Instances›AWS EC2›m8ine›m8ine.xlarge
Compute
vCPUs4
Memory16 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
Performance6.25 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.xlarge

The m8ine.xlarge is a general-purpose AWS EC2 instance: 4 vCPU and 16 GiB of memory, 4.00 GiB per vCPU. In the name, "m" is the general-purpose line, "8" is the generation, "ine" marks Intel processors, enhanced networking and extended capacity and "xlarge" 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.xlarge is the direct replacement at this size, scoring 145,914 CoreMark/s against this instance's 97,331 — roughly 50% more throughput for the same vCPU count. Rackspace Spot's gp.vs2.large is a like-for-like substitute at 4 vCPU and 16 GiB, $0.418/hr on AWS in US East (N. Virginia), from $0.011/hr on Rackspace Spot.

Pricing by region
1 hr
RegionAWS on-demandAWS Spot1-yr Reserved3-yr ReservedRackspace SpotYou save
US East, N. Virginia$0.418$0.142$0.011
$0.407 savings
US Central, Chicagono AWS region$0.011
US Central, Dallasno AWS region$0.021
Hong Kong$0.011
Sydney, Australia$0.011
London, UK$0.026
US West, San Jose$0.041
US Central, Dallas 2no AWS region$0.041
US East, N. Virginia 2$0.418$0.142$0.041
$0.377 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 16 GiB of RAM
  • ●Small, steady services that do not need more than 4 vCPU
  • ●Network-heavy services — AWS rates this size at 6.25 Gigabit
Avoid if
  • ●The working set needs more than 16 GiB of RAM
  • ●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
  • ●Sustained full-core CPU load. A compute-optimized family costs less per unit of work.
m8ine.xlarge runs $305/mo on AWS on-demand. The equivalent on Rackspace Spot: $8/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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