Instances›AWS EC2›m8i›m8i.large
Compute
vCPUs2
Memory8 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 12.5 Gigabit
Max ENIs3
IPv6Yes
GPUNone
Family sizes
m8i.large2 vCPU · 8 GiB
m8i.xlarge4 vCPU · 16 GiB
m8i.2xlarge8 vCPU · 32 GiB
m8i.4xlarge16 vCPU · 64 GiB
m8i.8xlarge32 vCPU · 128 GiB
m8i.12xlarge48 vCPU · 192 GiB
m8i.16xlarge64 vCPU · 256 GiB
m8i.24xlarge96 vCPU · 384 GiB
m8i.32xlarge128 vCPU · 512 GiB
m8i.48xlarge192 vCPU · 768 GiB
m8i.metal-48xl192 vCPU · 768 GiB
m8i.96xlarge384 vCPU · 1536 GiB
m8i.metal-96xl384 vCPU · 1536 GiB
m8i.large

The m8i.large is a general-purpose AWS EC2 instance: 2 vCPU and 8 GiB of memory, 4.00 GiB per vCPU. In the name, "m" is the general-purpose line, "8" is the generation, "i" marks Intel processors and "large" is the size within the m8i family. It runs on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) at 3.9 GHz, and AWS introduced it in August 2025. AWS has since shipped m9g; m9g.large is the direct replacement at this size, scoring 71,986 CoreMark/s against this instance's 44,021 — roughly 64% more throughput for the same vCPU count. The nearest Spot node is gp.vs2.large at 4 vCPU and 16 GiB — 2 more vCPU and 8 GiB more memory, about 90% 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$0.106$0.037$0.011
$0.095 savings
US Central, Chicagono AWS region$0.011
US Central, Dallasno AWS region$0.021
Hong Kong$0.011
Sydney, Australia$0.132$0.044$0.011
$0.121 savings
London, UK$0.122$0.042$0.026
$0.096 savings
US West, San Jose$0.123$0.037$0.041
$0.082 savings
US Central, Dallas 2no AWS region$0.041
US East, N. Virginia 2$0.106$0.037$0.041
$0.065 savings
When to use it
Good for
  • ●Queue workers and scheduled jobs
  • ●Web and application servers with mixed CPU and memory demand
  • ●Microservices and container fleets
  • ●Workloads that fit inside 8 GiB of RAM
  • ●Small, steady services that do not need more than 2 vCPU
  • ●Network-heavy services — AWS rates this size at Up to 12.5 Gigabit
Avoid if
  • ●The working set needs more than 8 GiB of RAM
  • ●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
  • ●GPU or FPGA acceleration is needed
$77/mo on AWS on-demand against $8/mo on Rackspace Spot for the equivalent — market-priced, not list-priced.
  • 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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