m8g

General purpose · AWS Graviton4 (Arm)

M8g instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based M7g instances. Their balanced 4 GiB-per-vCPU ratio suits general-purpose workloads such as application servers, microservices, midsize data stores, and caching fleets.

Specs

Architecture
arm64
Performance
Fixed
vCPU
1 – 8
Memory
4 GiB – 32 GiB
Mem / vCPU
4 : 1
On-demand
$0.0449/hr – $0.3590/hr

Chart

Change the metric and dataset size to see how the numbers shift — and where the data stops fitting in memory.

At 1 GB the dataset fits in RAM on every tested size — these results are CPU-bound.

All results

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m8g EC2 family PostgreSQL benchmark results
m8g.large1 GBarm64gp3-baseline2845,515±0.1%407,555$0.1117/hr0.70±0.1%2.02±0.3%2.76±0.2%22,7575,689
m8g.xlarge1 GBarm64gp3-baseline41670,871±0.1%351,826$0.2014/hr0.45±0.1%1.83±0.1%2.32±0.1%17,7184,429
m8g.xlarge10 GBarm64gp3-baseline41667,985±0.1%337,498$0.2014/hr0.47±0.1%1.86±0.2%2.34±0.1%16,9964,249
m8g.medium1 GBarm64gp3-baseline1416,670±0.4%249,555$0.0668/hr1.92±0.4%3.44±0.5%4.28±0.6%16,6704,167
m8g.2xlarge1 GBarm64gp3-baseline83281,451±0.7%213,807$0.3810/hr0.39±0.7%1.75±0.3%2.13±0.1%10,1812,545
m8g.2xlarge10 GBarm64gp3-baseline83281,055±0.2%212,767$0.3810/hr0.39±0.2%1.75±0.2%2.13±0.1%10,1322,533
m8g.xlarge1 GBarm64gp3-max41667,428±0.2%199,242$0.3384/hr0.47±0.2%1.86±0.2%2.30±0.4%16,8574,214
m8g.xlarge10 GBarm64gp3-max41665,761±0.2%194,315$0.3384/hr0.49±0.2%1.88±0.0%2.32±0.1%16,4404,110
m8g.2xlarge1 GBarm64gp3-max83281,697±0.4%157,734$0.5179/hr0.39±0.4%1.76±0.1%2.14±0.2%10,2122,553
m8g.2xlarge10 GBarm64gp3-max83281,593±0.4%157,531$0.5179/hr0.39±0.4%1.76±0.1%2.13±0.1%10,1992,550
m8g.large1 GBarm64gp3-max2838,463±0.3%154,678$0.2487/hr0.83±0.3%2.36±0.2%3.06±0.3%19,2314,808
m8g.large10 GBarm64gp3-max2827,849±1.1%111,993$0.2487/hr1.15±1.1%2.37±0.9%2.95±1.9%13,9243,481
m8g.medium1 GBarm64gp3-max1416,487±0.2%80,903$0.2038/hr1.94±0.2%3.53±0.2%4.31±0.2%16,4874,122
m8g.large50 GBarm64gp3-max2815,460±0.0%62,173$0.2487/hr2.07±0.0%3.12±0.0%3.62±0.1%7,7301,933
m8g.medium10 GBarm64gp3-max1412,618±0.3%61,919$0.2038/hr2.54±0.3%3.74±0.3%5.01±0.8%12,6183,155
m8g.xlarge50 GBarm64gp3-max41618,812±0.2%55,588$0.3384/hr1.70±0.2%2.72±0.2%3.21±0.2%4,7031,176
m8g.medium10 GBarm64gp3-baseline143,537±0.1%52,952$0.0668/hr9.05±0.1%13.81±0.2%16.48±0.3%3,537884
m8g.medium50 GBarm64gp3-max1410,752±0.2%52,762$0.2038/hr2.98±0.2%4.04±0.2%6.04±0.4%10,7522,688
m8g.2xlarge50 GBarm64gp3-max83226,893±1.4%51,922$0.5179/hr1.19±1.4%3.02±1.2%3.95±1.3%3,362840
m8g.large10 GBarm64gp3-baseline285,485±3.6%49,117$0.1117/hr5.84±3.6%11.91±4.1%14.93±3.9%2,743686
m8g.medium50 GBarm64gp3-baseline142,028±0.1%30,357$0.0668/hr15.78±0.1%21.58±0.3%23.85±0.4%2,028507
m8g.large50 GBarm64gp3-baseline282,718±0.3%24,333$0.1117/hr11.78±0.3%17.58±0.5%20.40±1.2%1,359340
m8g.xlarge50 GBarm64gp3-baseline4163,319±1.1%16,475$0.2014/hr9.64±1.1%14.99±0.8%17.83±1.4%830207
m8g.2xlarge50 GBarm64gp3-baseline8325,270±0.8%13,835$0.3810/hr6.07±0.8%18.97±14.3%27.77±25.3%659165