m8a.8xlarge

m8a.8xlarge is an AWS EC2 instance with 32 vCPUs, 128 GiB memory (AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $1.948 per hour on demand ($1,421.68 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.4813 per hour. It is sold in 10 regions.

Prices by region

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

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$1.948	$0.4813	$1.431	$0.9877
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$1.948	$0.5115	$1.431	$0.9877
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$1.948	$0.7414	$1.431	$0.9877
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2	$2.049	$0.2049	$1.512	$1.03
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1	$2.049	$0.6497	$1.512	$1.03
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2	$2.171	$0.3555	$1.648	$1.14
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$2.171	$1.047	$1.648	$1.14
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$2.333	$0.8467	$1.779	$1.213
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$2.455	–	$1.94	$1.284
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$2.515	$0.9138	$1.905	$1.307

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	$1.948	–	–
Ubuntu Pro	$2.003	–	–
SUSE	$2.072	–	–
RHEL	$2.293	–	–
Linux SQL Web	$2.488	–	–
RHEL HA	$2.741	–	–
RHEL SQL Web	$2.834	–	–
Windows	$3.42	–	–
Windows SQL Web	$3.96	–	–
Linux SQL Std	$5.787	–	–
RHEL SQL Std	$6.133	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Std	$6.581	–	–
Windows SQL Std	$7.26	–	–
Linux SQL Ent	$13.947	–	–
RHEL SQL Ent	$14.293	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Ent	$14.741	–	–
Windows SQL Ent	$15.419	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	32
Physical cores	32
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor
CPU maker	AMD
Clock speed	Up to 4.5 GHz
Sustained clock	4.5 GHz
Processor features	AMD Turbo; AVX; AVX2; AVX512
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	128

Networking	Value
Network	15 Gbps
Network baseline	15 Gbps
Network peak	15 Gbps
Enhanced networking	Yes (ENA)
EFA	No
IPv6	Yes
Max network interfaces	10
IPv4 addresses per interface	40

Storage	Value
Storage	EBS only
EBS optimized	Yes
EBS over NVMe	Required
EBS throughput	10000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	10,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	10,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	1,250 MB/s
EBS max throughput	1,250 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	40,000
EBS max IOPS	40,000
Max EBS volumes	32

Instance details	Value
Instance type	m8a.8xlarge
Family	m8a
Category	General purpose
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	64
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Nitro
Placement groups	Cluster, Partition, Spread
Hibernation	Yes
Nitro Enclaves	Yes
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS, UEFI

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Other m8a sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
m8a.medium	1	4	$0.0609
m8a.large	2	8	$0.1217
m8a.xlarge	4	16	$0.2434
m8a.2xlarge	8	32	$0.4869
m8a.4xlarge	16	64	$0.9738
m8a.8xlarge	32	128	$1.948
m8a.12xlarge	48	192	$2.921
m8a.16xlarge	64	256	$3.895
m8a.24xlarge	96	384	$5.843
m8a.metal-24xl	96	384	$5.843
m8a.48xlarge	192	768	$11.685
m8a.metal-48xl	192	768	$11.685

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