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x8g.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services

x8g.2xlarge is a Memory intensive [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 2xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 8 vCPUs, 128 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1394 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
128 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
13646
(All-cores)
1707
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
x8g.2xlarge
Description
Memory intensive [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 2xlarge
Family
x8g
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-06-26T06:10:51.665646

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.184867 USD/h 0.7816 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.30825 USD/h 0.7816 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.356467 USD/h 0.7816 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.1586 USD/h 0.8898 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.3176 USD/h 0.936 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.2999 USD/h 0.9379 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.354 USD/h 1.0924 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 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, ssbs, 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
128 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
126 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
      3.75 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      15 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      2.5 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      An arm64 memory-optimized virtual server featuring high memory density and top-tier memory bandwidth for database and caching workloads.

      Memory Optimized

      Amazon Web Services x8g.2xlarge is an arm64 memory-optimized server instance powered by an 8-core AWS Graviton Neoverse-V2 processor running at 2.8 GHz. It features 128.0 GB of RAM, providing a high resource density of 16.0 GB per core, while lacking local storage and GPU accelerators. Built on the Nitro hypervisor, it delivers a baseline network bandwidth of 4 Gbps. Performance benchmarks show top-tier memory scores and strong single-threaded compression and text processing capabilities. However, cryptographic performance and LLM inference speeds represent notable performance tradeoffs. This instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-heavy workloads, making it highly suitable for database operations, caching systems like Redis, and memory-intensive software compilation.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,876

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 9,945

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		7705
      Compression
      		53182
      Encryption
      		1512
      Extended Instructions
      		7359
      Floating Point Maths
      		48489
      Integer Maths
      		41737
      Physics
      		2568
      Prime Numbers
      		141
      Single Threaded
      		1945
      String Sorting
      		37100

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		3139
      Database Operations
      		12016
      Memory Latency
      		50
      Memory Read Cached
      		21208
      Memory Read Uncached
      		18245
      Memory Write
      		21294

      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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      x8g.large 232 GiB0
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      x8g.4xlarge 16256 GiB0
      x8g.8xlarge 32512 GiB0
      x8g.12xlarge 48768 GiB0
      x8g.16xlarge 641024 GiB0

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