m8g.24xlarge is AWS's general-purpose EC2 size at 96 vCPU and 384 GiB. In the name, "m" is the general-purpose line, "8" is the generation, "g" marks AWS Graviton (ARM) processors and "24xlarge" is the size within the m8g family. It runs on AWS Graviton4 Processor at 2.7 GHz, and AWS introduced it in September 2024. AWS has since shipped m9g; m9g.24xlarge is the direct replacement at this size, scoring 3,487,950 CoreMark/s against this instance's 2,983,683 — roughly 17% more throughput for the same vCPU count. The closest Spot shape is gp.vs2.2xlarge at 16 vCPU, so this instance maps to 6 of them — 96 vCPU and 384 GiB across the fleet, about 94% below the US East (N. Virginia) on-demand rate. Spot delivers compute as managed Kubernetes, so a node pool of that size is the native shape of the answer rather than a workaround — provided the workload scales horizontally.
| Region | AWS on-demand | AWS Spot | 1-yr Reserved | 3-yr Reserved | Rackspace Spot | You save |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US East, N. Virginia | $4.309 | $1.086 | $2.850 | $1.954 | $0.246 | $4.063 savings |
| US Central, Chicago | no AWS region | $0.246 | ||||
| US Central, Dallas | no AWS region | $0.306 | ||||
| Hong Kong | $5.924 | $3.919 | $2.687 | $0.066 | $5.858 savings | |
| Sydney, Australia | $5.386 | $1.237 | $3.563 | $2.442 | $0.966 | $4.420 savings |
| London, UK | $4.982 | $0.780 | $3.291 | $2.265 | $1.326 | $3.656 savings |
| US West, San Jose | $5.027 | $1.139 | $3.315 | $2.290 | $0.906 | $4.121 savings |
| US Central, Dallas 2 | no AWS region | $0.006 | ||||
| US East, N. Virginia 2 | $4.309 | $1.086 | $2.850 | $1.954 | $0.906 | $3.403 savings |