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m8i-flex.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m8i-flex.2xlarge is a General purpose [Intel 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 0.0448 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
8671
(All-cores)
2133
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m8i-flex.2xlarge
Description
General purpose [Intel processors] Gen8 2xlarge
Family
m8i-flex
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-28T00:08:50.012317

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.1364 USD/h 0.4022 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.19835 USD/h 0.4022 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.19804 USD/h 0.4022 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.143233 USD/h 0.4232 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.127167 USD/h 0.4232 USD/h
(MY) / ap-southeast-5
0.140133 USD/h 0.4273 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.082667 USD/h 0.4483 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.192933 USD/h 0.4483 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.2611 USD/h 0.4483 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.199633 USD/h 0.465 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.178333 USD/h 0.4692 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.19945 USD/h 0.4692 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.212367 USD/h 0.4818 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.164 USD/h 0.4944 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.197667 USD/h 0.5028 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.219567 USD/h 0.5028 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.177667 USD/h 0.5195 USD/h
(NZ) / ap-southeast-6
0.148633 USD/h 0.5279 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.1259 USD/h 0.5321 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.296867 USD/h 0.641 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
3.9 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
6975P-C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
192 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
480 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
480 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, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pdcm, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, cpuid_fault, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, 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, wbnoinvd, ida, arat, avx512vbmi, umip, pku, ospke, waitpkg, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, tme, avx512_vpopcntdq, rdpid, bus_lock_detect, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, md_clear, serialize, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, flush_l1d, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
4.1
Scalability
102.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR5
Memory Speed
7200 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
      15 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 balanced general-purpose virtual machine featuring high-speed DDR5 memory and exceptional single-core processing performance for diverse enterprise workloads.

      General Purpose

      The Amazon Web Services m8i-flex.2xlarge is a general-purpose instance featuring an 8-vCPU Intel Xeon 6975P-C processor running at 3.9 GHz, paired with 32.0 GB of DDR5 memory. Built on the Nitro hypervisor, this x86_64 instance provides dedicated CPU allocation with a 480 MB L3 cache but lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks show exceptional single-core capabilities, with Geekbench single-core and text processing scores ranking in the top 10% tier. Additionally, single-threaded gzip compression and small-model LLM text generation perform strongly. While multi-core operations and memory bandwidth remain in the average range, the instance offers a balanced, cost-efficient profile for general-purpose workloads. It is highly suited for applications such as web serving, text processing, software compilation, and lightweight machine learning inference where high single-thread performance is required without the need for local NVMe storage.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1Score
      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) 1,869,318 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.986 50.00% 50.00% -0.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 9,839,133 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.853 20.00% 20.00% -3.13%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,356 2,411 0.977 10.00% 10.00% -0.23%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 117,803 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,277 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 1.39 10.00% 10.00% +3.35%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,180

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 8,474

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 15608
      Compression
      		 163968
      Encryption
      		 9050
      Extended Instructions
      		 11257
      Floating Point Maths
      		 29956
      Integer Maths
      		 41357
      Physics
      		 1944
      Prime Numbers
      		 89
      Single Threaded
      		 3277
      String Sorting
      		 21297

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2356
      Database Operations
      		 4790
      Memory Latency
      		 69
      Memory Read Cached
      		 29003
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11646
      Memory Write
      		 12139

      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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