r6g.8xlarge by Amazon Web Services

r6g.8xlarge is a Memory optimized [AWS Graviton processors] Gen6 8xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1712 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
48,585
(All-cores)
1,520
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
r6g.8xlarge
Description
Memory optimized [AWS Graviton processors] Gen6 8xlarge
Family
r6g
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-13T03:56:07.274266

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.218467 USD/h 1.04 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.472733 USD/h 1.04 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.47644 USD/h 1.6128 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.391 USD/h 1.6128 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.614275 USD/h 1.6128 USD/h
(TH) / ap-southeast-7
0.5327 USD/h 1.6538 USD/h
(MY) / ap-southeast-5
0.527233 USD/h 1.6538 USD/h
(MX) / mx-central-1
0.816733 USD/h 1.6934 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.1712 USD/h 1.712 USD/h
Taipei (TW) / ap-east-2
0.496967 USD/h 1.751 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
0.301067 USD/h 1.7664 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.3964 USD/h 1.7664 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.54705 USD/h 1.792 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.206233 USD/h 1.8048 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.873067 USD/h 1.8048 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.539833 USD/h 1.888 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.363567 USD/h 1.8944 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.4081 USD/h 1.8944 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.416233 USD/h 1.895 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.339567 USD/h 1.9328 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.663433 USD/h 1.9328 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.1946 USD/h 1.9456 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.610467 USD/h 1.9456 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.759333 USD/h 1.9456 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.725333 USD/h 1.9456 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.9512 USD/h 1.9456 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.629675 USD/h 1.952 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
0.8127 USD/h 1.9853 USD/h
(NZ) / ap-southeast-6
0.7308 USD/h 2.0294 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.425833 USD/h 2.1402 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.335533 USD/h 2.144 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.325233 USD/h 2.1504 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.3551 USD/h 2.5728 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
CPU Speed
2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
AWS
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-N1
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, lrcpc, dcpop, asimddp, ssbs
Ecpus
32
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
254 GiB
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
      12 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      12 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      9.5 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      9.5 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      An ARM64 memory-optimized instance delivering high memory density and dedicated physical cores for parallelized, memory-intensive enterprise workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services r6g.8xlarge is a memory-optimized instance powered by the ARM64 AWS Graviton2 processor with Neoverse-N1 cores. It features 32 dedicated physical cores running at 2.5 GHz and 256.0 GB of system memory, yielding 8.0 GB of RAM per core. Operating on the AWS Nitro hypervisor, the instance provides 12 Gbps of baseline network bandwidth but lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks show average multi-core capabilities and strong memory read bandwidth of up to 1893.45 GB/sec for cached blocks, though single-core performance and text processing represent clear tradeoffs. This profile offers qualitative cost efficiency for memory-intensive, highly parallelized workloads. It is best suited for in-memory databases like Redis, database operations, static web serving, and multi-threaded data processing.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.5Score
      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) 3,751,325 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 1.96 50.00% 50.00% +40.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 21,606,256 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 1.85 20.00% 20.00% +13.10%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,824 2,418 0.754 10.00% 10.00% -2.78%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 180,038 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 1.66 10.00% 10.00% +5.20%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,110 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.47 10.00% 10.00% -7.27%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 950

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 11,647

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 17376
      Compression
      		 151766
      Encryption
      		 4376
      Extended Instructions
      		 19965
      Floating Point Maths
      		 95961
      Integer Maths
      		 126444
      Physics
      		 3154
      Prime Numbers
      		 181
      Single Threaded
      		 1110
      String Sorting
      		 90686

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1824
      Database Operations
      		 20400
      Memory Latency
      		 72
      Memory Read Cached
      		 9485
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9199
      Memory Write
      		 12550

      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

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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      r6g.large 216 GiB0
      r6g.xlarge 432 GiB0
      r6g.2xlarge 864 GiB0
      r6g.4xlarge 16128 GiB0
      r6g.12xlarge 48384 GiB0
      r6g.16xlarge 64512 GiB0

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