m8g.xlarge

General purpose · AWS Graviton4 (Arm)

PostgreSQL benchmark results for the m8g.xlarge AWS EC2 instance with 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM, and arm64 architecture.

Compute

vCPU
4
Memory
16 GiB
Mem / vCPU
4 : 1

Platform

Family
m8g
Architecture
arm64
Performance
Fixed

Cost & region

On-demand
$0.1795/hr~$131/mo
Region
us-east-1

Chart

Change the metric and disk to see how the numbers shift as the dataset grows — and where it stops fitting in memory.

Open markers sit past the RAM limit (~12 GB of 16 GiB): the dataset no longer fits in cache, so the working set spills to disk and throughput drops.

All results

6 of 6 rows
m8g.xlarge PostgreSQL benchmark results
1 GBgp3-baseline70,871±0.1%351,8260.45±0.1%1.83±0.1%2.32±0.1%17,7184,429
10 GBgp3-baseline67,985±0.1%337,4980.47±0.1%1.86±0.2%2.34±0.1%16,9964,249
1 GBgp3-max67,428±0.2%199,2420.47±0.2%1.86±0.2%2.30±0.4%16,8574,214
10 GBgp3-max65,761±0.2%194,3150.49±0.2%1.88±0.0%2.32±0.1%16,4404,110
50 GBgp3-max18,812±0.2%55,5881.70±0.2%2.72±0.2%3.21±0.2%4,7031,176
50 GBgp3-baseline3,319±1.1%16,4759.64±1.1%14.99±0.8%17.83±1.4%830207