c7a.medium vs m8gn.medium

Instance Typec7a.mediumm8gn.medium
Instance FamilyCompute optimizedGeneral purpose
DetailsHigh-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
7 – Generation
a – AMD processor
medium – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
medium – Size
vCPUs11
Memory2 GiB4 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R14 ProcessorAWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.7 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc7a.12xlarge, c7a.16xlarge, c7a.24xlarge, c7a.2xlarge, c7a.32xlarge, c7a.48xlarge, c7a.4xlarge, c7a.8xlarge, c7a.large, c7a.medium, c7a.metal-48xl, c7a.xlargem8gn.12xlarge, m8gn.16xlarge, m8gn.24xlarge, m8gn.2xlarge, m8gn.48xlarge, m8gn.4xlarge, m8gn.8xlarge, m8gn.large, m8gn.medium, m8gn.metal-24xl, m8gn.metal-48xl, m8gn.xlarge
Generationsc7a.medium, c8a.medium
Variantsc7g.medium, c7gd.medium, c7gn.mediumm8a.medium, m8azn.medium, m8g.medium, m8gb.medium, m8gd.medium
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 10000 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth325 Mbps760 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput40.625 Mbps95 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance2500 IOPS2500 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 12500 MegabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces22
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface44
IPv6 Addresses per Interface44
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.33x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c7a.medium
m8gn.medium
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a0.0813
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.0549n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.0551n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.0551n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.0586n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.0592n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.0610n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.0640n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.0646n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.0513n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.05130.0728
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.05130.0728
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