Benchmarks for m8a.large (AWS)

Individual CPU benchmark results for the AWS EC2 instance type m8a.large. The table displays the single-threaded CPU speed as reported by the Passmark benchmark tool, as well as the on-demand, spot pricing, and spot interruption percentage.

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✅ This instance type is available for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners using RunsOn.

EC2 Instance family: m8a

CPU type: 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors (codename Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz. Specific features: Built on the AWS Nitro System, offers up to 30% higher performance and 45% more memory bandwidth than M7a instances, and supports up to 75 Gbps networking bandwidth and Instance Bandwidth Configuration (IBC). Date of release: Generally available on October 8, 2025.

Results

This benchmark has been generated using the m8a.large instance type. Results are averaged over many days (you can mouse over the sparline to get more details).

🇺🇸 North Virginia (us-east-1)

Family	Instance type	Processor	CPU speed (avg)	$/hour on-demand	$/hour spot (avg)	Spot savings over on-demand	Spot % interruption
m8a	m8a.large	AMD EPYC 9R45 (x86_64)	3797	Not available	Not available	-	-

🇺🇸 Oregon (us-west-2)

Family	Instance type	Processor	CPU speed (avg)	$/hour on-demand	$/hour spot (avg)	Spot savings over on-demand	Spot % interruption
m8a	m8a.large	AMD EPYC 9R45 (x86_64)	3797	0.1217	0.0169	-	-

🇮🇪 Ireland (eu-west-1)

Family	Instance type	Processor	CPU speed (avg)	$/hour on-demand	$/hour spot (avg)	Spot savings over on-demand	Spot % interruption
m8a	m8a.large	AMD EPYC 9R45 (x86_64)	3797	Not available	Not available	-	-

🇩🇪 Frankfurt (eu-central-1)

Family	Instance type	Processor	CPU speed (avg)	$/hour on-demand	$/hour spot (avg)	Spot savings over on-demand	Spot % interruption
m8a	m8a.large	AMD EPYC 9R45 (x86_64)	3797	Not available	Not available	-	-

About those benchmarks

Benchmarks are performed using the Passmark benchmarking tool, using the CPU Single Threaded metric.