EC2 M8a instances land in AWS Asia Pacific Hyderabad
Amazon's AMD EPYC Turin-powered general-purpose instances are now available in a fourth Asia Pacific region.
Are EC2 M8a instances available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)?
Yes, as of July 22, 2026, Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. The general-purpose instances run on 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, formerly code-named Turin, and offer up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance compared to M7a instances.
What makes M8a different from M7a?
The headline improvement is memory bandwidth: M8a instances deliver 45% more than their M7a predecessors, which AWS says makes them well-suited to latency-sensitive workloads. That bandwidth increase compounds gains for specific workload types.
For developers running JVM-based applications, AWS reports M8a instances are up to 60% faster on the GroovyJVM benchmark. Teams running Apache Cassandra can expect up to 39% faster performance compared to M7a instances running the same benchmark.
Specifications at a glance
| Feature | M8a | vs. M7a |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) | — |
| Max frequency | 4.5 GHz | — |
| Performance improvement | Up to 30% higher | +30% |
| Price-performance | Up to 19% better | +19% |
| Memory bandwidth | Up to 45% more | +45% |
| GroovyJVM benchmark | Up to 60% faster | +60% |
| Cassandra benchmark | Up to 39% faster | +39% |
| Instance sizes | 12 (including 2 bare metal) | — |
| SAP certified | Yes | — |
| Nitro generation | 6th gen AWS Nitro Cards | — |
Who should consider migrating?
AWS positions M8a as a fit for financial applications, gaming, rendering, application servers, simulation modeling, mid-size data stores, development environments, and caching fleets. The SAP certification broadens the appeal for enterprise customers running SAP workloads in the Hyderabad region.
The availability of two bare metal sizes gives teams that need direct hardware access, or that run hypervisors of their own, the same generational performance gains without a virtualization layer.
Purchasing options
M8a instances in Hyderabad are available through three purchasing models: On-Demand, Spot, and Savings Plans. The Savings Plans option allows teams to commit to consistent usage in exchange for reduced rates, while Spot instances remain the lowest-cost path for interruption-tolerant workloads.
Customers can launch instances directly from the AWS Management Console.