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x8g.8xlarge by Amazon Web Services

x8g.8xlarge is a Memory intensive [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 8xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 32 vCPUs, 512 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.4183 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
512 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
54602
(All-cores)
1707
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
x8g.8xlarge
Description
Memory intensive [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 8xlarge
Family
x8g
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-23T04:13:00.694853

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.7514 USD/h 3.1264 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.986775 USD/h 3.1264 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.473233 USD/h 3.1264 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.42035 USD/h 3.5594 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.018 USD/h 3.744 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.8218 USD/h 3.7517 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.3791 USD/h 4.3696 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
AWS
CPU Model
Neoverse-V2
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
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
64 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
32
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
512 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
504 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
      15 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      15 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      10 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 server featuring high memory bandwidth and dedicated physical cores for memory-intensive database and caching workloads.

      Memory OptimizedStorage & Database

      Amazon Web Services x8g.8xlarge is an arm64 memory-optimized server utilizing the Nitro hypervisor and AWS Graviton Neoverse-V2 processors. It features 32 dedicated physical cores running at 2.8 GHz and 512.0 GB of RAM, yielding 16.0 GB of memory per core. The hardware lacks local storage and GPU accelerators but delivers a baseline network bandwidth of 15 Gbps. Benchmark results highlight top-tier memory bandwidth, with uncached large-block reads at 390.87 GB/sec, and top-tier database operations. While Geekbench multi-core performance is top-tier, single-core CPU metrics remain average, and LLM text generation for small models is weak. This profile makes the instance suitable for memory-intensive applications, database operations, and Redis caching, where high memory density and bandwidth are prioritized over raw single-core compute or local storage.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      2.94Score
      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) 7,412,666 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 3.91 50.00% 50.00% +97.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 42,822,587 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 3.71 20.00% 20.00% +30.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,268 2,411 1.36 10.00% 10.00% +3.12%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 372,439 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 3.47 10.00% 10.00% +13.20%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,945 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.823 10.00% 10.00% -1.93%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,866

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 21,432

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 26411
      Compression
      		 213010
      Encryption
      		 6065
      Extended Instructions
      		 29488
      Floating Point Maths
      		 194024
      Integer Maths
      		 166989
      Physics
      		 9127
      Prime Numbers
      		 425
      Single Threaded
      		 1945
      String Sorting
      		 147772

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 3268
      Database Operations
      		 46856
      Memory Latency
      		 49
      Memory Read Cached
      		 21194
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 18166
      Memory Write
      		 21209

      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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