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The m8gd.medium is a general purpose instance in the m8gd family with 1 vCPU and 4 GiB of memory on AWS Graviton4 (Arm). It costs $42.09 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 19 regions.
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Apr 2025
First listed in the AWS price list archive
The list price has never changed in us-east-1 since then.
Archive dates are the month of the AWS price list version that first carried the price.
Last moved 2 h ago, 24 Oct 2026 −0.6%
Steady: the cheapest zone stayed within 2% over 30 days.
Tracked since 1 Mar 2026, read every few minutes.
| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 9cpu | $4.68 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 3cpu | $14.03 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 1cpu | $42.09 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 0 | — |
Node share from GKE's published kube-reserved formula plus a 100 MiB eviction threshold; EKS and AKS keep similar amounts. DaemonSets take more on top. At most 110 pods per node, the kubelet default.
First year, 3 instances
Spot saves $1,097 a year
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not.
Bars are on-demand per hour; the teal mark is spot. Price per vCPU is the same at every size, so pick the size that fits.
0.9g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
0.7 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 22× the cleanest.
| $27.99 | $6.50 | 77% | 2 | |
| $42.09 | $4.23 | 90% | 1 | |
| $42.09 | $5.62 | 87% | 1 | |
| $42.09 | $11.61 | 72% | 1 | |
| $44.19 | $11.39 | 74% | 1 | |
| $44.65 | $13.07 | 71% | 0 | |
| $44.71 | $5.26 | 88% | 0 | |
| $46.94 | $12.26 | 74% | 1 |
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List prices from AWS in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. AWS pricing page