M8G General Purpose

Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purposem = General PurposeBalanced compute, memory, and networking resources for a wide variety of standard enterprise workloads and microservices.88th Generation8 = 8th GenerationAWS 8th generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.gAWS Gravitong = AWS GravitonAWS Graviton4 Processor (arm64). Powered by custom 64-bit ARM AWS Graviton processors, delivering industry-leading price-performance and power efficiency.

Alternatives to m8g

OptionPrice vs m8gWhy look at it
c8gCompare →
-11%-$0.02/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Different instance family, 8 GiB RAM instead of 16, same vCPU
r8gCompare →
+31%+$0.0561/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Different instance family, 32 GiB RAM instead of 16, same vCPU

Common use cases

  • Web servers
  • Application servers
  • Small-to-medium databases
  • Development environments

Head-to-Head Architecture Comparisons

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Silicon Trianglec8g vs m8g vs r8g

AWS Graviton4 Flagship Comparison: C8g vs M8g vs R8g

Next-gen Graviton4 ARM Neoverse V2 architecture across compute, memory, and general tiers

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Instance types (10)

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
m8g.medium14 GBarm64$0.0321
m8g.large28 GBarm64$0.0642
m8g.xlarge416 GBarm64$0.1283
m8g.2xlarge832 GBarm64$0.2566
m8g.4xlarge1664 GBarm64$0.5133
m8g.8xlarge32128 GBarm64$1.0266
m8g.12xlarge48192 GBarm64$1.5398
m8g.16xlarge64256 GBarm64$2.0531
m8g.24xlarge96384 GBarm64$3.0797
m8g.48xlarge192768 GBarm64$6.1594