Instances›AWS EC2›m8ine›m8ine.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
Performance12.5 Gigabit
Max ENIs4
IPv6Yes
GPUNone
Family sizes
m8ine.large2 vCPU · 8 GiB
m8ine.xlarge4 vCPU · 16 GiB
m8ine.2xlarge8 vCPU · 32 GiB
m8ine.4xlarge16 vCPU · 64 GiB
m8ine.8xlarge32 vCPU · 128 GiB
m8ine.12xlarge48 vCPU · 192 GiB
m8ine.2xlarge

The m8ine.2xlarge pairs 8 vCPU with 32 GiB of RAM, the 4.00 GiB-per-vCPU ratio that marks a general-purpose instance. In the name, "m" is the general-purpose line, "8" is the generation, "ine" marks Intel processors, enhanced networking and extended capacity and "2xlarge" is the size within the m8ine 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 193,039 — roughly 50% more throughput for the same vCPU count. gp.vs2.xlarge on Rackspace Spot lines up one-for-one: 8 vCPU and 32 GiB, $0.835/hr on AWS in US East (N. Virginia), from $0.031/hr on Rackspace Spot.

Pricing by region
1 hr
RegionAWS on-demandAWS Spot1-yr Reserved3-yr ReservedRackspace SpotYou save
US East, N. Virginia$0.835$0.357$0.031
$0.804 savings
US Central, Chicagono AWS region$0.021
US Central, Dallasno 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 2no AWS region$0.081
US East, N. Virginia 2$0.835$0.357$0.081
$0.754 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 12.5 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
m8ine.2xlarge runs $610/mo on AWS on-demand. The equivalent on Rackspace Spot: $23/mo.
  • 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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