m8a.large — Spot price, savings & interruption risk

Live view of what m8a.large actually costs on the AWS spot market and how likely AWS is to reclaim it. Data updated daily from public AWS spot price feeds.

Avg spot price (us-east-1)

$0.0462/hr

On-demand price

$0.1217/hr

Spot savings

74.8%

Interruption rate

>20%

Running one m8a.large on spot instead of on-demand saves about $66/month per instance at current prices.

Specifications

vCPU2
Memory8 GB
Architecturex86_64
NetworkUp to 12.5 Gigabit
GPUNo
Interruption rate (AWS Spot Advisor)~25%

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Prices are daily averages from public AWS spot price data (us-east-1) and can vary by availability zone. Interruption rates from the AWS Spot Advisor dataset.