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Amazon EC2 M8g Instances
Best price performance for general purpose workloads in Amazon EC2
Why Amazon EC2 M8g Instances?
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, provide the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for general purpose workloads. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are ideal for workloads such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. M8g instances offer up to 30% better performance and larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPUs and memory than the seventh-generation AWS Graviton3-based M7g instances. M8g instances are also available with a local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage option (M8gd) for applications that need high-speed, low latency storage.
Amazon EC2 M8gn instances, featuring 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, offer up to 600 Gbps of network bandwidth, the highest network bandwidth among network optimized EC2 instances. These new instances are ideal for running the most demanding network-intensive workloads, such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF).
Amazon EC2 M8gb instances offer higher EBS performance compared to same-sized M8g instances. M8gb instances deliver up to 150 Gbps bandwidth and 720K IOPS of EBS performance. These instances are ideal for workloads requiring high block storage performance such as high performance databases and NoSQL databases.
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Benefits
M8g instances deliver up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based M7g instances. M8g instances include DDR5-5600 memory and are ideal for workloads such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets.
M8gn and M8gb instances include DDR-6400 memory. M8gn instances are ideal for workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF). M8gb instances are ideal for workloads requiring high block storage performance such as high performance databases and NoSQL databases.
M8g instances are built on the AWS Nitro System. The AWS Nitro System is a combination of dedicated hardware and a lightweight hypervisor that delivers isolated multitenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.
Features
AWS Graviton4 is the latest generation of server processors designed by AWS that provide the best performance and energy efficiency for workloads in Amazon EC2. AWS Graviton4 processors deliver up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3 processors.
AWS Graviton4 processors offer enhanced security with always-on memory encryption, dedicated caches for every vCPU, and support for pointer authentication. M8g instances also support encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).
Amazon EC2 M8g instances product details
M8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. They deliver the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for general purpose workloads.
| Instance size | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Instance storage (GB) | Network bandwidth (Gbps) | Amazon EBS bandwidth (Gbps) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
m8g.medium |
1 |
4 |
EBS-only |
Up to 12.5 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8g.large |
2 |
8 |
EBS-only |
Up to 12.5 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8g.xlarge |
4 |
16 |
EBS-only |
Up to 12.5 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8g.2xlarge |
8 |
32 |
EBS-only |
Up to 15 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8g.4xlarge |
16 |
64 |
EBS-only |
Up to 15 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8g.8xlarge |
32 |
128 |
EBS-only |
15 |
10 |
|
m8g.12xlarge |
48 |
192 |
EBS-only |
22.5 |
15 |
|
m8g.16xlarge |
64 |
256 |
EBS-only |
30 |
20 |
|
m8g.24xlarge |
96 |
384 |
EBS-only |
40 |
30 |
|
m8g.48xlarge |
192 |
768 |
EBS-only |
50 |
40 |
|
m8g.metal-24xl |
96 |
384 |
EBS-only |
40 |
30 |
|
m8g.metal-48xl |
192 |
768 |
EBS-only |
50 |
40 |
|
m8gd.medium |
1 |
4 |
1 x 59 NVMe SSD |
Up to 12.5 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8gd.large |
2 |
8 |
1 x 118 NVMe SSD |
Up to 12.5 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8gd.xlarge |
4 |
16 |
1 x 237 NVMe SSD |
Up to 12.5 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8gd.2xlarge |
8 |
32 |
1 x 474 NVMe SSD |
Up to 15 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8gd.4xlarge |
16 |
64 |
1 x 950 NVMe SSD |
Up to 15 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8gd.8xlarge |
32 |
128 |
1 x 1900 NVMe SSD |
15 |
10 |
|
m8g.12xlarge |
48 |
192 |
3 x 950 NVMe SSD |
22.5 |
15 |
|
m8gd.16xlarge |
64 |
256 |
2 x 1900 NVMe SSD |
30 |
20 |
|
m8gd.24xlarge |
96 |
384 |
3 x 1900 NVMe SSD |
40 |
30 |
|
m8gd.48xlarge |
192 |
768 |
6 x 1900 NVMe SSD |
50 |
40 |
|
m8gd.metal-24xl |
96 |
384 |
3 x 1900 NVMe SSD |
40 |
30 |
|
m8gd.metal-48xl |
192 |
768 |
6 x 1900 NVMe SSD |
50 |
40 |
Amazon EC2 M8gn instances product details
M8gn instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. They feature 6th generation AWS Nitro cards, offering up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth, the highest among network optimized EC2 instances.
| Instance size | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Instance storage (GB) | Network bandwidth (Gbps) | Amazon EBS bandwidth (Gbps) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
m8gn.medium |
1 |
4 |
EBS-only |
Up to 25 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8gn.large |
2 |
8 |
EBS-only |
Up to 30 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8gn.xlarge |
4 |
16 |
EBS-only |
Up to 40 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8gn.2xlarge |
8 |
32 |
EBS-only |
Up to 50 |
Up to 10 |
|
m8gn.4xlarge |
16 |
64 |
EBS-only |
50 |
10 |
|
m8gn.8xlarge |
32 |
128 |
EBS-only |
100 |
20 |
|
m8gn.12xlarge |
48 |
192 |
EBS-only |
150 |
30 |
|
m8gn.16xlarge |
64 |
256 |
EBS-only |
200 |
40 |
|
m8gn.24xlarge |
96 |
384 |
EBS-only |
300 |
60 |
|
m8gn.48xlarge |
192 |
768 |
EBS-only |
600 |
60 |
|
|
Amazon EC2 M8gb instances product details
M8gb instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. They have higher EBS performance compared to same-sized M8g instances. These instances are ideal for workloads requiring high block storage performance.
| Instance size | vCPU | Memory (GiB) | Instance storage (GB) | Network bandwidth (Gbps) | Amazon EBS bandwidth (Gbps) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
m8gb.medium |
1 |
4 |
EBS-only |
Up to 16.666 |
Up to 25 |
|
m8gb.large |
2 |
8 |
EBS-only |
Up to 20 |
Up to 25 |
|
m8gb.xlarge |
4 |
16 |
EBS-only |
Up to 26.666 |
Up to 25 |
|
m8gb.2xlarge |
8 |
32 |
EBS-only |
Up to 33.333 |
Up to 25 |
|
m8gb.4xlarge |
16 |
64 |
EBS-only |
33.333 |
25 |
|
m8gb.8xlarge |
32 |
128 |
EBS-only |
66.666 |
50 |
|
m8gb.12xlarge |
48 |
192 |
EBS-only |
100 |
75 |
|
m8gb.16xlarge |
64 |
256 |
EBS-only |
133.333 |
100 |
|
m8gb.24xlarge |
96 |
384 |
EBS-only |
200 |
150 |
|
|
Arctic Wolf
"Arctic Wolf is the leader in security operations. Using the cloud-native Arctic Wolf Platform, we help organizations end cyber risks by providing security operations as a concierge service. All Arctic Wolf solutions were developed in collaboration with AWS. Our relationship ensures Arctic Wolf technology, processes, and services fully utilize AWS advanced computing including AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instances, storage, networking, and more. With AWS Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 M7g instances we achieved up to 20% performance and 17% price-performance improvement over comparable x86-based instances. With the launch of Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 M8g instances we look forward to further improve both customer efficiencies and experience through greater performance and sustainability benefits."
IBM
"At its core Instana is a real-time streaming analytics platform. We collect, process, analyze, and store petabytes of data in order to build a digital twin of the observed environments. This means handling one-second granularity metrics and 100% of IT request traces, along with logs, events, performance profiles, and other data. Performance and efficiency are key to the way we run our platform at scale. We previously transitioned to AWS Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g, and R7g instances across our distributed microservice and datastore deployments. This helped us achieve up to 35% reduction in CPU utilization with 18% lower cost. AWS Graviton4 takes us beyond that. Our tests show further reduction in CPU utilization by up to 30%. At the same time, it improved our platform’s responsiveness and query times. With the release of the new Graviton4-based C8g and M8g instances, we’re now in a position to adopt Graviton4 to optimize the price performance of all varieties of our workloads."
Quora
"We migrated our Python webservers to the AWS Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7g instances. We observed an up to 30% improvement in price performance compared to the leading x86-based Amazon EC2 instances available at that time. This motivated us to migrate many more services to Graviton, including asynchronous task workers (Airflow, email servers), data processing engines (Spark, Trino), and caching servers (Memcached, Redis). Remarkably, we saw similar great performance improvement and cost reduction in all of the systems we migrated. Graviton has become a key pillar in our cost-management strategy, enabling us to save costs while delivering a fast and responsive product experience to our users. We are excited about AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 C8g instances with more performance and larger instance sizes and expect it to further help our existing and new workloads."
Zendesk
"At Zendesk we’re on a mission to simplify the complexity of business and make it easy for companies and customers to create connections. Since migrating a large portion of our Kubernetes -based platform to AWS Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 M7g instances in February ’23, Zendesk has enjoyed a ~15% performance boost at a lower cost point. With the coming AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 M8g instances offering up to 30% better performance vs. M7g instances, we look forward to pushing the needle further. We’re excited about the larger instances sizes too. With up to 192 vCPUs, there's more opportunity for our Kubernetes control plane to bin-pack and colocate performance-critical services, offering an even better experience for our customers."
Bright Data
"By migrating to AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances, we have transformed our operational performance. For example, after upgrading to Amazon EC2 I8g instances, we see 133% better performance in the MongoDB database tasked with 1 billion daily record updates. A critical server infrastructure that manages more than 300,000 concurrent websocket connections experienced similar gains: a 66% performance improvement after transitioning from Amazon EC2 M6g instances to Amazon EC2 M8g instances. These enhancements have not only reduced our infrastructure costs but also enabled us to deliver faster, more reliable data services to our clients, strengthening our position as the world's leading web data platform."
Adevinta
"By migrating our Kafka fleet from x86-based Amazon EC2 M6i instances to AWS Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 M7g instances, we improved our throughput by up to 30% and reduced p95 latency by over 25%. With Graviton’s lower hourly pricing, this translates into a ~35% cost-per-million-messages reduction for produced data and ~30% for consumed data. The migration required minimal changes to our pipeline, and we were able to fully automate the migration process. We are already testing AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 M8g instances with promising results."