Instances›AWS EC2›m8i-flex›m8i-flex.2xlarge
Compute
vCPUs8
Memory32 GiB
Mem / vCPU4.00 GiB
ProcessorXeon Scalable
Clock speed3.9 GHz
Architecturex86_64
Storage
TypeEBS only
Bandwidth10,000 Mbps
Throughput1250 MB/s
IOPS40,000
Networking
PerformanceUp to 15 Gigabit
Max ENIs4
IPv6Yes
GPUNone
Family sizes
m8i-flex.large2 vCPU · 8 GiB
m8i-flex.xlarge4 vCPU · 16 GiB
m8i-flex.2xlarge8 vCPU · 32 GiB
m8i-flex.4xlarge16 vCPU · 64 GiB
m8i-flex.8xlarge32 vCPU · 128 GiB
m8i-flex.12xlarge48 vCPU · 192 GiB
m8i-flex.16xlarge64 vCPU · 256 GiB
m8i-flex.2xlarge

m8i-flex.2xlarge is AWS's general-purpose EC2 size at 8 vCPU and 32 GiB. It runs on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) at 3.9 GHz, and AWS introduced it in August 2025. On Rackspace Spot the same shape is gp.vs2.xlarge — 8 vCPU, 32 GiB, matched on both dimensions, about 92% below the US East (N. Virginia) on-demand rate.

Pricing by region
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RegionAWS on-demandAWS Spot1-yr Reserved3-yr ReservedRackspace SpotYou save
US East, N. Virginia$0.402$0.153$0.031
$0.371 savings
US Central, Chicagono AWS region$0.021
US Central, Dallasno AWS region$0.081
Hong Kong$0.006
Sydney, Australia$0.503$0.199$0.006
$0.497 savings
London, UK$0.465$0.148$0.031
$0.434 savings
US West, San Jose$0.469$0.139$0.081
$0.388 savings
US Central, Dallas 2no AWS region$0.081
US East, N. Virginia 2$0.402$0.153$0.081
$0.321 savings
When to use it
Good for
  • ●Microservices and container fleets
  • ●Development, staging and CI environments
  • ●Small to mid-size relational databases
  • ●Workloads that fit inside 32 GiB of RAM
  • ●Parallel work that can occupy 8 vCPU
  • ●Network-heavy services — AWS rates this size at Up to 15 Gigabit
Avoid if
  • ●The working set needs more than 32 GiB of RAM
  • ●GPU or FPGA acceleration is needed
  • ●Sustained full-core CPU load. A compute-optimized family costs less per unit of work.
  • ●More than 4.00 GiB of RAM per vCPU is needed — that ratio is fixed for the whole family
  • ●Local NVMe or instance-store disk is a hard requirement
Stop overpaying AWS. This compute costs $294/mo on AWS vs $23/mo on Rackspace Spot.
  • Spot sells spare capacity at market prices. It is the cheapest compute on the internet.
  • Prices are set by supply and demand. You pay what the market decides.
  • Compute is delivered as fully managed Kubernetes. All infrastructure is taken care of.
  • Egress costs $0.01/GB after the free allowance. AWS charges $0.09/GB.
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