x8g.medium by Amazon Web Services

x8g.medium is a Memory intensive [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 medium server offered by Amazon Web Services with 1 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0098 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,694
(All-cores)
1,694
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
x8g.medium
Description
Memory intensive [AWS Graviton processors] Gen8 medium
Family
x8g
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-16T05:55:52.467099

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.0098 USD/h 0.0977 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.0249 USD/h 0.0977 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.026925 USD/h 0.0977 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.014 USD/h 0.1112 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.0371 USD/h 0.117 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.0209 USD/h 0.1172 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.0304 USD/h 0.1366 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 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
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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
      0.52 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 memory-optimized ARM64 instance providing high memory density for lightweight database caching and single-threaded data processing workloads.

      Memory Optimized

      Amazon Web Services x8g.medium is a memory-optimized instance powered by a single-core ARM64 AWS Graviton Neoverse-V2 processor running at 2.8 GHz. Built on the Nitro hypervisor, it features 16.0 GB of RAM, providing a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 16:1. The instance lacks local storage and GPU accelerators, and has a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps. Benchmark data shows average single-core performance, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1740.0 and strong single-threaded bzip3 decompression at 14.31 GB/sec, though multi-core and memory write bandwidth metrics are low due to the single vCPU limitation. This hardware profile is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-heavy, single-threaded workloads. It is best suited for lightweight database caching, memory-bound utility tasks, and single-threaded data processing.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.199Score
      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) 237,033 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.124 50.00% 50.00% -64.80%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,441,690 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.123 20.00% 20.00% -34.20%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,137 2,418 0.884 10.00% 10.00% -1.23%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 35,635 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.33 10.00% 10.00% -10.50%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,839 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.778 10.00% 10.00% -2.48%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,740

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,742

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 982
      Compression
      		 6341
      Encryption
      		 183
      Extended Instructions
      		 914
      Floating Point Maths
      		 6007
      Integer Maths
      		 5174
      Physics
      		 338
      Prime Numbers
      		 17
      Single Threaded
      		 1839
      String Sorting
      		 4547

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2137
      Database Operations
      		 1481
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 20325
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 17947
      Memory Write
      		 20987

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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      x8g.12xlarge 48768 GiB0
      x8g.16xlarge 641024 GiB0

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