m6a.8xlarge vs c7i.8xlarge

Instance Typem6a.8xlargec7i.8xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
6 – Generation
a – AMD processor
8xlarge – Size
High-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
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3232
Memory128 GiB64 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R13 ProcessorIntel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
Clock Speed3.6 GHz3.2 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm6a.12xlarge, m6a.16xlarge, m6a.24xlarge, m6a.2xlarge, m6a.32xlarge, m6a.48xlarge, m6a.4xlarge, m6a.8xlarge, m6a.large, m6a.metal, m6a.xlargec7i.12xlarge, c7i.16xlarge, c7i.24xlarge, c7i.2xlarge, c7i.48xlarge, c7i.4xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c7i.large, c7i.metal-24xl, c7i.metal-48xl, c7i.xlarge
Generationsm5a.8xlarge, m6a.8xlarge, m7a.8xlarge, m8a.8xlargec6i.8xlarge, c7i.8xlarge, c8i.8xlarge
Variantsm6g.8xlarge, m6gd.8xlarge, m6i.8xlarge, m6id.8xlarge, m6idn.8xlarge, m6in.8xlargec7a.8xlarge, c7g.8xlarge, c7gd.8xlarge, c7gn.8xlarge, c7i-flex.8xlarge
SageMakerml.m6a.8xlargeml.c7i.8xlarge
OpenSearchc7i.8xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughput6667 MBps10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth10000 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1250 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12500 Megabit12500 Megabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.08x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m6a.8xlarge
c7i.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.8888n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a1.3995
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.88881.4280
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)n/a1.3995
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.38241.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.72801.5624
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.72801.6088
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.78561.6128
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)2.20321.6179
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a1.6296
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a1.6464
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a1.6464
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a1.6968
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a1.6968
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a1.6968
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.38241.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a1.7136
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a1.7136
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a1.7160
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a1.7808
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a1.7926
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a1.7976
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a1.7976
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a1.8144
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a1.8648
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a1.8648
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.54081.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a1.9152
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a1.9581
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a2.2008
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.54081.4280
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.59841.4994
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.61281.5288
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.61281.5320
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.61281.5322
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.65601.5624
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.3824n/a
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