m5n.8xlarge

m5n.8xlarge is an AWS EC2 instance with 32 vCPUs, 128 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $1.904 per hour on demand ($1,389.92 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $1.20 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $0.8602 per hour. It is sold in 9 regions.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr reserved	3-yr reserved	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$1.904	$0.8602	$1.20	$0.734	$1.389	$0.843
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$1.904	$0.6366	$1.20	$0.734	$1.389	$0.843
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$1.904	$0.6986	$1.20	$0.734	$1.389	$0.843
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$2.128	$0.8798	$1.341	$0.919	$1.718	$1.062
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$2.256	$0.8533	$1.421	$0.975	$1.833	$1.191
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$2.336	$0.7508	$1.472	$0.916	$1.756	$1.052
AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1	$2.384	–	$1.502	$0.95	$1.852	$1.092
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$2.384	–	$1.502	$0.95	$1.852	$1.092
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$2.448	$0.7465	$1.542	$1.058	$1.969	$1.251

Reserved and Savings Plans Spot prices by region Windows prices by region Azure equivalents

Prices by operating system in US East (N. Virginia)

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$1.904	$1.20	$0.734
Ubuntu Pro	$1.96	–	–
SUSE	$2.029	$1.259	$0.788
RHEL	$2.25	$1.545	$1.08
Linux SQL Web	$2.445	$1.74	$1.275
RHEL HA	$2.698	$1.993	$1.528
RHEL SQL Web	$2.79	–	–
Windows	$3.376	$2.672	$2.206
Windows SQL Web	$3.917	$3.212	$2.747
Linux SQL Std	$5.744	$5.04	$4.574
RHEL SQL Std	$6.09	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Std	$6.538	–	–
Windows SQL Std	$7.216	$6.512	$6.046
Linux SQL Ent	$13.904	$13.20	$12.734
RHEL SQL Ent	$14.25	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Ent	$14.698	–	–
Windows SQL Ent	$15.376	$14.672	$14.206

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	32
Physical cores	16
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
CPU maker	Intel
Clock speed	3.1 GHz
Sustained clock	3.1 GHz
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	128

Networking	Value
Network	25 Gbps
Network baseline	25 Gbps
Network peak	25 Gbps
Enhanced networking	Yes (ENA)
EFA	No
IPv6	Yes
Max network interfaces	8
IPv4 addresses per interface	30

Storage	Value
Storage	EBS only
EBS optimized	Yes
EBS over NVMe	Required
EBS throughput	5000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	6,800 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	6,800 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	850 MB/s
EBS max throughput	850 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	30,000
EBS max IOPS	30,000
Max EBS volumes	27

Instance details	Value
Instance type	m5n.8xlarge
Family	m5n
Category	General purpose
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	64
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Nitro
Placement groups	Cluster, Partition, Spread
Hibernation	No
Nitro Enclaves	Yes
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS, UEFI

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Other m5n sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
m5n.large	2	8	$0.119
m5n.xlarge	4	16	$0.238
m5n.2xlarge	8	32	$0.476
m5n.4xlarge	16	64	$0.952
m5n.8xlarge	32	128	$1.904
m5n.12xlarge	48	192	$2.856
m5n.16xlarge	64	256	$3.808
m5n.24xlarge	96	384	$5.712
m5n.metal	96	384	$5.712

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS EC2 instances.