db.m8gd.8xlarge

db.m8gd.8xlarge is an AWS RDS size with 32 vCPUs, 128 GiB memory. In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $3.162 per hour on demand ($2,307.97 per month) for PostgreSQL, Single-AZ; a 1-year Database Savings Plan costs $2.529 per hour, 20% less. It is sold in 12 regions.

Prices by region

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

Region	On-demand	1-yr savings plan
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$3.162	$2.529
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$3.162	$2.529
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$3.162	$2.529
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2	$3.483	$2.787
Canada (Central) ca-central-1	$3.641	$2.913
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$3.649	$2.919
Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5	$3.743	$2.994
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$3.792	$3.034
EU (London) eu-west-2	$3.847	$3.078
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$4.422	$3.538
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$4.697	$3.758
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$5.027	$4.022

Reserved and Savings Plans

Prices by engine and deployment in US East (N. Virginia)

Option	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
PostgreSQL · Single-AZ	$3.162	–	–
PostgreSQL · Multi-AZ	$6.323	–	–
PostgreSQL · Multi-AZ (readable standbys)	$9.485	–	–
MariaDB · Single-AZ	$3.162	–	–
MySQL · Single-AZ	$3.162	–	–
MariaDB · Multi-AZ	$6.323	–	–
MySQL · Multi-AZ	$6.323	–	–
MySQL · Multi-AZ (readable standbys)	$9.485	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	32
Physical cores	32
Threads per core	1
Architecture	arm64
CPU maker	AWS
Sustained clock	2.8 GHz
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	128

Networking	Value
Network baseline	15 Gbps
Network peak	15 Gbps

Storage	Value
Local disks	1 × 1,900 GB SSD
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

Instance details	Value
Instance type	db.m8gd.8xlarge
Family	m8gd
Normalization factor	64

Other	Value
Hardware Basis	m8gd.8xlarge

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Other m8gd sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
db.m8gd.large	2	8	$0.1976
db.m8gd.xlarge	4	16	$0.3952
db.m8gd.2xlarge	8	32	$0.7904
db.m8gd.4xlarge	16	64	$1.581
db.m8gd.8xlarge	32	128	$3.162
db.m8gd.12xlarge	48	192	$4.742
db.m8gd.16xlarge	64	256	$6.323
db.m8gd.24xlarge	96	384	$9.485
db.m8gd.48xlarge	192	768	$18.97

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS RDS sizes.