r8gd.medium by Amazon Web Services

r8gd.medium is a Memory optimized [AWS Graviton processors] [Instance store volumes] Gen8 medium server offered by Amazon Web Services with 1 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 59 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0073 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
59 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1,695
(All-cores)
1,695
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
r8gd.medium
API Reference Object
-
Description
Memory optimized [AWS Graviton processors] [Instance store volumes] Gen8 medium
Family
r8gd
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-17T07:16:38.100187

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.007567 USD/h 0.0475 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.008433 USD/h 0.0735 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.013 USD/h 0.0735 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.02728 USD/h 0.0735 USD/h
(MY) / ap-southeast-5
0.0222 USD/h 0.0755 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.00785 USD/h 0.0776 USD/h
Taipei (TW) / ap-east-2
0.024933 USD/h 0.0799 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.020533 USD/h 0.0806 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
0.0199 USD/h 0.0806 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.016467 USD/h 0.0817 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.048167 USD/h 0.0817 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.0188 USD/h 0.0827 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.0234 USD/h 0.0846 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.02515 USD/h 0.0857 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.026225 USD/h 0.0862 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.0212 USD/h 0.0863 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.0088 USD/h 0.0883 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.0274 USD/h 0.0883 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.0089 USD/h 0.0888 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.019533 USD/h 0.0888 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.0272 USD/h 0.0888 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.0267 USD/h 0.0888 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.052233 USD/h 0.0888 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.0185 USD/h 0.0893 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.02155 USD/h 0.097 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.0522 USD/h 0.0971 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.016833 USD/h 0.1163 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
1
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
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
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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, ssbs, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svepmull, svebitperm, svesha3, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16, dgh, rng, bti
Ecpus
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    59 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 59 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    0.52 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    12.5 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    0.315 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    10 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A single-core ARMv9 instance combining dedicated memory-optimized architecture with fast local NVMe SSD storage for low-concurrency workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services r8gd.medium is a memory-optimized instance featuring a single dedicated AWS Graviton ARMv9 Neoverse-V2 core running at 2.8 GHz. It is configured with 8.0 GB of RAM, 59 GB of local NVMe SSD storage, and a baseline network speed of 1 Gbps, managed via the Nitro hypervisor. Benchmarks show average single-core CPU performance, highlighted by a Geekbench single-core score of 1741.0 and a strong single-threaded bzip3 decompression rate of 14.0 GB/sec. However, multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics are limited due to the single-vCPU constraint. This instance provides a qualitative balance of dedicated ARMv9 compute and local SSD storage for memory-sensitive, low-concurrency workloads. It is best suited for lightweight database operations, caching, and single-threaded data processing tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.19Score
    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) 228,725 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.12 50.00% 50.00% -65.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,397,266 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.12 20.00% 20.00% -35.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,275 2,417 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 35,757 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.33 10.00% 10.00% -10.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,844 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,741

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 1,736

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 987
    Compression
    		 6391
    Encryption
    		 184
    Extended Instructions
    		 916
    Floating Point Maths
    		 6022
    Integer Maths
    		 5183
    Physics
    		 339
    Prime Numbers
    		 17
    Single Threaded
    		 1844
    String Sorting
    		 4530

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1275
    Database Operations
    		 1502
    Memory Latency
    		 48
    Memory Read Cached
    		 20293
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 19339
    Memory Write
    		 21028

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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