m6i.8xlarge

General purpose · m6i series · Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)

vCPU
32
Memory
128 GiB
Linux / hour
$1.54
Per month
$1,121
Per vCPU-hour
$0.0480
Per GiB-hour
$0.0120

Analysis

The m6i.8xlarge is a general purpose instance in the m6i series with 32 vCPUs and 128 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) (up to 3.5 GHz), which makes it balanced at 4 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Within the same generation and size, the m6g.8xlarge on AWS Graviton2 costs $1.23/hour, 20% less ($222 a month), though switching means rebuilding software for arm64. The other variants are the m6a.8xlarge at $1.38, the m6gd.8xlarge at $1.45 and the m6id.8xlarge at $1.90.

Running it in N. Virginia instead of São Paulo saves $666 a month per instance: $1.54/hour against $2.45/hour, a 59% spread.

On demand it costs $1.54/hour in US East (N. Virginia), $1,121 a month if left running, which puts it mid-table for general purpose types at the 29th percentile per vCPU ($0.0480 per vCPU-hour) and the 28th percentile per GiB ($0.0120 per GiB-hour).

Reserving it for a year with no upfront payment cuts the Linux rate to $1.02/hour, which beats on demand once it runs more than 66% of the time; three years brings it to $0.6967/hour, 55% below on demand. Windows Server roughly doubles the bill at $3.01/hour, because the licence is charged per vCPU.

The newer m7i.8xlarge on Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) is 5.0% dearer at $1.61/hour.

Price by region (USD per hour)

RegionLinuxWindows1-yr RI3-yr RI
N. Virginia us-east-1$1.54$3.01$1.02$0.6967
Ohio us-east-2$1.54$3.01$1.02$0.6967
Oregon us-west-2$1.54$3.01$1.02$0.6967
Canada Central ca-central-1$1.71$3.18$1.13$0.7802
São Paulo sa-east-1$2.45$3.92$1.52$1.11
Ireland eu-west-1$1.71$3.18$1.13$0.7766
London eu-west-2$1.78$3.25$1.17$0.8074
Frankfurt eu-central-1$1.84$3.31$1.22$0.8346
Mumbai ap-south-1$1.62$3.09$1.07$0.7348
Singapore ap-southeast-1$1.92$3.39$1.27$0.8709
Sydney ap-southeast-2$1.92$3.39$1.27$0.8709
Tokyo ap-northeast-1$1.98$3.46$1.31$0.8986

Shared tenancy, no pre-installed software. Reserved rates are standard, no upfront, per hour. Prices as of 2026-11-04.

Same shape, other types

TypevCPUMemory$/hourvs m6i.8xlarge
m6g.8xlarge
AWS Graviton2 Processor
32128 GiB$1.23-20%
m7g.8xlarge
AWS Graviton3 Processor
32128 GiB$1.31-15%
m5a.8xlarge
AMD EPYC 7571
32128 GiB$1.38-10%
m6a.8xlarge
AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
32128 GiB$1.38-10%
m8g.8xlarge
AWS Graviton4 Processor
32128 GiB$1.44-6%
m6gd.8xlarge
AWS Graviton2 Processor
32128 GiB$1.45-6%

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Specs

vCPU32
Memory128 GiB (4.0 per vCPU)
ProcessorIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock3.5 GHz
StorageEBS only
Network12500 Megabit

m6i sizes

m6i.large2 vCPU$0.0960
m6i.xlarge4 vCPU$0.1920
m6i.2xlarge8 vCPU$0.3840
m6i.4xlarge16 vCPU$0.7680
m6i.8xlarge32 vCPU$1.54
m6i.12xlarge48 vCPU$2.30
m6i.16xlarge64 vCPU$3.07
m6i.24xlarge96 vCPU$4.61
m6i.32xlarge128 vCPU$6.14