m6g.8xlarge vs d2.8xlarge

Instance Typem6g.8xlarged2.8xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
8xlarge – Size
Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) data warehousing, MapReduce/Hadoop computing, distributed/file network systems, and log/data-processing applications.

d – Disk / storage optimized
2 – Generation
8xlarge – Size
vCPUs3236
Memory128 GiB244 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton2 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm6g.12xlarge, m6g.16xlarge, m6g.2xlarge, m6g.4xlarge, m6g.8xlarge, m6g.large, m6g.medium, m6g.metal, m6g.xlarged2.2xlarge, d2.4xlarge, d2.8xlarge, d2.xlarge
Generationsm6g.8xlarge, m7g.8xlarge, m8g.8xlarge, m9g.8xlarged2.8xlarge, d3.8xlarge
Variantsm6a.8xlarge, m6gd.8xlarge, m6i.8xlarge, m6id.8xlarge, m6idn.8xlarge, m6in.8xlarge
SageMakerml.m6g.8xlarge
RDSdb.m6g.8xlarge
OpenSearchm6g.8xlarge.search
ElastiCachecache.m6g.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units116
Instance StorageEBS only24 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput9000 MBps4000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth9500 Mbps4000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput1187.5 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance40000 IOPS32000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance40000 IOPS32000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth9500 Mbps4000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput1187.5 Mbps500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance12 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces88
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x4.46x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
m6g.8xlarge
d2.8xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)0.8096n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.8096n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)1.23205.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)1.37606.6120
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)1.42086.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)1.42566.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)1.43366.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)1.43366.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)1.44006.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)1.44486.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)1.47206.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)1.50407.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)1.50407.6560
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)1.23205.8800
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)1.5136n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)1.5360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)1.5360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)1.5360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)1.5360n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)1.5488n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)1.5488n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)1.5840n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)1.5872n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)1.6128n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)1.29386.0720
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)1.6192n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)1.6256n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)1.6960n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)1.9584n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)1.30566.1740
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)1.30566.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)1.31206.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)1.36966.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)1.36966.3520
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)1.37606.4680
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a5.5200
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)1.23205.5200
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a5.5200
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