m8i.xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m8i.xlarge is a General purpose [Intel 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 0.0223 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
4,320
(All-cores)
2,125
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m8i.xlarge
Description
General purpose [Intel processors] Gen8 xlarge
Family
m8i
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-06T01:14:46.284029

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.063167 USD/h 0.2117 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.084275 USD/h 0.2117 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.09616 USD/h 0.2117 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.0244 USD/h 0.2227 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.072467 USD/h 0.2227 USD/h
(MY) / ap-southeast-5
0.065933 USD/h 0.2249 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.048867 USD/h 0.2359 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
0.0658 USD/h 0.2359 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.098633 USD/h 0.2359 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.120167 USD/h 0.2359 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.0882 USD/h 0.2448 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.098467 USD/h 0.247 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.10405 USD/h 0.247 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.115433 USD/h 0.2536 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.053025 USD/h 0.2602 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.111067 USD/h 0.2646 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.1173 USD/h 0.2646 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.104933 USD/h 0.2734 USD/h
(NZ) / ap-southeast-6
0.076467 USD/h 0.2778 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.0896 USD/h 0.28 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.075467 USD/h 0.3374 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 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, arch_perfmon, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, 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
2
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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
      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 x86 server featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing, DDR5 memory, and strong single-threaded performance for balanced workloads.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m8i.xlarge is a general-purpose server powered by the Nitro hypervisor and an Intel Xeon 6975P-C x86_64 processor. It features 4 dedicated vCPUs across 2 physical cores, 16.0 GB of DDR5 memory, and a baseline network bandwidth of 2 Gbps, with no local storage or GPU. Single-core benchmarks, such as Geekbench single-core and single-threaded gzip compression, place in the top 25%, indicating strong single-thread execution. Conversely, multi-core and database benchmarks fall into the bottom 25%, highlighting a performance tradeoff for parallel tasks. Qualitatively, the instance provides a balanced resource density for general-purpose workloads. It is best suited for single-threaded applications, static web serving, and lightweight text processing rather than highly parallelized or database-heavy operations.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      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) 882,858 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.46 50.00% 50.00% -32.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,945,769 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.41 20.00% 20.00% -16.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,129 2,417 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 59,326 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 3,250 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.4 10.00% 10.00% +3.40%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,163

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,960

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 8005
      Compression
      		 80393
      Encryption
      		 4564
      Extended Instructions
      		 5440
      Floating Point Maths
      		 14905
      Integer Maths
      		 20545
      Physics
      		 995
      Prime Numbers
      		 45
      Single Threaded
      		 3250
      String Sorting
      		 10689

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2129
      Database Operations
      		 2411
      Memory Latency
      		 72
      Memory Read Cached
      		 29010
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 17052
      Memory Write
      		 11230

      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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