m8gb.8xlarge vs d2.8xlarge

Instance Typem8gb.8xlarged2.8xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsSmall to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
8 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
b – EBS optimized
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 Graviton4 ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
Clock Speed2.8 GHz2.4 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesm8gb.12xlarge, m8gb.16xlarge, m8gb.24xlarge, m8gb.2xlarge, m8gb.48xlarge, m8gb.4xlarge, m8gb.8xlarge, m8gb.large, m8gb.medium, m8gb.metal-24xl, m8gb.metal-48xl, m8gb.xlarged2.2xlarge, d2.4xlarge, d2.8xlarge, d2.xlarge
Generationsd2.8xlarge, d3.8xlarge
Variantsm8a.8xlarge, m8g.8xlarge, m8gd.8xlarge, m8gn.8xlarge, m8i-flex.8xlarge, m8i.8xlarge, m8ib.8xlarge, m8id.8xlarge, m8idb.8xlarge, m8idn.8xlarge, m8in.8xlarge, m8ine.8xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationyesno
EC2 Compute Units116
Instance StorageEBS only24 x 2000 HDD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredunsupported
Dedicated Throughput50000 MBps4000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth50000 Mbps4000 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput6250 Mbps500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance240000 IOPS32000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance240000 IOPS32000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth50000 Mbps4000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput6250 Mbps500 Mbps
Networking
Networking Performance66.667 Gigabit10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces108
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Addresses per Interface3030
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportyesno
ENA SRD Supportyesno
Avg Price Diff1.00x2.64x

Regional Prices

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Geography
Region
m8gb.8xlarge
d2.8xlarge
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)2.6019n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)n/a5.5840
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a6.6120
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a6.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a6.6240
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a6.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a6.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a6.7520
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a6.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a6.9600
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a7.0000
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a7.6560
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)n/a5.8800
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)n/a6.0720
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)n/a6.1740
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)n/a6.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)n/a6.1760
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a6.2500
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a6.3520
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a6.4680
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)n/a5.5200
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)2.32805.5200
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)2.32805.5200
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