m8gd.8xlarge

General purpose · m8gd series · AWS Graviton4 Processor

vCPU
32
Memory
128 GiB
Linux / hour
$1.85
Per month
$1,347
Per vCPU-hour
$0.0577
Per GiB-hour
$0.0144

Analysis

The m8gd.8xlarge is a general purpose instance in the m8gd series with 32 vCPUs and 128 GiB of memory on AWS Graviton4 (up to 2.7 GHz), which makes it balanced at 4 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Within the same generation and size, the m8g.8xlarge on AWS Graviton4 costs $1.44/hour, 22% less ($299 a month). The other variants are the m8i-flex.8xlarge at $1.61, the m8i.8xlarge at $1.69 and the m8a.8xlarge at $1.95.

Running it in Mumbai instead of São Paulo saves $1,250 a month per instance: $1.23/hour against $2.94/hour, a 140% spread.

Compared with the previous generation, it costs 8.0% more than the m7gd.8xlarge on AWS Graviton3 ($99.66 more a month per instance), in exchange for the newer processor. The newer m9gd.8xlarge on AWS Graviton5 is 9.0% dearer at $2.01/hour.

It has local instance storage (1 x 1900 GB NVMe SSD), which is fast but lost when the instance stops. Network: 15 Gigabit.

On demand it costs $1.85/hour in US East (N. Virginia), $1,347 a month if left running, which puts it mid-table for general purpose types at the 52nd percentile per vCPU ($0.0577 per vCPU-hour) and the 52nd percentile per GiB ($0.0144 per GiB-hour).

Looking beyond its own line, 17 of 37 current types with 32 vCPUs and similar memory are cheaper. The cheapest of those is the m6g.8xlarge on AWS Graviton2 at $1.23/hour.

Price by region (USD per hour)

RegionLinuxWindows1-yr RI3-yr RI
N. Virginia us-east-1$1.85–––
Ohio us-east-2$1.85–––
Oregon us-west-2$1.85–––
Canada Central ca-central-1$2.06–––
São Paulo sa-east-1$2.94–––
Ireland eu-west-1$2.06–––
London eu-west-2$2.14–––
Frankfurt eu-central-1$2.22–––
Mumbai ap-south-1$1.23–––
Singapore ap-southeast-1$2.30–––
Sydney ap-southeast-2$2.32–––
Tokyo ap-northeast-1$2.38–––

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 m8gd.8xlarge
m6g.8xlarge
AWS Graviton2 Processor
32128 GiB$1.23-33%
m7g.8xlarge
AWS Graviton3 Processor
32128 GiB$1.31-29%
m5a.8xlarge
AMD EPYC 7571
32128 GiB$1.38-25%
m6a.8xlarge
AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor
32128 GiB$1.38-25%
m8g.8xlarge
AWS Graviton4 Processor
32128 GiB$1.44-22%
m6gd.8xlarge
AWS Graviton2 Processor
32128 GiB$1.45-22%

Cost calculator

Specs

vCPU32
Memory128 GiB (4.0 per vCPU)
ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock2.7 GHz
Storage1 x 1900 NVMe SSD
Network15 Gigabit

m8gd sizes

m8gd.medium1 vCPU$0.0577
m8gd.large2 vCPU$0.1153
m8gd.xlarge4 vCPU$0.2306
m8gd.2xlarge8 vCPU$0.4613
m8gd.4xlarge16 vCPU$0.9226
m8gd.8xlarge32 vCPU$1.85
m8gd.12xlarge48 vCPU$2.77
m8gd.16xlarge64 vCPU$3.69
m8gd.24xlarge96 vCPU$5.54
m8gd.48xlarge192 vCPU$11.07