x8g.large by Amazon Web Services

x8g.large is a Memory intensive [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 large server offered by Amazon Web Services with 2 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0245 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,403
(All-cores)
1,707
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
x8g.large
Description
Memory intensive [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 large
Family
x8g
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-14T18:40:54.942357

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.029467 USD/h 0.1954 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.0702 USD/h 0.1954 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.0724 USD/h 0.1954 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.0433 USD/h 0.2225 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.0741 USD/h 0.234 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.0676 USD/h 0.2345 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.0799 USD/h 0.2731 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
AWS
CPU Model
Neoverse-V2
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 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
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
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 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
      0.937 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      12.5 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      0.63 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 offering high memory density per core, designed specifically for memory-bound and low-concurrency workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services x8g.large is an ARM64 memory-optimized instance featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs on an AWS Neoverse-V2 processor running at 2.8 GHz, paired with 32.0 GB of RAM. This configuration delivers a high memory-to-core ratio of 16.0 GB per core. The instance lacks local storage and GPU accelerators, relying on a 1 Gbps baseline network connection. Benchmarks show average single-core CPU and read memory bandwidth performance, contrasted by weak multi-core scaling and weak memory write speeds. Single-threaded bzip3 decompression is strong, while database operations and text processing perform at average levels. Given the high memory density and limited CPU parallelization, the x8g.large is best suited for memory-intensive, low-concurrency workloads such as caching, small database nodes, and single-threaded data processing.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.363Score
      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) 496,693 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.259 50.00% 50.00% -49.10%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,918,848 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.25 20.00% 20.00% -24.20%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,705 2,418 1.12 10.00% 10.00% +1.14%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 64,093 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.593 10.00% 10.00% -5.09%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,944 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.822 10.00% 10.00% -1.94%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,809

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,226

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1980
      Compression
      		 13066
      Encryption
      		 370
      Extended Instructions
      		 1833
      Floating Point Maths
      		 12059
      Integer Maths
      		 10391
      Physics
      		 684
      Prime Numbers
      		 35
      Single Threaded
      		 1944
      String Sorting
      		 9203

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2705
      Database Operations
      		 2990
      Memory Latency
      		 50
      Memory Read Cached
      		 21184
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 18186
      Memory Write
      		 21285

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

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