US
N. Virginia
us-east-1
spot · 7-day average $0.0361/hr
on-demand$0.0898
spot interrupt freq 15-20%
m8g.large
AWS Graviton4 processors. General-purpose instances, up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based M7g instances, built on the AWS Nitro System, and feature DDR5-5600 memory. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon EBS.
available for self-hosted runners on RunsOn
single-thread · passmark
1,940pts
vcpus
2
2 cores
memory
8 GiB
ram
clock speed
2.8 GHz
max frequency
architecture
arm64
Graviton
Measured
2 jobs of 2 finished in the EC2 CPU sweep, 30 Sep–10 Oct: the values are their medians. Every job links its log on the open harness.
CPU Mark
1,971
PassMark, both vCPUs
cores of work
1.99
sysbench, 2 threads ÷ 1
sysbench 1 thread
3,255
events per second
7-zip
14,112
MIPS, all threads
| date | suite | single-thread | capacity | job log |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Oct 2026 | EC2 CPU sweep | 1,942 | spot | job log ↗ |
| 30 Sep 2026 | EC2 CPU sweep | 1,938 | on-demand | job log ↗ |
EC2 instance family: m8g
What the family is built for, the silicon underneath, and how to ask RunsOn for it.
m8g general purpose
cpu type
Neoverse-V2 — AWS Graviton4 processors
architecture
arm64
highlights
General-purpose instances, up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based M7g instances, built on the AWS Nitro System, and feature DDR5-5600 memory. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon EBS
released
General Availability was announced on September 25, 2024
.github/workflows/ci.yml yaml
jobs: build: runs-on: - runs-on=${{ github.run_id }} - family=m8g - cpu=2
the label is a query — each line one constraint, resolved at launch. job labels →
Availability & price by region
Spot is the 7-day average of the cheapest zone's spot price in each region, from the RunsOn finder: an estimate of an hour in your own AWS account, where RunsOn adds no markup. The bar shows how far it runs under on-demand; the badge is AWS's spot-interruption band for the type.
US cheapest spot
Oregon
us-west-2
spot · 7-day average $0.0243/hr
on-demand$0.0898
spot interrupt freq <5%
IE
Ireland
eu-west-1
spot · 7-day average $0.0483/hr
on-demand$0.1000
spot interrupt freq 5-10%
DE
Frankfurt
eu-central-1
spot · 7-day average $0.0481/hr
on-demand$0.1075
spot interrupt freq <5%
Spot is the cheapest availability zone's spot price at each of the RunsOn finder's fetches (every 90 minutes), averaged over 7 days; on-demand is the Linux list price. Savings compare the two. Prices fetched 12 Oct 2026. The interruption band is AWS Spot Advisor's, fetched 12 Oct 2026.
About these benchmarks
The open benchmark harness launches m8g.large as a RunsOn runner and runs PassMark PerformanceTest (CPU Single
Threaded and CPU Mark), sysbench on one thread and on every thread, and 7-Zip's built-in benchmark. These numbers come from the
EC2 CPU sweep, the suite that measured this type in the most runs; each is the median over its runs of the current
workload definition in the last 75 days.
A type takes a place once it has 3 runs. A type within 5% of the type heading its group shares that place (“joint #2”); a lead under 5% is no lead.
Prices come from the RunsOn finder for the four regions shown; savings compare its 7-day average spot price with the on-demand price. RunsOn launches this type the same way for any job: ephemeral EC2 in your account, one CloudFormation stack. More in the methodology.
Run m8g.large in your own account.
The benchmark runs on the same RunsOn anyone can deploy. One CloudFormation stack, your AWS account, ~10 minutes.