c7i-flex.12xlarge vs m8gn.12xlarge

Instance Typec7i-flex.12xlargem8gn.12xlarge
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
i – Intel processor
flex – Flex instance
12xlarge – Size
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
12xlarge – Size
vCPUs4848
Memory96 GiB192 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64arm64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)AWS Graviton4 Processor
Clock Speed3.2 GHz2.8 GHz
Threads Per Core21
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesc7i-flex.12xlarge, c7i-flex.16xlarge, c7i-flex.2xlarge, c7i-flex.4xlarge, c7i-flex.8xlarge, c7i-flex.large, c7i-flex.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
Generationsc7i-flex.12xlarge, c8i-flex.12xlarge
Variantsc7a.12xlarge, c7g.12xlarge, c7gd.12xlarge, c7gn.12xlarge, c7i.12xlargem8a.12xlarge, m8azn.12xlarge, m8g.12xlarge, m8gb.12xlarge, m8gd.12xlarge, m8i-flex.12xlarge, m8i.12xlarge, m8ib.12xlarge, m8id.12xlarge, m8idb.12xlarge, m8idn.12xlarge, m8in.12xlarge, m8ine.12xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 15000 MBps30000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth7500 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput937.5 Mbps3750 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance30000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance60000 IOPS120000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth15000 Mbps30000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1875 Mbps3750 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 18750 Megabit150 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces812
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnoyes
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.55x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
c7i-flex.12xlarge
m8gn.12xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)1.9943n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)2.0349n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)1.9943n/a
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a3.9029
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)2.0349n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)2.2982n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)2.3054n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)2.3222n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.3460n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)2.3466n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)2.4179n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)2.4179n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)2.4180n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)2.4420n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)2.4454n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)2.0349n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)2.5376n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)2.5546n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)2.5616n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)2.5855n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)2.6573n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)2.7290n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)2.7902n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)3.1361n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)2.0349n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)2.0350n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)2.1366n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)2.1785n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)2.1828n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)2.1833n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)2.2264n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)n/a3.4920
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a3.4920
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