a1.2xlarge vs m8g.2xlarge

Instance Typea1.2xlargem8g.2xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments.

a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor
1 – Generation
2xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
2xlarge – Size
vCPUs88
Memory16 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargem8g.12xlarge, m8g.16xlarge, m8g.24xlarge, m8g.2xlarge, m8g.48xlarge, m8g.4xlarge, m8g.8xlarge, m8g.large, m8g.medium, m8g.metal-24xl, m8g.metal-48xl, m8g.xlarge
Generationsm6g.2xlarge, m7g.2xlarge, m8g.2xlarge, m9g.2xlarge
Variantsm8a.2xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gd.2xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8i-flex.2xlarge, m8i.2xlarge, m8ib.2xlarge, m8id.2xlarge, m8idb.2xlarge, m8idn.2xlarge, m8in.2xlarge, m8ine.2xlarge
RDSdb.m8g.2xlarge
OpenSearchm8g.2xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 10240 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth1750 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput218.75 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance10000 IOPS12000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 15 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.86x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.2xlarge
m8g.2xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.2566
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.20400.2566
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.20400.3590
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.4152
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.4189
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.4189
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.4189
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.4302
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.4402
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.4414
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.4488
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.4488
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.4488
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.23040.3590
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.4488
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.4523
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.4525
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.4638
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.4638
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.4731
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.4750
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.4937
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.4937
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.5722
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.23280.3815
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.23520.3815
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.25680.3815
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.26640.3999
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.4002
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.4002
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.4002
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.2040n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.20400.3590
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