r8g.medium

Memory optimized · AWS Graviton4 (Arm)

PostgreSQL benchmark results for the r8g.medium AWS EC2 instance with 1 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, and arm64 architecture.

Compute

vCPU
1
Memory
8 GiB
Mem / vCPU
8 : 1

Platform

Family
r8g
Architecture
arm64
Performance
Fixed

Cost & region

On-demand
$0.0523/hr~$38/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 (~6 GB of 8 GiB): the dataset no longer fits in cache, so the working set spills to disk and throughput drops.

All results

6 of 6 rows
r8g.medium PostgreSQL benchmark results
1 GBgp3-baseline16,482±0.2%222,1971.94±0.2%3.51±0.1%4.29±0.2%16,4822,060
1 GBgp3-max16,050±7.7%76,0082.01±7.7%3.68±7.5%4.74±10.2%16,0502,006
10 GBgp3-baseline5,488±4.1%73,9815.84±4.0%11.46±4.9%14.43±4.9%5,488686
10 GBgp3-max12,979±2.9%61,4622.47±3.0%3.92±3.0%4.98±2.2%12,9791,622
50 GBgp3-max11,226±0.1%53,1642.85±0.1%3.98±0.1%5.83±0.9%11,2261,403
50 GBgp3-baseline2,718±0.2%36,64111.77±0.2%17.33±0.2%19.87±0.9%2,718340