Per-hour pricing

Region	AWS on-demand	AWS Spot	Rackspace Spot	You save
US East, N. Virginia	$0.668	$0.286	$0.031	$0.637 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US Central, Chicago	no AWS region		$0.021
US Central, Dallas	no AWS region		$0.081
Hong Kong			$0.006
Sydney, Australia			$0.006
London, UK			$0.031
US West, San Jose			$0.081
US Central, Dallas 2	no AWS region		$0.081
US East, N. Virginia 2	$0.668	$0.286	$0.081	$0.587 savingsBuild Cloudspace

Monthly pricing (730 hrs)

Region	AWS on-demand	AWS Spot	Rackspace Spot	You save
US East, N. Virginia	$488	$209	$23	$465 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US Central, Chicago	no AWS region		$15
US Central, Dallas	no AWS region		$59
Hong Kong			$4
Sydney, Australia			$4
London, UK			$23
US West, San Jose			$59
US Central, Dallas 2	no AWS region		$59
US East, N. Virginia 2	$488	$209	$59	$429 savingsBuild Cloudspace

Instances›AWS EC2›m8in›m8in.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 40 Gigabit

Max ENIs4

IPv6Yes

GPUNone

Family sizes

m8in.large2 vCPU · 8 GiB

m8in.xlarge4 vCPU · 16 GiB

m8in.2xlarge8 vCPU · 32 GiB

m8in.4xlarge16 vCPU · 64 GiB

m8in.8xlarge32 vCPU · 128 GiB

m8in.12xlarge48 vCPU · 192 GiB

m8in.16xlarge64 vCPU · 256 GiB

m8in.24xlarge96 vCPU · 384 GiB

m8in.32xlarge128 vCPU · 512 GiB

m8in.48xlarge192 vCPU · 768 GiB

m8in.metal-48xl192 vCPU · 768 GiB

m8in.96xlarge384 vCPU · 1536 GiB

m8in.metal-96xl384 vCPU · 1536 GiB

m8in.2xlarge

m8in.2xlarge is AWS's general-purpose EC2 size at 8 vCPU and 32 GiB. In the name, "m" is the general-purpose line, "8" is the generation, "in" marks Intel processors and enhanced networking and "2xlarge" is the size within the m8in family. It runs on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) at 3.9 GHz, and AWS introduced it in April 2026. AWS has since shipped m9g; m9g.2xlarge is the direct replacement at this size, scoring 290,293 CoreMark/s against this instance's 198,061 — roughly 47% more throughput for the same vCPU count. On Rackspace Spot the same shape is gp.vs2.xlarge — 8 vCPU, 32 GiB, matched on both dimensions, about 95% below the US East (N. Virginia) on-demand rate.

Pricing by region

1 hr

Region	AWS on-demand	AWS Spot	Rackspace Spot	You save
US East, N. Virginia	$0.668	$0.286	$0.031	$0.637 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US Central, Chicago	no AWS region		$0.021
US Central, Dallas	no AWS region		$0.081
Hong Kong			$0.006
Sydney, Australia			$0.006
London, UK			$0.031
US West, San Jose			$0.081
US Central, Dallas 2	no AWS region		$0.081
US East, N. Virginia 2	$0.668	$0.286	$0.081	$0.587 savingsBuild Cloudspace

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 32 GiB of RAM
●Parallel work that can occupy 8 vCPU
●Network-heavy services — AWS rates this size at Up to 40 Gigabit

Avoid if

●The working set needs more than 32 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

$488/mo on AWS on-demand against $23/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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