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m8a.8xlarge pricing and specs in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

32 vCPU · 128 GiB · 15 Gigabit · AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor

$2.0490/hour on-demand · $1,496/month (Linux, Shared)

Pricing by os (hourly, USD, Shared)

OptionLinuxWindowsRHELSUSE
On-Demand$2.0490$3.5210$2.3946$2.1740
Spot$0.5683$1.6978
1y Compute SP NU$1.5124$2.9844$1.8580$1.5723
3y Compute SP NU$1.0298$2.5018$1.3754$1.0838
1y EC2 SP NU$1.3532$2.8251$1.6987$1.4130
3y EC2 SP NU$0.9317$2.4037$1.2773$0.9857

Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): ap-south-1a $0.5848 · ap-south-1b $0.5683 · ap-south-1c $0.5516

Newer generations of the same size

Same family letter and size in a newer generation, ranked by price. “vCPU per $” uses vCPU as the performance proxy — newer chips usually add more, so it is a floor.

Graviton-eligible → m8g.8xlarge (-50%)
Type$/hPrice ΔvCPU per $ ΔSaves / mo
m8g.8xlarge Graviton arch change$1.0266-50%+100%$746
m8gd.8xlarge Graviton arch change$1.2269-40%+67%$600
m8i-flex.8xlarge$1.6926-17%+21%$260
m8i.8xlarge$1.7816-13%+15%$195
m8id.8xlarge$2.2546+10%-9%$-150

Cheapest regions for m8a.8xlarge

RegionOn-Demand $/hvs ap-south-1Saves / mo
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$1.9475-5%$74
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$1.9475-5%$74
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$1.9475-5%$74
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$2.0488-0.0%$0
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$2.0490current
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$2.1706+6%$-89

Caveat: instance price is only part of the bill. Cross-region and internet data transfer, latency to your users, data-residency rules and service availability can outweigh a few percent on compute.

Price history (ap-south-1)

Daily snapshots since the catalog started tracking this type; a row is added whenever a headline price changes.

DateOD LinuxOD Windows1y RI3y RISpot p50
2026-09-22$2.0490$3.5210$0.5683

All attributes

vCPU
32
Cores / threads per core
32 / 1
Memory
128 GiB
Memory per vCPU
4.00 GiB
Processor
AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor
Architecture
x86_64
Sustained clock
4.5 GHz
Hypervisor
nitro
Generation
Current
Burstable
No
Bare metal
No
Free tier eligible
No
Network performance
15 Gigabit
Network baseline / burst
15.0 / 15.0 Gbps
Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
10 × 40
IPv6 / ENA / EFA
IPv6 / ENA / —
EBS optimized
Yes
EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
10000 / 10000 Mbps
EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
40,000 / 40000
EBS NVMe
required
Instance storage
EBS only
GPU
Placement groups
cluster, partition, spread
Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
Yes / Yes
Dedicated hosts
Supported
Boot modes
legacy-bios, uefi
Spot supported
Yes

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