db.m8a.2xlarge

The db.m8a.2xlarge instance is a General purpose instance with 4 vCPUs and 32GB of memory starting at $0.8596 per hour.

Pricing

$0.860

On Demand

N/A

1-Year Reserved

N/A

3-Year Reserved

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Family Sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)
db.m8a.large28
db.m8a.xlarge416
db.m8a.2xlarge432
db.m8a.4xlarge864
db.m8a.8xlarge16128
db.m8a.12xlarge24192
db.m8a.16xlarge64256
db.m8a.24xlarge96384
db.m8a.48xlarge192768

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Instance Variants

Variant
m8a
m8g
m8gd
m8i

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Instance Details

ComputeValue
vCPUs8
Memory (GiB)32
Physical Processor5th Generation AMD EPYC
CPU Architecturex86
StorageValue
EBS Optimized
true
Max Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS10000
Max Throughput (MB/s) on EBS1250
Max I/O operations/second IOPS40000
Baseline Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS2500
Baseline Throughput (MB/s) on EBS312.5
Baseline I/O operations/second IOPS12000
NetworkingValue
Network Performance (Gibps)Up to 15000 Mbps
AmazonValue
Generation
current
Instance Typedb.m8a.2xlarge
FamilyGeneral purpose
NameM8A Double Extra Large
Normalization Factor16
Database EnginesValue
MariaDB10.5 - 12.3
MySQL8.4
PostgreSQL14 - 18
SQL Server Enterprise2017 - 2022
SQL Server Standard2017 - 2022
SQL Server Web2017 - 2022
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