 45
      Memory Read Cached
      		 20,574
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 20,240
      Memory Write
      		 21,299

      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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